Final Thoughts

[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.