This decision will likely force our instance to allow instant account creation in order to have any discoverability come from the Mastodon website. It will cause more unnecessary work for our mods in having to weed out bot accounts *after* creation, and does not allow us to curate our community the way we intend.
All I can say is this: If you like https://mstdn.games and want to see it continue to grow, please share our instance with those you know looking for a home on Mastodon. Thanks.