How to stop botters and RMT
" OMG, hurt? WHICH players would be hurt? Free loaders? For f*** sake, an ARPG gets absolutely nothing from the free loaders, this is not a MOBA, this is not a FPS , this is not a MMO or a CCG. ARPGs don't give a crap about amount player population, the only thing a game like Path of Exile should care is spending players, since they're the ones who make the game still moving,. I'm tired of reading this post of people saying, they should ban accounts, HELLOOOOOO it's what they have been doing since the begining, and is clearly NOT WORKING. The market is going worse and worse every league, but hey! Don't make a one payment rule to barrier the botters because It will make the free loaders go, better keep with the ban policy that botters don't give a shit about because they just create a new fresh account to keep botting... So you guys are saying that better keep the free loaders than the paying players (the ones making this game go). Because let's be clear here, if the broken market keeps going, more and more players will not spend a cent on this game and in time, leaving It. |
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" Wouldn't change shit, $5 is nothing compared to the level of money most of the bots and RMT make. You have to see this in perspective. Some of the RMT bots have 1000000000 exalted orbs in their stash, charging $5 would do nothing but gate the game away from a huge portion of the community |
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I don't believe GGG's development model or release quality would support a pay-to-play model. They benefit from using a F2P model by being able to release half-broken leagues and allowing us to beta test them and they are able to live with mass player drop off. If players were demanding refunds or cancelling accounts every league when they were disappointed with the quality or the mechanics it would be detrimental to GGG's future. More so than bots I would guess, but that is just speculation.
So basically, they'd have to change a lot more than just their business model. Players would be far less tolerant if they were paying for the game. " As for an ARPG not needing "freeloaders" I completely disagree, at least in POE's case. The community is made up of everyone who plays the game. Drop the "freeloaders" and you cut concurrent players by a significant amount, making the game feel even emptier, making trade even more laborious, etc. I don't think you thought that through. Edit: BTW, what does "freeloader" even mean in this case? I mean, if I only bought my Gold supporter pack and never spent another dime on the game, would I still be considered a "supporter"? That was 5 years ago. Surely by now I'd be a "freeloader", right? If you are talking about people who have never spent any money on the game then maybe you are right. I don't know how many of those players there are though. POE Serenity Prayer: GGG, grant me the serenity to accept the RNG I cannot change, the courage to challenge any unbalanced content, and the wisdom to avoid the forums. Mad: "Oh, it's simple and if you insist... I just think you're a dick. That's all." QFT: 4TRY4C&4NO Последняя редакция: Phaeded#4782. Время: 2 окт. 2018 г., 19:00:29
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