Should botting be somehow legalized?

[PotatoTree]

They haven't even touched pvp botters. It seems like people are botting rank 0-40 in pvp over several months without any issue at all.

[TheCurls]

We have no idea how bad it would be if SE didn't perform these kinds of bans and punishments

We do know how bad it would be. I get RMT maybe once or twice a day. Some days I don't even get tells. Back at release, it was 10-25 per day.

[HaelseMikiro]

Gil sellers don't buy new accounts and build up characters. The hack/steal accounts, which allows them to gut said account for all of its money and start using a character that's already prepped for botting, if they choose to do so. It's way more cost and time efficient since it basically doesn't cost them anything.

I'm pretty sure an almost negligible amount of bots are actually stolen/hacked accounts. If any meaningful % of the 1000+ RMT bans per week were legit players, we'd be seeing new forum posts about it daily. People don't typically get hacked and not come here to let the world know.

And I do miss the days of elemental shards being 7 gil each, but alas, most of the bots make their money grinding dungeons now. Maybe it's time to SE for revoke the
gil drops they added to dungeon monsters to "compensate us for repair bills". Pretty sure 99% of dungeon runs these days (not trials/raids) have little/no issues finding success.

[Morningstar1337]

And I do miss the days of elemental shards being 7 gil each, but alas, most of the bots make their money grinding dungeons now. Maybe it's time to SE for revoke the
gil drops they added to dungeon monsters to "compensate us for repair bills". Pretty sure 99% of dungeon runs these days (not trials/raids) have little/no issues finding success.

Aw. but grinding classes with Dungeons are the only way I can make a profit now that I've done most of the quests at this that point (Well that and selling shards, but the method I use for obtaining is a little bit slow and they seem to be cheapening)

[Darki]

Gil sellers don't buy new accounts and build up characters. The hack/steal accounts, which allows them to gut said account for all of its money and start using a character that's already prepped for botting, if they choose to do so. It's way more cost and time efficient since it basically doesn't cost them anything.

Which is exactly why everyone should be using the security token/software token.

[Morningstar1337]

Which is exactly why everyone should be using the security token/software token.

Question, How do i get one of these tokens?

[ForteXX]

Question, How do i get one of these tokens?

http://www.square-enix.com/na/account/otp/

Pay for a physical one (or get free one from physical CE), or use an Android/Iphone and get the App.

[Synestra]

I hardly notice any of them which makes me sad.... need cheaper shards.

This is what most peoples forgot when they demand harsher penalties for botters, without them MB would be empty as hell and prices would skyrocket because majority of playerbase nowdays are pretty lazy and term farming is curse word in MMO's. Personally i would love to see that as i am kinda human "bot" that likes to do some mindnumbling farming when prices are good :P

[Kyana]

Maybe it is time that botting becomes a true legitimate form of gaming...

Short answer: No.

Detailed answer: No.

[VesperValveto]

Citation for commen sense? You are kidding me, right?

Which means that you're just making stuff up and trying to pass it off as fact, got it.