giraffasaurous wrote:

I know what it is. I'm not stupid. However you wanna describe botters and botting, it's still bad and it's still basically ruining WLO as a game for everyone who wants to play fair. Third party programs that enable (notice I said "enable" not "allow" "allow" assumes that you are allowed to do something with no negative reprocussions to yourself or anyone else) you to do illegal actions on WLO and IGG needs to step up and do something about it. Maybe if they looked at it as if they got rid of all the botters, banned them for good, maybe they'd see that they may gain tons of more players and income to want to play fair and buy IM stuffs cause they'd not be so insanely expensive.

Yes, botters ruin the game. You can categorize players into three categories: those that bot using 3rd party programs, those that bot using in-game tools, and those that don't bot at all.

But to say bots are "illegal" is not true.

Many people use the terms "bot" and "3rd party program" interchangeably and are then confused when people tell them "you can simulate it with an e-remote". Why? OF COURSE they are both bots, but then why is one ok and the other is not? Didn't the guy just tell us botting is illegal? What's going on?

And botters love to exploit this technicality by making a decent argument as to why botting is ok (ie: IGG provides their own botting solutions) and suddenly there are even more confused people.

And then this confusion leads to people not bothering to report botters at all because they either a: don't know what's going on and don't want to embarrass themselves or b: have given up on it.

And no, bots can't "duplicate" items. It'd be a mess if people actually believed this, cause then it'd be something to criticize IGG for, something that they themselves have not even verified but only "heard from some experienced people"

Last edited Fri, 27 Aug 2010, 4:50pm by Keikoku