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Itchy

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  1. NCSoft has banned two of my people. they had no in-game infractions and a reasonable explanation has not been given. servers continue to be inundated with bots, a battle i've been fighting with NCSoft for weeks. it isn't rocket science to account ban but NCSoft refuses ~ REFUSES ~ to put live GMs in game to get it done. they are "investigating." investigationis "take time." well.. it took no time at all for them to ban two people who have done ~NOTHING~. The bots are still there, all 3000+ of them. i am finished with NCSoft's duplicitous policies and hypocrisy. i am finished with NCSoft. i am finished with L2. i have never been as angry with a complete loss of sense and competence as i have been with @NcsoftFTW today. they'll take your dollars, they'll ignore your reports, they'll give you canned auto-copy-paste nonsense responses. they do not respect legitimate players. they say they take bots "seriously." yes, of course they do. the bots are paying NCSoft for immunity to bot and flood the servers making true gameplay impossible. bots are business and they're right up there in NCSoft's figurative backside enjoying the benefits. Anyone who believes a player paying 700 million adena for a clan hall four months after server launch isn't buying hundreds of millions of adena from the bot adena sellers is blind and stupid. yet those people are still playing the game with immunity. Lineage 2 is officially dead. NCSoft has flushed it into the sewers. it isn't worth the time or the effort or the frustration or the aggravation of playing any longer. throwing my VIP dollars in NCSoft's toilet because i can no longer stomach the way they do business..... good luck to all you who choose to stay in the game. i hope you don't get banned too. signing out........ forever.
  2. a clan member of mine was banned today. he is not a bot. he does not buy adena. there is no understandable reason for him being banned. the bots are all still out there, though. fields are covered with them. nothing being done about those at all!! but someone who has done nothing is banned. good use of your time and effort, NCSoft... why can't you focus that time and energy where it really needs to be focused?? maybe someone reported this character as a bot because it's a healer on auto-follow with his main character? how ridiculous. i don't know if that's what happened but if it is, nice job banning the wrong guy!! post-note: this is the second of my clan members banned within the last week for NO in-game infractions. is my clan being targeted? do i need to start wearing tinfoil hats?
  3. isn't it the slightest bit ironic that they, the staff, are even asking us, the players, to do anything about this? bot reporting should be available for the occasional bot one might see somewhere. the sheer herds of bots that we see daily on TI server preclude us being able to effectively report anything. it is not our job, we do not get paid or rewarded for making these reports yet NCSoft constantly asks us to do this for them. well, NCSoft, you put some real live GMs in the game and you'll see what we see and your payroll will cover effective bot banning. you're so concerned that real people are going to report real people just because they don't like them is backfiring on you. take away our ability to help effectively, forget it, we won't help. there's nothing in it for us when you ignore our reports anyway. so NCSoft, it is YOUR job. YOU do it! You do it because it needs to be done. You are the host of this game, it's up to you to maintain its integrity. IT. IS. NOT. OUR. JOB. i also refuse now to pay another dime to NCSoft for the absolutely ridiculously low standard of service that i get for what i've paid. VIP is a waste when i can't find a mob to kill to take advantage of the xp bonus. VIP is wasted when i can't take advantage of drop rates. and why can i not take advantage of drop rates? for the same reason so many people have been telling you for so long. NCSoft loves the bots, let the bots remain unbanned. but ban people who have not violated your game rules for no good reason other than saying a *** word in a private conversation with a GM. yes, it's true. tell a GM *** you in a private ticket conversation and you will be temp banned from the game. but the bots charge on. they breed. they make more bots. they're like rabbits.. 10 on this field today, 40 on the same field tomorrow. we real people don't have a chance under this pathetic management. cheers...
  4. how many real live people are left playing on Talking Island server? hard to find any... maybe 40 people doing world shout.. pretty sure the rest are bots. quests not completed.. can't find mobs. tired of wasting time and money..................... would really appreciate some response from @NcsoftFTWabout their plans and/or intentions to fix this mess...
  5. Cannot do class change quest. 35 minutes looking for 3 grandis at hardin's academy that i can kill without being KS'd by bots. cannot get the quest items. bots are everywhere, no mobs on the fields at all. time wasted doing quest. buff scrolls wasted. fruits wasted. money wasted. everything WASTED!!!! how much longer will this go on @NcsoftFTW??? how much longer do real people have to deal with these nuisance bots? WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO START CARING?????? ~EXTREMELY ANGRY
  6. and when these reports are made, what is actually being done about them?? nothing? no surprise there..... of course limit our abilities to do anything to help this game prosper. feed us canned copy/paste messages and expect us to be content. reports have been made continuously by people until they realized NCSoft does nothing with their reports, the same bots remain in the same fields day after day after week after week. it doesn't matter that we report...... we are wasting our time. yeah.. thanks for that, NCSoft...
  7. I get it. And i agree. and i have been critical of NCSoft for this very thing many times. they don't care and it shows...... However, i believe the squeaky wheel gets the grease. i'm being a squeaky wheel. there are problems! they need to be fixed! bots don't pay the bills, players do! ncsoft has no common sense. ncsoft is operated with far-below-standard management and customer service. the ONLY thing they have going for them is Lineage II and they are rapidly flushing that one good thing down the toilet with their aforementioned poor management. if we don't keep making noise nothing will be done and it will go to the dogs. if i were in charge of Lineage II would absolutely put customers first, rule enforcement second and all else in line behind that. having high integrity in management helps raise the bottom line in dollars. NCSoft obviously hasn't caught on to that one small principle yet. make a wonderful game then just don't give a damn about the rest of it while people continue to throw money at it hoping it will get better. it's a great joke NCSoft!!! yeah, you're really pulling it over our eyes, aren't you? but in the end it is NCSoft who will go out of business or take great financial losses because the customers will stop caring too. woe to you when that happens, NCSoft... @NcsoftFTW get your act together!! start using some common sense, please.
  8. @Juji Dear Juji and NCSoft, The botting on Talking Island Server has increased to near unbearable conditions. Large fields with high respawn rate are so covered with bots they are literally fighting over the same mobs as they spawn. @Juji your letter to the community was appreciated. finally we hear something from our representative to NCSoft!!! In your letter you claimed to have banned THOUSANDS of bots. But they are apparently returning with little or no consequence. BOTS ARE NOT PAYING YOUR BILLS OR SALARIES!!! Real people are!!!! Isn't it time NCSoft made a more concerted effort to actually visit the servers, travel the realm, and find and immediately ban these BOTS??? There is almost no field available for real players to hunt because they are so covered with BOTS!!! your servers are literally bleeding real players and being taken over by bots. real people with credit cards and checkbooks are leaving your game every day because there is not enough enforcement against the bots on these servers. While you claim to have banned thousands, there has to be a more efficient and expeditious way to expel these nuisances for good. PLEASE DO SOMETHING! Hire a LIVE GM to patrol the realms and get rid of these problems for once and all!!! make the statement to your botting community that it will NOT BE TOLERATED! it sickens me every time i log in a VIP4 character and try to play and i CAN'T! i know many other people feel the same as i do!!! MY VIP MONEY HAS BEEN WASTED!!!! competing with bots for mobs on a large field is NOT MY IDEA OF GOOD GAME PLAY!!! Your live playing community has been begging, imploring, pleading with you to fix this and it only continues to get worse. Daily in the town of Dion you can see bots running through without armour to smack mobs and die so they can delevel. it is the same bots over and over and over again. they have been reported yet they are still there. Hardin's Academy fields are so full of bots real people can't hunt there without wasted time running from one mob still standing to the next. we report these bots but we are limited. 6 reports per day 30 minutes apart between each possible report simply does NOT address the problem!!!! it is disheartening to continue to see the same bots in the same fields day after day, to see them advance and delevel whilst we, REAL PLAYERS, are challenged in finding mobs to kill. DOES NCSOFT EVEN CARE?? It doesn't seem so. Thank you for your time, @Juji i sincerely hope you will take all of this information and INSIST THAT YOUR DEV PEOPLE DO SOMETHING IMMEDIATELY TO FIX THIS!!!!!!!!! Sincerely.
  9. original post by @Hime on 9 november on this topic. total pages in this topic: 10. responses from NCSoft staff in this thread: zero that i could find. So many people, legitimate players of this fine game, have posted solutions to these problems of botting and adena seller spam. There has been no reply from staff whether they have seen these, read these or attempted to make a plan to implement any kind of potential solutions. The bot population continues to grow. why? because it is not being countermanded by NCSoft. Reporting procedures for players have become more difficult and reports are not receiving sufficient attention or response. Adena sellers are now making enough money that they can afford to spam mail with their adena ads. i have 4 mailboxes full of them, unopened, undeleted. they will expire naturally because i will ignore them. My conclusion is the most natural one possible for this scenario. NCSoft likes bots. NCSoft, despite its own rules and regulations, adores bots. NCSoft encourages bots. NCSoft very likely runs its own herds of bots to accumulate adena to sell the gullible masses. Just another money-making opportunity, right? NCSoft has no compassion for the legitimate players, the people who actually care about this game. NCSoft simply does not care that they are injecting their own game with a poison that will ultimately kill it. The poison of bots, the poison of adena sellers, the poison of allowing the game economy to be thrown into an unrecoverable imbalance. It isn't hard to understand why some people prefer to play on non-NCSoft servers. Those servers are managed with live GMs, they have rules that are enforced, they have live playing communities. Through the years it became well known that NCSoft researched its competitor non-NCSoft servers and took ideas from them including NPC buffers, alternate "event" currencies and mounts, just to name a very few. The one take-away NCSoft overlooked however was live management of those servers, an accountability by those server owners and staff for the success and/or failure of those servers. NCSoft really missed the boat on that one. So we can sit here all day in the forums with our complaints, with our suggestions and solutions and the results will continually forever be the same. NCSoft doesn't care. They're making money hand over fist, the 30$ start-up packs for classic were sold by the thousands. thousands times 30$ each - well, i think it's fair to say they had a pretty good financial quarter from that one event alone. As long as NCSoft continues to play the money game, consider the logic of them farming (with their own bots) and selling adena through third-party entities all for the sake of the bottom line of dollars. I absolutely believe it could be true. So as long as we complain about the bots, NCSoft will sit in their plush conference rooms and grin and nod and say, oh yeah, we got the beat on this one boys! we're making all that money and our playing public doesn't know it. yeah, i'd bet my last dollar that's what NCSoft is doing. at least it would explain why there is no response to these very real blights on the game.
  10. apologies for just now seeing this. my reply: NO! do not block the ability to chat!! this may be minimally effective for slowing down the adena sellers for a little while, it will permanently restrict ALL players in the same way. NCSoft has done this before and now in the live servers a character cannot speak until lvl 76. a new player coming in to learn the game and doesn't have the ability to talk cannot get questions answered, cannot interact with the rest of the community. this suggestion penalizes the ENTIRE community, not just the bots. and it is not a solution. the BEST solution is to have a roving GM who will tour ALL the servers and ban the adena sellers immediately onsite. period. that is the only feasible solution to this problem. if they figure out they are being banned for pm'ing, mailing or spamming their adena sales messages they will stop. only NCSoft has the ability to do this and until they do it i will continue to surmise that NCSoft doesn't care that there are adena sellers spamming the playing community. but please do NOT penalize and punish the legitimate players because of the obvious cheaters RMTing adena.
  11. i think it is possible the reason NCSoft doesn't want to ban the bots is because they themselves are running likely most of them to fuel the adena sellers they are also running. Not to say they are ALL NCSoft bots, but consider the likelihood..... they're getting even more money from the players. it's a great business model right? But in the long run the server will be nothing but NCSoft bots and adena sellers because real legitimate players will give up on the bad system and reject this particular business model. So L2 is free to play? okay...but give us something that we can actually play without interference from bots and frustration of PM's and mails from adena sellers. as a side note, i mentioned in another post how legitimate players are constantly being penalized so that NCSoft can "control" the outrageous behaviour of adena sellers PM'ing and mailing players in-game. That penalty comes in the form of raising the character levels before they can actually chat. I see now that the chat level limit has already been raised to level 10. Good Game, NCSoft. You've already begun the process of punishing real people to limit the bots. THIS IS NOT RIGHT!
  12. My character got this anomalous chat condition yesterday, 24 november 2018. it would seem this has been going on for months that people can mass /block a character and it loses the ability to chat normally. with so many months gone by and this being a known issue, why is it not yet fixed? i have submitted a ticket for it to be reversed. and i do not believe it is right to give players that kind of control over another player's ability to chat in-game. this seems, to me, to be NCSoft's lazy way of letting players handle what they consider to be issues. and honestly, most of the time there is no issue. it's just people being petty and vindictive. so NCSoft, @Neutron, can you please fix this issue and take this power away from players? Thank you
  13. Blocking a minimum ~MINIMUM~ of 9 adena sellers DAILY who are PM'ing me just in Giran. I try not to go to Dion, Gludio or Gludin because the chat is inundated with adena sellers spamming every 2 seconds in general chat AS WELL AS PMing PLAYERS! i am using the "block adena seller" function in the right-click block option. i was happy to see this in the beginning because i thought this was data NCSoft would actually use to ban these characters. Apparently I was wrong. Having my hunting corner taken over by bots is a daily occurrence. MULTIPLE times per day i have to move on to prevent being KS'd by bots. it doesn't matter that i am there first, they move in and leave me with nothing to kill. i report them as bots but i am limited to 6 reports daily. it isn't enough. I am honestly afraid to complain because i know how NCSoft has addressed these kinds of issues in the past. Adena sellers spamming general chat, PM's and mailing players with their crap turned into NOBODY being able to chat until level 76. THIS IS NOT A SOLUTION!! and this penalizes ALL LEGITIMATE PLAYERS. New players coming to L2 (now LIVE) cannot talk to anyone and so they leave. how can they get help when they can't chat and don't understand the concept of party invite to be able to talk to someone? So NCSoft has deliberately handicapped the game by discouraging new players. RMTers are allowed to set up bots to further funding their adena and gear acquisitions in-game. This has always been the case! Hey, NCSoft, i'm here spending a lot of money on NCoin and YOU BANNED MY BOTS!! don't do that to me!! i need to be the best! So in its wisdom, NCSoft stops banning bots to avoid insulting the people who pay their bills. again, this is NOT a solution! No selling adena, no botting are all announced in the EULA, terms and conditions of play as well as reiterated here in the forums time and time again. The bots continue to multiply, they are not being banned. there has been NO REAL SOLUTION to ANY of this issue! And as always, legitimate players are penalized. We are penalized having to endure the endless spam from adena sellers. we are penalized having to block them and report them, adding to an experience of in-game and constant frustration. we are penalized in the fields, being KS'ed, having our fields overrun by bots, not enough buttons to push to report them all and nothing being done to eliminate them when we do report them. Now we have this XIGN3CODE thing. what is it? what does it do? Oh, it's some kind of security system to recognize third-party programs being used in Lineage2? well, NCSoft, guess what.....................................................................................................................................it's broken. there are no live GM's in the game monitoring any of this.... in my opinion if NCSoft would put live GM's in the game to monitor and immediately ban people who are violating THEIR rules that would send a message out to other would-be bots and adena sellers that, hey, NCSoft is taking this stuff seriously and doing something about it. it would dramatically slow the influx of these nefarious bastards into the realm and make for a much happier playing experience by legitimate players. it would not need to be a forever thing, but a hard hit all at once, get rid of the riffraff then monitor it over time after that. the bot reporting button is a nice thing to have but what we are all seeing is that it is being abused. someone pisses you off in the field, you report them as a bot. yeah.. not what it's for folks.... don't waste your six clicks on legitimate people. be adult about this... report the bots. you're complicating things not only for your fellow legitimate players but for NCSoft as well. the legitimate people who are being reported seem to be the only ones who are getting banned. i guess in short, if you want a successful playing experience in Lineage2 without being banned, be a bot!!! those seem to be the ONLY characters NCSoft really doesn't care about........................ @Juji @Hime thanks for what you try to do for us. too bad you don't have a little more autonomy to actually fix the real problems.........
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