The way Square-Enix handles botting, I'd be surprised more people aren't jumping into it. It's weird, because I was on an RP server once, and the whole RP community is as big into modding as parses are as integral to raiding. Basically everyone does it, and it almost reminds me of drug use in competitive sports. Where it's become so common-place that you almost feel like you're hurting yourself by not taking part. I mean, I can't speak about modding or botting, but with DPS meters. You really need to either be running them--or know someone who does.

And with the penalty being non-existent for any of those activities, botting, parses, or modding--it's hard to discourage people. Because at the absolute 'worst' end of the spectrum, we're talking about a 12 hour ban or something--right? No one knows, because it never happens.

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Not to derail too much, but after the Toyota failures, and the Fukushima incident. Japanese companies have a tendency to downplay their mistakes, and just pretend they don't happen. Although anything MMO related is nothing compared to trying to cover up car accident fatalities and mis-representing radioactivity and putting citizens at risk. I don't know. Is it a pride thing?