Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
No disrespect to people with families and jobs, but this doesn't entitle you to unfair advantages over others. Sometimes you just have to accept that your real life situation means you can't fully enjoy all the hobbies you wish. You can't just expect to be allowed to negatively impact hobbies for people who enjoy them because you have a job or children. Not to mention bots are not handed out based on an evaluation of your real life commitments and time schedule, they're openly available and more often used by people who have plenty of free time and can't be bothered.
The game already respects your time more than most. If the developers consider a form of automated gameplay to be acceptable, they'd have added it.

On the topic of legal ingame bots, I've actually seen MMO's try this years ago in the past as a means to combat botting. They absolutely wrecked their own economies. All markets simply died. It pretty much killed those games.



Buying items cheap is the end result. It feels like a benefit, but you skip over and destroy everything in the middle. For those who like to sell, there's no longer a point in leveling crafters, gearing, farming mats, making items and listing them. For those who buy, there's no longer a point in leveling crafters, farming Normal raids, farming scrips and all the rest. Why bother, just buy your items and gear dirt cheap from a bot.

Super cheap items are only a very short term "benefit". Similar to loading cheat codes in a single player game is a benefit for half an hour, then you suddenly realize you're bored and done with the game.
Thanks for a friendly and awesome response. Overall I'm right on board with you. And as others have said, some of my frustration is more in how the developers have failed. Like we really need to see them revamp housing. Camping the placards just is screwed up. And as much as I'd like to think of it a bit as I did of the old HNM days and all in FFXI, there's a huge difference in that you're competing for yourself. At least on HNM camping it was a group effort and we had fun with each other while there. I think it's about the only area of the game where I've been frustrated enough that I've considered botting. But that's just frustration talking.