Should the ToS be updated to allow botting?

[Khubla_Kha]

Tisk, tisk, you are going about it the wrong way!

You don't allow boting, you implement an ingame bot complete with user interface that can run for a certain amount of time every day and then sell bonus time for it in the cash shop.

That's how capitalism does it!

Nailed it, Zojha!

But seriously, the sad part is that the formula being followed for development of this game truly fits such a function.

"Oh, our primary goal for progression in this same is grinding some arbitrary amount of arbitrary currency with an arbitrary weekly cap".

Sounds like the perfect environment for automated game functionality to me.

[Zojha]

Next thing you know, people will want RMT legalized because people should have the ability to buy gil.

You're late to the party - people already asked for gametime tokens you can sell on the markets ala WoW.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

You're late to the party - people already asked for gametime tokens you can sell on the markets ala WoW.

Irrelevant. I never mentioned game tokens.

[Kosmos992k]

In a word...

NO!

[Zojha]

Irrelevant. I never mentioned game tokens.

It's the same damn thing as RMT - you buy the token with real money and sell it for virtual money. In other words, you exchange real currency for virtual currency. Aka RMT.

[Kosmos992k]

Wait aren't you the same person who asked what the offical stance is on non rmt bots?, why do i get the feeling you want to use bots yourself?.

Some might say that there is no smoke without fire, some might say....

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

No. And no.

[Xlantaa]

Are you kidding me? Pay a game to put a bto to play for you? I don't get this. Are the world becoming crazy or something?

[Kosmos992k]

I've never understood this. Why get a bot to essentially play a game for you? Doesn't that take all of the meaning out of it?

In my experience there are some people who will cheat at everything. So of course some will bot, just as in some games, some will mod their save data to give themselves anything, or upgrade their gear. Cheating is cheating and personally I consider botting to be cheating, since you are acquiring things that you could not otherwise obtain through normal play, and gaining an advantage over others in the process.

So, in essence, perhaps the question being asked is; "Should the ToS be updated to allow cheating?"

It would at least be more accurate, and clearly undesirable.

In the end, the person most cheated by a cheater is the cheater them self.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

It's the same damn thing as RMT - you buy the token with real money and sell it for virtual money. In other words, you exchange real currency for virtual currency. Aka RMT.

Buying gil alone is not the same thing as using in game currency to buy more sub time. So no, not the same thing.