My response to this is that this game has been made exceedingly easier in the past few wipes with Legend, Ranks, Class Revamp, and so forth. The playerbase is not in my opinion at the point where multi-botting should be instituted as a standard of the game. The zones where you needed 8-10 in the past have become 2-4 man in many cases or even solo for the right classes. There are still a few zones where you need a large group to be successful as it should be. In no way is the player base so crippled that in order to do those zones, you need to have x bots. What it amounts is laziness on the part of the players to make friends/share information with clanmembers or to actually see what zones you can do with less people or even grouping unknowns. People are ninjaing zones all over the place.
The fact is at this point, not finding enough people to do x zone is entirely an attitude problem of players NOT a lack of players problem. Basicly, the "I don't like x because of what it did to me 20 years ago" attitude. Or for some reason, you think X unknown is a spy going to steal your shines. Get over it! The fact is there are so few people that really will pk you these days that the paranoia retardedness should have died years ago. The only clan that hasn't had that paranoia of late is MINE...and they been grouping and helping just about anyone that isn't a complete moron/dick and they have been doing this for wipes.
That being said, I am just as guilty as everyone else since there are quite a few people in the game I really don't have a real use for. I do however, make an effort. People just need to realize this is a game...have fun and play with people. Players are the best way to maintain the playerbase. The more paranoid you are, the more you are a dick for the sake of being a dick, the more you whine about this person did/said/acted x to you, the more you leave people out in the cold for gear hoarding or information hoarding...the more players we lose because the PLAYERS have made the game un-fun and creates a lack of the same. Why? Because most of us are getting old...and as we get older we have enough drama in real life that dealing with drama in what should be entertaining is just stupid.
To prove Hoss's point of "I'll quit if you don't do what I want":
I WILL quit the day botting is made legal. The only exception to this would be an addition of some mercenary mechanic that is an ingame mechanic that allows anyone to use regardless of level of knowledge in the game or programming skills. Allowing botting only makes this game more exclusive than it already is.
Anyhow...end of rant.
