Aion: Gold Farmers

[Dachartach]

Yes, we all see them running around. there was an interesting article at MMORPG.com, with several links to other articles containing information about the whole thing. I found the mikeyee.com article quite informative.




lad, i don't know where ya been, but i see ya won first prize!

[Takzenen]

Hopefully they do something soon, but historically they've been fairly lax on farmers/bots

[Sarc]

the West had one choice, Lame Guard vs. Bots & Farmers

nuff said, we dont put up with that communist uuber security here! Bots 4ever!

[Takzenen]

Scott Jennings has been hired by NCSoft to combat the problem;
Die Bots

[Dachartach]

Right, and he's the one who wrote that "Real Money, Real Problems" article I mentioned on MMORPG. There are also quite a few other articles he links to there, and they are chock-full of information regarding the issue.

It really comes down to the end user side: if there were no demand for it, the supply would eventually dry out. Blame the people who buy in game currency for creating the market. At least the botters and gold spammers are driving prices down on many items. It's bad for sellers, sure, but good for buyers. I just have to wait until my level 37 stigmas drop below 8 million fucking kinah. Madness.






MADNESS? THIS! IS! SPARTA!

[Maeve]

I do hope they do something about the bots particularly. It was another huge turn off for the game for me. When I did decide to play, if there wasn't anything really going on and I wanted to go grind mobs, the areas were completely full of bots. Being a templar, it was easy for the glads to steal my mobs. Something else they need to fix.

[Dachartach]

There's a lot they need to fix, always. It's an online game. It's a matter of triage, really; they have limited resources of time, talent, funds to use on ever expanding problems. Their biggest project was implementation of the new patch. Now that it's out of the way, maybe they can get to some of the bot smashing that is required.





HULK SMASH!