I also agree with lagwin1980 about having the game be p2p or having something to do with money
I played Dofus for 2+ years as p2p and there were TONS of bots even in places that you can only do stuff in if you were p2p so they were bots who paid to play and bot
The money they are making must have been good for them to pay to play bot accounts (and almost all of the bots always had 6 man parties for bonuses)
The one that really drove it home for me was TESO when it was coming out, even the early access had bots and RMT spam (dozens of bots and hacks, all the resources camped by bots and my ignore list was full in 2 days)
Ancestral Bond. It's a thing that does stuff. -Vipermagi
He who controls the pants controls the galaxy. - Rick & Morty S3E1
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..."larger systemic problem of the awful 99.999% garbage drops... ..."terrible trade system (spam trade chat with 100 WTB, get < 10% replies and 9 out of 10 are "already sold"...
I'm playing SSF on Incursion for the first time this league and I really can't complain about drops.
As for trading, I don't see the point of spamming trade chat if you can list items and just wait for people to contact you to buy or vice versa. Maybe I'm missing something.
and whats so special about the garbage u got there? besides bisco's and maybe Kiara's everything else is shit u would vendor instantly even SSf .. weapon is like 20 alterations bam low tier phys roll aug/regal for either speed or crit and craft the other on it done .. that helm u find better rare helmets in act5 during lvling .. and so on
In SSF, an item is not "garbage" because it is "20 alterations". You obviously don't know it, since you value items based on sale prices, but there's no trading in SSF.