I can agree with what you just mentioned, but ultimately this is a significant blow to how bots make their income and prevent even more mats farmed by bots from entering the market.
Supposedly now with this change…
bots can only sell the stones they pick up
vs
before where bots can sell the mats they pick up(a small portion of how their gold is made) + exchange via vendor for even more mats to sell for gold (significant portion of where the gold is made from my own assumptions)
I like this change very much, will definitely help with bots flooding the market from doing infinite Chaos Dungeons, and in return make it harder to farm sellable gold.
Bots exist in every game F2P or P2P, its a long and painful battle, but this is the first of many steps in the right direction without punishing players.
Player botting is the 2nd step and its really easy to track to be honest.
Well, not necessarily. For example I always run three chaos dungeons daily on my main and keep around 2k shards in case I get REALLY short on gold. I’d just buy some honing items and sell them on the market for a quick buck if needed. I’ll just have to pay closer attention to my gold and limit my rage honing sprees a little bit, but since it should kinda fix the gold situation it’ll probably be a net posivite anyway.
As a purely f2p player, this is a huge blow and basically removing 3-4 days of gameplay since that is how long it takes to farm out the vendor to 1k shards/item (not including guarding or destruction) to get some gold for honeing.
So many years waiting for a good game only to get to play it for 2-3 month(since release) but they always managed to fuck over the small guy and the “smart people” just keep bending over and taking it. Well im out, lost ark will be uninstalled. No point in playing when i cant get gold for using my bound materials for honeing.
I farm together 3k gold from chaos per week to use my bound materials, have you read anything that has been previously written?
Dont reply if you haven nothing else to say than to cry “gold farmer”, i think they are more efficient than 3k gold/week.
What they need to do is hire in-game GM’s that can go on “bot ban waves”, that would actually do something, bots are just gonna switch to the next way to farm gold, changing the chaos vendor wont matter.