Botting Vs. Playing legit on Runescape

Whenever I play runescape, I see bots everywhere. They are fishing, cutting all the yew trees, mining all the runite ores, and so on. It is very annoying. Whenever I tries to train any of my skills, all of the areas are over crowded with bots.

When I was still a noob, I felt that botting is cheating, that all botters are just lazy people who want the reward of a high level, but don't want to work for it. But all that changed when I got higher levels. Leveling up became harder and harder to do. The amount of experience required to level up seemed to grow exponentially. It would take weeks, some times even months to raise just one level. Playing the game seemed like work. I had to do a simple task that needed to be repeated hundreds of thousands of times with little variation in order to level up.

Then I realized. The the game was trying to suck me in, make me spend more and more time playing it, so that Jagex can make more money. The rewards at the highest level is extremely tempting, and all Jagex is doing is trying to get you to play a little longer so that you could unlock some new area or a new cape. Jagex are the ones who are truly evil. If they really wanted to get rid of the botters, they could have done so, but because there are member botters who pay the monthly subscription fee, they can't ban every single one of them. The only thing that Jagex cares about is the money from the monthly subscription.

Another reason that banning all the botters would not be possible is because that botters has existed on Runescape for such a long time that it is an integral part of the game. If all the botters were all banned, the prices for everything would sky rocket. Everyday comsumable commodities such as food, runes, arrows, and potions would become costly very quickly. This can be seen after the second mass ban of botters in 2008. The price of lobsters rose as high as 400 each, runes became so expensive that casting high level alcamy, a spell that usually made a profit, became as expensive as other methods of power leveling. The entire runescape economy would crash, and something similar to the great depression that happened in the 1930s would occur in runescape.

Now, I am a regular botter. Botting allows me to free of the clutch of the game. I can be doing other things, more productive things while my character is grinding at some repetitive task.

And don't we all know, there is a bot for every game. If there a way of human doing it, a computer program can do it better, if it is written well. Best of all, computers are the best at doing repetitive things over and over again.