Lost_Intelligence

November 24, 2009 at 8:34am

I had played for a while but like with all other MMO's I played I got bored real quick.

If you had gone to Aion's forums (all MMO forums are dreadful and full of very little useful information and and over abundance of whining), you would have seen forums full of posts: "I'm quitting, spam is ridiculous" or "botters are out of control, I quit".  There where hundreds of these types of posts and it was believed by many conspiracist that NCSoft was supporting or even sponsoring these bots.

This is an excellent step that NCSoft has taken, although after two months I'm curious if it may be a little too late.  Then, there is also the fact of preventing new accounts from coming back in.  They had some controls in place which worked for the spam - log in, sit for about 3-5 minutes blocking spam, then go about your way.  This was the bandaid fix for the problem.

16,000 people ruining a game that had (if I remember correctly) about 500,000 pre-orders.  A small fraction of the user base.

JonnyNYK

November 24, 2009 at 8:24am

Or Maybe...just maybe! they are banning the bad eggs to make a better environment for the people who like to legimately play so that when those people notice cheaters day after day, they won't get upset and eventually end Their subscription. I'm pretty sure Those are the people that they don't want to lose. Your rational, although may hold weight, hints you may be doing some of the same thing in another MMO...then again, I think its up to NCSoft to work on a better way to proactively stop this from occuring already. This is a new game and those many people already cheat? I think some re-coding may need to be done.