For example, everyone has to input their 6 digit pin number. You guys at NcSoft can't prevent it but you can do a lot better job of solving this issue and lower the amount of botting by half. Someone has to program the software to make sure its automated register friendly. They lose nothing from getting ban on F2P games compare to P2P games. So if bot spammer was banned on these games they will just lose profit that's why you see more bot spammers on free to play games. When it comes to Pay to play games like WoW, FFXIV, GW2, the reason you don't see as much gold sellers and bots is because the actual game cost $25(On sale)-$60 and than the monthly membership $15 - 20 a month.
There is a issue with this as well because the maker of these scripts/third party programs updates faster than the Anti hack shield.įree to play games in all honest has very difficult time handling these bot spammers. So the only way they can really stop these bot spammers, is having the anti hack shield detect the script or third party program that the bot users are using.
IP banning may cause someone else some issues when it comes to playing. The issue about IP ban is that people can use VPN, and other methods to change their IP.
Since this game is Free to Play, they can just constantly just make a new account over and over. They do ban these bot spammers, but the issue is its a account ban.