DFO General Chatter/Community Discussion

Oh boy...
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Dear DFO Players,
This is In Lee, CEO of Neople.
I have a difficult news to share, and I feel apologetic about this.
This might be an embarrassing news for us as a developer.
When we first started to bring back the game, one of our concerns was about whether the players would like the game or not, and another was about the bots and hackers as they were a lot of them when the game was previously serviced.
So I asked the players not to use bots and our expectation was that the bots would disappear if there were no demands.
However, recent developments within the game have started to shift the game towards the wrong direction. The number of bots or web pages selling gold are continuously growing. And they are trading gold using the Auction Hall.
Every day 10,000 ~ 15,000 new accounts are created and 95% of them end up being bots. This has negative impact on the in-game economy, and it sends the wrong message to the players. Many bots appear with inappropriate behaviors and they are luring the players. Almost all of these bots are frauds and they are there to take your money away from you.
We have been constantly monitoring the game, coming up with various ways of stopping these bots, and blocking them systematically every day but all of our efforts are not enough. We are very sorry. On behalf of the entire staff, as the CEO of DFO’s developer, I would like to personally apologize for this.
After careful and painful consideration, we have decided, as a primary measure, to introduce a policy that might be an inconvenience for many of the players. I understand there will be a lot of complaints, but I would like to earnestly request all the players to work together and keep the game clean. The policy we will introduce, (hopefully) with your understanding, is the following:
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<Policy>
- Starting date: May 7, 2015 after maintenance
- Characters below Lv.50 (Lv.1~Lv.49) will not be able to sell/buy items from Auction Hall
- All equipment below Lv.50 (Lv.1~Lv.49) cannot be registered to be sold at the Auction Hall
- All “ingredient” items cannot be registered to be sold at the Auction Hall
(I’d like to ask that the players should get these items through playing the game. We will be monitoring the game and have necessary measures implemented if this seems to be too much of an inconvenience).

<Opening Hours of Auction Hall>
- Auction Hall will open for 48 hours every weekend (Saturday 00:00 ~ Sunday 24:00, UTC)
- Auction Hall will be disabled during the May 7th maintenance, and will open at 00:00 on May 9th, UTC).
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It would have been better if we could block these bots within the game system but Neople lacks the capability, and I sincerely apologize for this.
I know this will not be easy, but please show your support by cooperating with us. We hope to try different policies such as this one and try to keep the game clean.
I hope all those players who love DFO will give us a helping hand. While the Auction Hall is down, we will track the bot accounts and block them.
I really hope you all understand, and please don’t purchase gold from web pages outside of the game.
Despite the above, if there is no improvement within the game we are also considering the complete closure of the Auction Hall.
Once again I sincerely hope for your kind understanding, and apologize, as the developer, for not being able to place a concrete countermeasure to fight the bots technically.
Neople will continue to strive to achieve our best. Please continue to trust us and stay with us.
You, the players, are the source of our power.
Thank you.