I've played Lineage 2 for 2 years and more now, and can say these farmers (people who "play" the game to earn ingame currency, adena, and sell them online. Usually using 3rd party programs that automate their actions), we know they exist in other games in the same category (MMORPG - Massive Online Role Playing Game), but in this game the farmers perform their illegal actions openly, and at times openly admitting it.
I have seen friends get banned for doing things that he did not know was punishable by a pernament ban, by running away from monsters and into a town it is considered an exploit by NCSoft (note: 70% of the town is populated by farmers with stores setup, and the monsters have a chance of killing people in town and dropping items)
Then I have seen totally illegitimate players openly admit that they use 3rd party programs to get the max level of the game and sell adena online.
Then there is the "army" of bots (3rd party program automated characters), which I can estimate to about 60% of the server's population.
Reporting these bots, not only result in an automated response by a Game Master (GM), but a rather lengthy explaination that they need to process these complaints accordingly. I have reported bots that have never been banned and it's been 6 months, they usually do eventually get banned, but only after the farmers have earned ALOT more real money than they spend on buying accounts.
On the contrary, many frustrated players in the game who decide to cheat the same way as these farmers do, get banned in days. (note: I did not get banned even once, the information I gave is there for comparison purposes only)
I am here to accuse NCSoft of ignoring the massive number of farmers for their own revenue gains, they goad their players into believing their lies but behind the scenes are actually going against the players. WE paid a monthly subscription for service, not to be patronised by the GMs and stabbed in the back at the same time. NCSoft is obviously ignoring the wrong-doings of people who give them more revenue (1 person can own up to 45 accounts and manage all of them using 3rd party programs)
Jason
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
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