Easing the bot flooding

[Rinuko]

Free time no longer expires though. They can now play as long they want, just only level to a certain level, lv30 iirc

[LalaRu]

Free time no longer expires though

Oh, well, good for who wanna take his time to feel the game, but at least bots can stay and pester only their servers.v

I'm afraid that a large amount of bots doesn't actually come from free-trial accounts, but regular players that simply don't feel like playing along with the classic reward baiting design of MMOs. Instead of forcing themselves to the boring grind to get a reward, they use bots to reap the rewards while effectively skipping the grind.

Hence why SE is rather hesitant to just ban them. They are paying customers and they don't want to lose the revenue. The free trial is already extremely limited as is.

I see SE is banning accounts in number of thousands per week, will not think people not banned just because have an active sub. My assumption is bots coming most from free accounts than paying subs. But the real numbers are only in SE's hands and I guess they will not deliver to us these stats.

[BillyKaplan]

Oh, well, good for who wanna take his time to feel the game, but at least bots can stay and pester only their servers.

And hinder the new players whose fresh gaming experience will be filled with only those bots who'll continue to multiply in that newbie server. Also not a good idea.