Yup I smell another Blinkergate here!!! Time for a nerf!!!
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SE would lose sooooo many mule subscription fees over Hakuryu, way worse than cruor.
The ironic thing is SE's biggest problem in this game (RMT/Fishbots etc.) must be paying SE a fair bit of money in subscriptions and mules etc and as we all know with SE and any other major company - money > everything. Considering how many RMT we hear about or see everyday and how many blatantly RMT mules we see going around topped off with bots and mules for holding their fished items etc, I would say around 1/6th-1/4 of SE's subscription fees come from these guys. SE aren't gonna just cut all that profit, only scare them away from it which doesn't really work. I agree it's a shame though.
i know a few people who pay for 2+ mules just for hak fishing. crazy rly
Do you have numbers? I really don't think they lost as much as people believe, and I think they'd lose significantly less with this. With cruor, everyone was doing it, botting on the other hand is not very common, despite how it may seem to certain parts of the community that are more accustomed to it. 30 bots in Beauc per server? SE wouldn't even notice the dent in their subscription income, even if they would all go, which I think is also unlikely.
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There are bots everywhere not just beaucedine and a fair amount of them tbh. Not as much as genuine players but still a significant amount in terms of profit. Also nobody will produce numbers unless they work for SE because they don't give out anything on player-base loses/gains and probably never will. In fact I doubt any company would really do that, it's kinda like advertising your game as a bad game.
Instead of bitching make money off them. Those guys are making 1mil on average per day. (2mil is rare, Haku fishing is not just turn on bot and AFK) They are generally the players buying up plates and currency at high prices. Find one of them and sell to them directly. The gil generated is being put right back into the economy and used to buy the items the rest of us are selling.
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