Botters/Cheaters/3rd party programs

[SirSaber]

I see them, sometimes I like to screw with 'em too but I don't feel bothered by them.
I just pity the person programing them, wasting more time to set up a bot rather then play the actual game.

Yet one thing is clear to me, if the bots weren't there I wouldn't want to imagine the price of shards and crystals...
I always though that we should be able to gather more than 1/3 shard per hit or 60 shards in 30min (retainer venture).

But that's off topic.

Yeah bots, meh, if SE doesn't do anything about them they'll sooner or later spread around, damage the community and when that happens if SE is going to swing the hammer we will go from 2.5 million players to 1.5 million. (ekoj)

TL;DR: I can't gather the same hate OP has about boters, I only pity the fools, I don't hate them.