Ok, I will be hated for saying that bot is, in overall senses, beneficial to both the user and everyone else.

 

 

 

However, think about the reason why people use bots. Then, think about what is the purpose of games.

 

 

 

Ofcourse, the purpose of games are to entertain. If a game is supposed to be entertaining, then why is runescape so repeatitive? Think about your runescape experience. Do you have more good time with it, or more bad and frustrating experiences in playing it?

 

 

 

Take the skill "Magic" as an example. It takes someone 3 months of training magic before they can enjoy the fun and excitement of ice barrage. And how long can someone enjoy it? a few hours before they run out of runes? few days? Under immense pressure of getting magic level up, the boredom of repeatition from clicking alchemy and the real life costs of those things, the monetary costs of membership and the time consumed by it, don't we deserve something more? if we don't have something more than an extra icon available on the magic panel, why can't we simplify the process? 3 months in real life could be used to achieve many things. Compare that with Runescape, how little is it, being the reward for 3 months of boring and meaningless work?

 

 

 

What about mining? What about woodcutting? smithing? fishing? all the non-combat skills?

 

 

 

Taking this more "world-wide", we have people botting at popular training spots, and people botting for money. Many people complain that their money has been taken away by bots, but have you thought that the bots are actually doing the repeating job for you, and while doing something you enjoy, you can simply buy the resources they have gathered at a cheaper rate. Jagex mentioned the "law of demand and supply" on their knowledge base, so I will use it here too. The very same law states that as supply goes down, the demand stays the same, then the price will go down. This means that bots are indeed bringing down the prices of raw materials. Some of you may argue that this is only an excuse for people to use bots, but in actual fact, they, the botters, are botting for you, rather than against you. I have no idea why a player would vote against for botting while everything is for their benefit.

 

 

 

You might also argue that bots decrease your speed at leveling resource gathering skills, but if you have indefinite amount of resources available, will you ever consider touching those skills? Obviously no. The most outstanding examples are the most common skill capes: Fletching, Cooking and Firemaking. And if you look up most of those cape wearers on hiscores, 99% of them don't have the co-responding skill gathering skill, I.E. a cooking cape wearer in 99% cases won't have fishing cape and a fletching cape wearer 99% of the time don't have a woodcutting cape. Think about it, hasn't bots benefitted us all? If you are one of them wearing a firemaking cape at level 70s, then you should really consider this well. Would it be that easy for you if there is no bots?

 

 

 

"Runescape is created for humans to play, not bots" a Jagex mod once said that (or something similar, I forgot the exact words). In this quote, I would like to emphasis the word "human". We are humans, but what Jagex is doing is not moral. Jagex used the greed nature of humans and abuses it. It created a world that trapped people's minds in, and they think they can do whatever they want to with those people. We are humans, and our intellectual capabilities enabled us to do things far more than repeatitive clicking. If bots are not allowed, then are we not becoming bots ourselves?

 

 

 

And, Jagex created means to prevent us from not using such bots. Random events are just a waste of resources and Rule 7 is pure garbage. Basically Jagex restricted the use of bots and forced players to do repeatitive things themselves. Now may I ask: Who, or what else, did similar things that an autocrat power controlled its people's thoughts and actions? the Soviet communists? the Nazi? African slavery societies? many examples across the worlds are like exactly what Jagex is doing, and they have been taken down. I wonder when would Jagex notice this fact and begin to think an inner change of the game before it develops further.

 

 

 

You might say that those who commit themselves in runescape are willing to do so. I disagree to that. Notice that I stated earlier, Jagex used the greed nature of humans and abused it. Think of the majority of people who are playing Runescape. More people under the age of 18 are playing Runescape than any other age range. Young people usually can't get themselves out of that addiction, and it is this point that Jagex is using. What else abused human greed? Religions wise, Satan did. So did Jagex.

 

 

 

The only way to solve the bot problem is to find its core problem rather than peeling skin. And the real problem of botting comes from Jagex itself. Those are my opinions.

 

 

 

 

 

Lol.

Bots were great for most players, resources were cheap enough to profit from when converted, and often affected little else. Unless the player was training Woodcutting or killing Dragons.

 

For a DIY'er, they clogged training spots.

 

 

 

Really, bots/Goldfarmers were good for most; many people here admit to liking them because of cheap resources, as much as people say they were bad after their peak...

 

 

 

Bad for Jagex though, credit card troubles (Theirs is the only explanation that we're given), plus the fact that it's part of the terms of agreement that everyone signs when they start the game means they had to go.

 

 

 

Botting for an individual player seeking to level faster still exists, I'm sure. That kind is near harmless in the long term.

Our economy is pretty bot reliant, and when they took them out. BOOM our market went crazy.