I have been working as moderator of Ragnarok Online sub-forum in a Vietnamese gamer forum for 4 years and it was fun how this arguement of "botters" vs "anti-botters" was brought up a lot of time during these 4 years and everytimes the contributors posted at least 1500 posts in one week to argue whether it is ok to bot or not.
So what is bot? It can simply be understand as a "virtual robot" that play the game for you automatically. So imagine you spent a whole year working in the garden to create a beautiful garden for a competition. Your neighbour, who also participate in the competition, however create a robot to do the work for him and finish in 1 week. And the result turn out that he win the competition. Some might say that the guy deserve it because he spent time and money on the robot, some might argue that he does not suppose to have a third party work for him and that's cheating. So that is why the arguement has been going on from year to year and hasn't settle down yet.
Of course, using third party programme is usually considered "cheating" by most gamers and game providers. Pelagato on MMOsite.com points out 4 kinds of bots and claims that game is supposed to be played with fun and enjoyable experience, not to win by all mean. A lot of providers set a rule for their games that botters will be banned from the game if caught. There are case that people was arrested or sued by the game provider for botting in game.
We could ask why some people take "auto-programme" so serious? Well, I have already mentioned in older posts that people are now making money out of "virtual items". If some people will just abuse the auto-programme to hunt rare items for them and sell for high price then could that money be considered legal? Pelagato also talks about this problem on his article with same concern.
On botters' side, they claims that they only bot because they need time for their own life, too. But of course, if you don't have time to play then why bother start the game at first place?
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