[SD]LadyOphelia wrote:Its funny how this thread is so very different then most of the ones I've read here about banning bots. Usually it ends in a flame war and the topic is quickly locked or removed, other times everyone generally agrees that the reason JM won't ban is because of the silk buying issue and that JM would lose money.
I run a legit guild and union, so when I catch a bot I hear a lot of excuses and believe it or not most of the time its because the person botting can't afford to buy silk for GT or pets, some countries still have no way of being able to pay for silk all together. And of course there are those who only desire to be lvl 80 and continue to buy gold supporting gold bots and town spammers, just so they can instantly gratify their high ego and "pwn all"... silly kids.
Before the euro update, there was a post on the official forums asking a series of questions regarding the games problems to which MD responded to with the following:
I. SERVERS ARE FULL
This is a good thing. Whether the users playing are following the rules or not does not matter, they are playing and keeping the game servers full, which is what we want. We are not all here to judge users based on there actions, but we will moderate and keep users following the rules like always, but we can not just judge all users and ban them day 1 when the servers are full for someone elses convenience. Not everyone can play at once but we are working on improving the server quality and limit constantly, but remember there will always be times when it will be hard to connect or to laggy to play.
V. PLAYER BOTS
We are working on balancing the amount of users taking advantage of Bot programs in game on top of our monthly Bot bans.
VIII. GMs
Our GMs go in game to take care of the Bots and check for in game issues within the community. We are there and working hard for you, sorry we have not been visible as much as users wanted, but hopefully we can change that in the future.
IX. SILK
Silk is a necessity to keep the game running and we will continue to improve the quality of the game to satisfy users who wish to support SRO. Hopefully we can change your mind sometime down the road.
This is just a portion of what was said, the other stuff wasn't really relevant to this topic. I think fly hit the nail on the head.. the GM's are lazy and don't want to bring on any extra work for themselves and why would they if corporate weren't pushing the issue either?
XD ive been looking for that thread were MD said that.
people were so pissed.
did she delete her "mistake"
meh i dont care.
i just think fly is cool, he seems 2 be "real" you get it?
like truly "real"
most people when they see a topic like this go
FAIL
FAIl
or this will nvr work
or BF will say same bs.
then fly will swoop in and pwn every1.
then others will reinforce what fly said.
shutting up all the closet botters.
the botters ive met dont buy silk.
+ gold bots dont buy silk.
and for every bot player there are like 3000000 gold bots
for every normal player there are 300000000000 gold bots.
there are more legits than player bots, BUT
there are more gold bots that legits.
and because of the gold bots people seem 2 believe every1
has 2 bot.
idc i just wanted 2 see srf's reaction... which this time was pretty good.
kudos 2 ya srf