2015-05-01, 07:04 AM
Mazz Wrote:The level breakdown of characters statistic makes me really sad for some reason. Thousands of those level 151-200 characters are people I likely encountered in-game years ago that stopped playing. It's quite strange to look at and think about. I'd be very interested in seeing a breakdown like this that excludes mule/bot/illegit characters, but I know that's essentially impossible to recreate.
For one thing, they could do "account level" instead of "character level". Every account with a level 200+ character also has a dozen level 120 link-skill mules, and perhaps a few level 10-30 storage mules. By showing "account level" (i.e., the level of the highest character on the account), they show a more realistic image of "how far do people get in the game".
Obviously there are also accounts that are pure storage and probably don't have any character over 33 (for Hot Day gifts), but it's hard to know how to rule those out. Nexon could, and for all I know does, keep track of "account families" - accounts that play from the same IP and frequently trade with each other - but I doubt they'd want to further reduce their "40 million characters" down to maybe 400,000 users (not necessarily active).
As for pure bots, I'm assuming that the ones that got banned are not in the statistic at all. I'm guessing there are no more than a few hundred thousand active bot accounts at any one time. But that's pure guess.