Quote Originally Posted by SnowTiger View Post
That's a pretty idiotic thought imho. There are no 'good' botters and 'bad' botters... Just botters. It doesn't matter what you use it for, they provide a clearcut unfair advantage over legit players, and are against the terms of service. People who use bots should know better than to try to defend it... They know exactly what they're doing, and they know it's wrong, but they do it anyway. I'm sure most of them will get banned eventually once the ban waves start, as that's pretty much always how it goes with these games... But, of course, some won't, and there'll always be new bots right up until the day the servers go down for good.

Like, if you wanna stay neutral about them and just don't care if other people bot, good for you. But anyone who defends botting is either an idiot or, surprise, botting, lol. If you don't like the game enough to play it, and have to use a bot, you should just move on to some other game.

This game is different from other mmo's in that you're not supposed to cap everything in a week. That doesn't mean cap everything ASAP by any means necessary, i.e. botting... That means take your damn time, enjoy the game, and things will lvl gradually over time. Again, if you want instant gratification and quick easy leveling, there's plenty of other reward button games out there to pick from.

Anyways, personally, I hope SE doesn't ban the bots one at a time... Would be better to lull them into a false sense of security, and compile a nice big list of everyone who has used a bot... Then, like a week before the PS3 launch or big expansion/patch, permaban them all, lol. If you do it too soon, then they don't miss out on much, and will just buy another copy of the game and resume botting, and be capped again before the next patch.
Actually his point is dead on, his point wasnt idiotic either considering its the truth, your assumption that bots can 'Cap you in a week' is an interesting theory indeed, you could what, get a craft to 50? Big deal, people have botted across all games since the beginning of games, not even bots, im referring to cheating, Single player games to now MMOs, most gamers dont want to deal with staring at a screen forever for an objective they want to complete, so they bot to get it done faster. Is this right? No, but is it wrong? No, its a gamer's choice on how they wish to play a game. Even if it against ToS of the game people will always bot, bot makers will always make bots once their previous bots are found and disabled, this is even the reality of the 9 year old final fantasy XI at the moment, it will never change, threads like this are seriously old, over wrote, and ridiculous, if you are worried about RMT corrupting this game as it did FFXI during its beginning, remember this, RMT dont farm gil if you dont buy it~ Enough said, end of story, i.e. its the players fault for indulgeing in the easy way of getting things done, as i said earlier, its a gamers choice how they wish to experience a game.