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Bot/explot patch
Athisar
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in Neverwinter
Today a patch went live that addressed a major exploit (being able to guarantee certain very high value things from RNG drops that could be sold on AH) and one which has caused a bit of an uproar - removal of leadership from Gateway, the web interface.
The Gateway change has upset people because it was one of the few legitimate ways to earn Astral Diamonds without buying Zen and exchanging them. The devs say that bots were destroying the economy by running leadership farms, which is fair enough - but this change will drastically affect legitimate players, while bots can be adjusted to do these things in game rather than on gateway.
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The game had some good smooth combat, but the people running it are morons. The only way to advance at a snail pace, is to spend a little money and level up leadership-toons, with a browser, checking it every 4 hours or so through the day. Now they've turned that off. Bots in this game make around 5% more AD on max leadership toons over legit browser-users. (who cares?! It's irrelevant considering it takes 8 months or so to get legendary stuff).
The big effect of this change is in the 'leveling-up' process. It takes around 3 months to get a leadership toon to max, avoiding dead time using the browser interface. Without that interface, people who work and can't hit it thru the day, that process will go up to 6-8 months. In the meantime, botters will continue to level up leadership toons within game, unaffected. SO this 'change' will just increase the distance between botters and legit players.
With this change, (in combination with the mod-6 disaster)... I expect the population to decline even more over the next 2-4 months...
It is a pain that you can go to several areas (Blacklake, Neverdeath, etc) and see obvious bots at any time of the day, every day, and nothing is ever done about it. Looking at AH you will see stacks of 99 refinement stones going on for pages and pages. It's absolutely obvious these come from bot farming, but nothing is done about it. Gold sellers spam chat and yet they're not automatically banned from players reporting spam.
It may be true that leadership bot farms are generating ridiculous amounts of AD, but they've hit it with a sledgehammer by disabling it for everyone. They've also not made alternative ways to earn AD available for genuine players to compensate for the loss. With all this going on they've increased AD sinks in the game, and significantly reduced ways to earn AD in game, while making AD more and more important to end game progression.
Neverwinter is going the way of STO.
Giant grindfest and abuse the player base.
Go Craptic!
I don't think the 1.6 miilion xb1 players really give a shit.
It's really fun from levels 1 to 60. That's where it starts to get problems. Right now end game progression is incredibly tedious and ultimately pointless, since there are no raids or 'ultra epic' dungeons.