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Honestly, if you are going to be so insulting about one of the most basic game elements that people enjoy (competition), you really shouldn't be discussing game design. Calling players "pathologically competitive" or labeling them the "psychologically damaged minority" is just asinine. Competition is one of the central themes of most games of any platform (board, card, console, PC, you name it), and that includes online RPGs. What you are doing is tantamount to dismissively calling gamers "a bunch of loser nerds" and thinking that is going to get you anywhere.

The point you keep missing is that on most games players have absolutely no problem with someone having an advantage over them if it is because of greater time investment in the game, greater skill, or other such factors. Those are acceptable determinants for success. But for someone to have an advantage over them simply because they programmed a bot to play the game for them is not acceptable to most players, or more importantly it is not acceptable to the players on games that ban botting.

The main reason most games ban botting is that players do not want bot development to be a major part of the game. There are, however, games that allow or even encourage botting. Those are the proper games for people to play if they like botting. But most people dislike the thought of competing with bots, or having to make the choice between efficiency (botting) and fun (playing the game themselves).

Also, randomly putting every 20th word in bold is unnecessary. Seriously.

As for the troll portions of your post, I am going to take the high road and ignore it. As with the botting topic, you clearly do not understand it from a game design and business management standpoint. Feel free to start a new topic about it if you really think you're up to discussing it.