Do you feel that you have the "right" to AFK bot, or take other necessary measures?

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But everyone afk botting is taking up a slot on the server. They are literally making an existing problem worse.

If the AFK botters were making the existing problem worse you would see long queues during non peak hours, which does not happen. The number of players that are doing this would not make a significant enough difference in the grand scheme of things because the number of people trying to play during peak hours is simply too massive. Do they make an existing problem worse, probably but it is likely not to the extent that people believe it to be. Other wise you would be seeing issues during non peak hours if this was making a significant difference.

If you base the numbers on what you can find online, the number of players that play per day is about 3.5 million. The number of players subscribed is almost 30 million. Now assuming the servers are all at max capacity 24/7 the fault lies in the fact that the server space was never capable of supporting all subscribers before the exodus or after the exodus. I would say the game supports roughly 6-7 million player capacity for it to be capped 24/7 which again is still not enough space to support the full subscription base before or after the exodus. Fortunately the servers are not at max capacity 24/7 they typically reach max capacity from around 2:30pm EST(11:30am PST) until about 12:30am PST(3:30am EST). You can easily log in outside that window of time which shows that AFKers, are not significant enough to prevent players from playing.

You can make this same arguement about free trial players that log on in the morning and may still be playing during peak hours that they are taking up a slot for you to play. If they were booted off the server once peak hours hit, there would not be any not noticeable difference. Sadly that is where the witch hunt started was stopping all free trial players.

Witch hunting and pointing fingers will not change that the servers have not been able to support the number of players that are subscribed to the game.