I played WoW two years ago for about three months, just three months and I know enough to giggle at this reply. Sad huh?

 

And I agree that these are all valid points, but we're missing what I think is one of the the biggest issues here,  and that is balance.

You're creating a game that is attempting to appeal to a massive amount of human beings who ALL have different ideas about how a game should be, what they like in a game and what keeps them. You can't make a game focused on great stories and epic quests because Billy Bob just wants to sign in and smash the crap out of stuff. You can't just make a game for PEWPEWing everything in sight, because Karen Sue wants to read about the world's lore and history.

MMO creators have got to learn to balance a nice collection of elements to draw all types of players in and do their best to balance all aspects of a game. This INCLUDES making sure some of that **** works before releasing it!

 

Botters drive me nuts, there's never a way to ignore them fast enough or make it so I don't have to deal with them. :/

And thanks for reading!

 

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Depends on the Free MMO. I've played 2Moons and 9Dragons, for instance, and they were just awful when it came to bots.

2moons' bots were so bad that you could not, under any circumstances, chat in the local channel with anyone as bot spam would scroll faster than a crack addicted four year old running for the cocoa puffs. The moment you ignored one, there was a second one, the moment they did anything about the first one there was a third one--and by the time I moved on, it seemed like anyone working for those games or in it had sorta given up on the gold spam.

Some free MMORPG's are splendidly bereft of bots and gold spams due to community and excellent GM's/volunteers. Some make WoW look like heaven.