Quote (Fankytore @ Jun 22 2019 09:57am)
Why is botting worse than trading,first of all human interatcion and expirience with other human being not with bot,second its in our nature,we traded for thousands of years and we are trading now as a species,so my measurement is evolution,history,biology,physiology list can go on.Data for all of this is well known.
On second thing about bots and lenght of play,d3 is very good example for that,how bots destroyed game,just move that to d2 its same situation with not much legit players proof for that statment is price drops so fast after day 3 when ppl had inuf eq to get bot started running,otherwise item price would stay higer for much longer period of time,its common sense and some logic,observation,all things are well known,dunno what kind of proof you want more?
1. There is practically zero logic to anything you are saying. "Common sense" is not the same as proof and it is quite often wrong.
2. Botting increases the level of human interaction. Nobody really interacts with bots other than the botters - but each time a bot finds a new sellable item, it creates a new human interaction since the botter will be selling the item to another human via a trade. Hence more bots = more items found = more trade = more interactions. (That is what logic looks like, listing a bunch of school subjects doesn't really prove anything).
3. Diablo 3 is not such a good example for you. Sure, there are bots in the game, but the highest rate of player dissatisfaction and decline was in the opening weeks - and the most common complaints were about the real money auction house - so ironically the trade system was the biggest reason for the game's failure.
4. You still haven't explained why item price drops are a bad thing. You say it like its self evident, but if you look at price drops in almost any other situation in your life, it's generally a good thing. If your groceries were 80% cheaper tomorrow, you would be pretty happy about it. So why is D2 any different? Having cheaper items indicates that the community as a whole is richer and makes everything more affordable. You brought up this idea of history in your first argument so here is my counter. We have a clear history of human existence for thousands of years and it has been pretty miserable. However, since the invention of robots and automation, our quality of life has improved very dramatically and they have been one of the biggest sources of wealth generation - which is exactly the same function that they serve in D2. Your complaint is pretty much the same as all the unemployed people on welfare in the community - it is centred around greed and wealth distribution, while ignoring the fact that you're also benefiting a lot from being richer and having a lot of buying power.