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Originally Posted by arkhaal  About bots/goldfarmers, there will be a full team of GM dedicated to this problems, there will probably be tools available to them, and the design of aion is being changed for avoiding this. |
It would only take *ONE* GM with a will and an IQ over 90 to vastly relieve this problem. If you get twenty petitions per day saying, "There's a Troll Hunter named Xianwang in Felstone Field that's painfully obviously a bot", that GM could spend 30 seconds observing this character, then perma-ban that account/IP. Of course, in WoW this same situation would involve their "team" investigating the accumulated 4,718 petitions that said the exact same thing about the exact same character, then maybe banning that account 4-5 months later. Aion would have a lot more loyal customers if they actually exhibited some commitment to hiring this one GM.
Edit: Hell, hire me for this GM job. You'd have to quadruple my current income to make me live anywhere near a big city, but I guarantee you the bots, hackers, gold sellers, and gold buyers would disappear from your game within a week if I had the right tools to work with. A piece of "Wool Cloth" sells on the AH for 1000g? Buyer and seller fucking *BANNED*, etc. That would be a fun job. I'd even handle the customer service bitching replies to the banned assholes myself! Within a month, your game would have a reputation as a refuge of sanity and good, honest gaming, and you'd triple your subscription base.
