Final Thoughts

[Callinon]

Sighs, I miss the days of EQ and FFXI communities, most of the players I see now wouldnt last at most 2 months in those, or heck even a week progression-wise. Most any toxicity will result in you being ostracized from the entire server, thus your forced to either jump server or change names, both of which was not really available in the early years of those two mmos.

Those games had their own brands of toxicity. This isn't a new phenomenon.

[Drayce1]

Those games had their own brands of toxicity. This isn't a new phenomenon.

Eh they did, but it was dealt with within the community most of the time. Heck, GMs didnt really intervene. Unlike now where you got most players who refuse to learn how to play, expect to get carried, then cries out if things are "Unfair" just cuz "I pay a sub like everyone else"

Heck, most dont even go to these forums for information anymore, everyone tells me they get their info from reddit or in their FC/LS Discords for information and news, due to over 98 percent of all threads being just complaint threads. Meh.

Sighs, if only WoW didnt happen....

As for the bots. Tbh the GM Taskforce did pretty well in finding and eliminating them once they put it together. Thats why Gil between CoP and Wings was so expensive to buy online. Getting enough gil to say, get a Relic weapon for example, would have costed around 1500 dollars. Since RMTs were constantly found, and banned, thus the price would go up.

Honestly, I think they did a better job than whats going on in XIV now. From what I am seeing, SE is just letting them do whatever, and most of them farm Shards, hence why the prices are so low, since no one wants to farm shards. Tbh a good thing really. Probably why SE lets those particular Bots be.

[KageTokage]

Honestly, I think they did a better job than whats going on in XIV now. From what I am seeing, SE is just letting them do whatever, and most of them farm Shards, hence why the prices are so low, since no one wants to farm shards. Tbh a good thing really. Probably why SE lets those particular Bots be.

I don't know if your server is just a weird case or something but I almost never see shard bots on mine. They mostly go after ephermal/unspoiled nodes so they can farm mats to produce the latest relevant crafts, though there is a mob of bots (Whom I suspect to all be owned by the same person given certain evidence) who farm gather/crafting scrips instead.

Allowing cheaters to dictate the economy in any form or fashion whatsoever really is not something that any self-respecting MMO would do, though. Even if they were such an essential part of the economy, any price spikes caused by their removal would eventually level out to be appropriate for the amount of demand and people would just adjust and start getting shards themselves.