Quote Originally Posted by Xoto View Post
The only way for that to happen is to make sure the developers know its affecting a portion of their player base.
Why do you assume they don't know? Because they haven't waved a magic wand yet that turns all the cheaters into honest players with positive ethics and integrity?

Trust me, they know.

I'm not trying to telling you how to play. I'm pointing out that botting is not something that is going to disappear. No matter how hard SE and other game development companies try to stop bot activity, the bot programs are not going to go away as long as people like to cheat.

I used to be one of those who raged and moaned over the existence of bots. It didn't do anything except make me more miserable.

I decided I'm not going to let it bother me anymore. If a bot moves in on what I'm selling, I switch to other stuff. If I have witnessed what I believe is undeniable proof that someone is botting, I will report that character and what I have observed.

A lot of the examples of bot activity I've seen in this thread are things that any player with enough time on their hands can do for themselves with an extra account to move items to. Other examples seem to be things more likely accomplished with the use of 3rd party mods similar to the auction house add-ons that WoW players have access to, not by bot programs or other form of automation. Still against ToS but SE has their don't ask don't tell policy and they seem disinclined to do anything about them unless they disrupt competitive balance, as we saw with the changes made after the last Ultimate race.

My stance will always be that if you want to get rid of the bots and RMT, get rid of the players who want to cheat in the first place. Without the cheaters, those things would quickly die due to the lack of customers. People need to stop making excuses for the cheaters. They need to stop associating with the cheaters.

Do what you feel you need to do.