Quote Originally Posted by tocsin View Post
Try 20%-30%. That's the reality of it.

Its gotten to a point where SE doesn't want to significantly damage the RMT market, because they are significant contributors to their account numbers. of those "4 million registered accounts", it is estimated that over 40% of them are RMT based. out of the 750k actual subscribers that this game currently has, how many of them do you think are current RMT bots? 200k? 300k? that's a big chunk..
Whoa now, I don't think SE is that bad yet.

Is there a lot of bots? Yes, but I severely doubt that the number of bots have reached a point that SE is receiving a significant profit from bot accounts. All the tells can be done with one or two accounts so long as they can continue to create more characters. And although I see farm bots and when I do I get supremely annoyed, I don't think they make up even 5% of the characters that I see.

What I believe is happening is just SE not placing as much of a priority as they should to handle the RMT issue. They need to stop only dealing with the issue manually, and start giving the players more powers to deal with the tell spam, as well as make it easier for the players to report the bots.

If we could report easier, more people would bother doing it, making it easier for SE to spot the accounts that need to be taken care of. If we could filter our own tells and friend invites, the accounts that haven't been banned yet can be easily ignored.