The bot problem is rising and real.

[Dustytome]

Card is used to buy account time, it is charged back, and account goes banned automatically, without even the need to run a bot over it.

I don't think a resource so (illegally) valuable as a valid (stolen) credit card is being wasted to just create a bot on an online game. Whoever gets that resource will use it for more profitable uses imho.

All they buy up is the starter editions knowing the account isn't likely to last beyond that 30 day time limit that comes with it. They can buy and use them without being traced. They then get money (and likely some free personal information they can sell off) from the customer that is unlikely to be connected to the original fraud in any meaningful way. They do the same thing with those cheap mogstation items on ebay that SE has warned you can be banned for claiming. SE would need to work with law enforcement to pinpoint the buyers and then law enforcement would need to trace where the money is going from there, assuming they can get all the payment system/countries the money is filtering through to cooperate.