The EU and NA Aion fans are concerned about how NCSoft will manage the aion botting issue with this game. Honestly I am concerned about this too. It took them about a couple of years to seriously take into consideration this problem and REALLY do something about it. I just hope that if they'll treat this matter from the beginning things won't get bad.

Ayase (Aion community coordinator) assured the fans that they will do anything they can in order to prevent botting in Aion from the beginning. Bots and gold sellers/buyers are a serious problem in MMO games, and most of you guys know it from your own experience. NCSoft didn't even made public the punishments for using 3rd party software that automates gameplay(a.k.a. bots), something like IP Ban or even better MAC Adress ban because this one is harder to change in case you get banned, but the best would be to ban their game account with no refunds.

NCSoft does not have a specialized team of developers whose purpose would be to ensure the client/server security issues and bot/hack prevention. The main game developers will be the ones will be doing game development and securing the client/server against bots/hacking. Too many things on their hands if you ask me, and this may result in poor client/server security or poor game development or the worst case scenario, both game development and security issues.

I just hope they learned from mistakes they did in the past (with L2), and won't allow bot trains to dominate the servers once more.