Imagine doing this around the holidays, lmao
SE is so hard to read, I swear to god. Sometimes they'll cut down on the cash shop features or straight up stop selling the game and cite the game's long term health as a reason for it. And then other times in the middle of a content drought they'll release a mount or something in the cash shop and charge like 30 dollars for it instead of just implementing it into the game as content, or they'll put out some bugged outfit for 22 dollars, etc.

Basically sometimes it feels like they hate money, but other times it feels like they're milking this game and its player base's good will like an endless cash cow. I genuinely can't figure them out. Imagine having this problem for years but picking the holidays to decide to finally do something about it, and then the solution doesn't even stop the RMTers (and you recognize and acknowledge this) lol.

On another note, banning the bots/RMTers won't do anything. They just make a new account that stays active for months and generates loads of profit. You've gotta go after the customers, because they have way more to lose and can't gain it back easily since they'd rather pay others to cheat for them than cheat directly themselves. Once potential buyers see that there's an actual risk involved, they'll stop buying and the revenue for RMT-folk dries up. No idea why they focus on banning one side of the RMT chain but not the other.