As most people might guess, I applaud this decision. I spent a lot of time reflecting on my distaste for multying and the side effect of botting, trying to see why I find it so distasteful, The best argument I came up with is that it is just the same as Bard's Tale, Baldur's Gate, Might and Magic and games similar to those where you control more than one avatar. The obvious counter to that argument is that it isn't. Those games were specifically made around the controlling of more than one character and were solo and noncompetitive games. For a competitive game to succeed, the game must be developed around that competition. Arctic was specifically designed around a 1 char at one time metagame and social interactions. Changing that policy would put the game where it was never intended to go. This fact does not change even with people cheating nor does the fact that to allow multying without large ingame changes will result in a failure of the game as a whole. Making the changes necessary to allow for it would turn Arctic from a competitive social game into something very NOT Arctic and generic which would I would personally rather see a new name for the game than Arctic and let it die with grace(I prefer Bottic for the new name).
The fact is, multying and botting in a competitive game has ruined countless games whether free or pay to play unless the game was specifically designed around multying and botting. The only people that truly benefit from Multiing and Botting in games that don't allow for it is those who cheat while doing massive harm to the game. Those who feel the need to break the game rules deserve what punishment they get, and further more (in my opinion) are people that actively hurt the overall state of the game that we don't need. Just look at the arguments that have been made for allowing it then compare it with many of the reasons people have quit over the years. The majority of arguments for it all stem because someone has done it and gotten away with it leading others to feel justified in doing the same. This drives players away, prevents the social nature of the game due to paranoia of getting caught, kills the competitive nature of the game, and just all around bad feelings. Let me say this as well, anyone who feels they have achieved any sense of dominance due to cheating...guess what...you are trash and have been trash ever since you allowed ego, greed, or laziness to take precedence. It doesn't matter what you have achieved since you cheated. As Keila has shouted repeatedly, "STOP CHEATING". Seek to be a better caliber of player. For those that have not given into that desire to cheat, great job and you are the true heroes in this game.
