Quote Originally Posted by xbahax92 View Post
This is a question for all the forum experts here; a serious one, please be kind.

Aren't bots actually a reasonable factor for world congestion?
I was wondering if they aren't occupying space in the worlds.

Also what about trial accounts?
Why not just simply disable the feature until the congestion has cooled off?
Bots likely do have some impact since they're attempting to log in as well. I don't know the numbers of them in any way, but I assume the overall fraction of "players" that are bots is small. Even though they'll be active the entire time they're in the game, I don't see them having a mathematically significant impact on concurrent player use of the servers.

My understanding of the other situation is paying subscribers get preference over free trial players when logging in. With the volume of subscribers trying to get in, I wouldn't be surprised if free trial players are SOL and can't get in at all.