Can I just point out that, based on the figures delivered at an insider session during RuneFest in 2011, most of these accounts are proooobably botting accounts?
"New botting accounts created every day – 100,000 – 200,000
Gold-farming accounts banned on bot-nuking day – 1,500,000
Accounts being banned per minute right now * 9,000
Gold farming accounts banned since Tuesday – 7,700,000
Accounts created from China and Korea per week – Old: 173,000, New: 953
Decrease in player activity since bot-nuking day – 60%
Banned accounts that were paid members – 10%
Bots estimated to have been rendered ineffective – 98%"
- LoreHound article
Good job, guys! you just celebrated the creation of a crap ton of botting accounts being created! You keep telling us that you're against botting, but that's not the image that this gives.
Anyways, you keep saying that you have over 200,000,000 "players since launch." You do not have 200,000,000 players since launch. You have 200,000,000 accounts created since launch, of which, a huge proportion are quite likely botting accounts. Many, many accounts have been made by single players, so, quite frankly, that label that you give on the 200,000,000 figure is complete BS. And you banned about 5% of those accounts during the bot-nuke alone.
It's stupid little stunts like these that give you an untrustworthy image, and eventually people catch on. Remember that whole "honesty is the best policy" thing? Why don't you try that for once?
27-Jul-2012 20:00:23
