Well actually, i do believe that macros have indeed made the prices for many items to drop significantly. But then again, that's about all they do. For people who invest and merchant, or stock up on items, they tend to lose lots of money. For others who trained hard for their targetted levels, are beaten by people who cheat. Runescape is a game. Virtual reality i suppose, and it aims to allow people like us to have fun, to indulge in virtual reality or perhaps pursue an interest or even carve a career out of it such as tip.it. Real world trading can be considered as a money making venture, and i guess many macros are involved in these real world trading sites. If what they're doing doesn't affect the runescape community, then Jagex won't hold anything against them. But the runescape community was built over time, prices and practices or other stuff were painstakingly built up. Only to be ruined by botters? As i mentioned earlier on, its supposed to be fun. Why cheat and macro? Doesn't it defeat the purpose of "fun"? And i'm sure many or most of the people who started off in runescape classic, watched runescape grow from a corny yet addictive game into a surprising success as it is today. Those who even wrote guides, or have been abiding these guides closely, are sure to notice the price changes caused by botters. I can't say that price changes are bad, and even if i did, many will disagree with me. But that's not the point i'm trying to get at. The efforts of players who trained hard, who spent countless hours on their skills or on runescape related stuff, are compromised with unfairness within the game. To f2p-ers like me, many have yet to realise that even in member worlds do macros exist. So if that's the case, if macro-ing brings about the many benefits as some claim, why not lets just all be bots and drive runescape into a ghastly society of emptiness? As for those who remember how lobster fishing was fun, or yew cutting relaxing, those days were long gone. I'm speaking from a biased stand that macros ought to be condemned. Cheating is a sin, and sinned they will be.
