At Blade and Soul maintenance work will be performed today at noon on January 27th. The game will be offline. They want to deal with the spammers and gold sellers.
Blade and Soul is very successful, which also brings some problems. Because a hot free-to-play game attracts gold sellers like … you don’t need a comparison for that, everyone knows how eagerly gold sellers dive into such a game.
Starting today, they want to make it harder for gold spammers at NCSoft to annoy innocent leveling killer ninjas with their spamming.
On January 27th, the servers will be taken offline for maintenance starting from 12:00 PM. Blade and Soul should be playable again by 4:00 PM. That is the plan.

Along with some fixes and problem solutions, Blade and Soul responds to community feedback and has limited area, faction, and group search chats for all characters up to level 10.
And they have removed the level limitation for reporting bots and spammers.
It seems clear: The hotfix is directed against the colleagues “Buy cheapest gold for very very little money @ reallycheapgold.fantasialand No FAKE REALLY!” And if you think we’re exaggerating, just recorded live at 9:46:

Perhaps it will look a little different after this afternoon.