Friends hitting the 30 instance cap before noon

[Ronduwil-pagle]

To be fair, they followed up and clarified:

@Kaivax

Developers’ notes: The newer limit of 30 instances in a 24-hour period is an extension of the 5 instances per hour limit, which was tracked per-realm since it was first implemented in 2005. The intention behind both of these restrictions is to reduce the profits for new bots when they first come online and haven’t been removed yet. We’ve concluded that a per-character limit will be just as effective, while being less restrictive to legitimate players who have multiple characters on the same realm.

So they’ve already taken steps to address this problem. I’m sure they’re aware that there are some “legitimate” players still bumping into this, and if the number of those was significant, they would take steps to address the issue. Like every other design decision, there is a cost and a benefit to this, and they currently believe that the benefits of this change outweigh the costs. I don’t know how much longer we want to beat this dead horse. Compromises have been made already, and I am skeptical that any more will be done. There will always be players who refuse to accept reality, clinging to the false hope that this change will someday be reverted. I pity them.