Saigon713 wrote:Let me start off by saying I know plenty of people who don't care what their collections are worth and will never sell it. People don't always invest money expecting money back. What would you say to someone who buys a sports car for personal enjoyment? Is that a good investment? Buying an expensive sports car for it to be worth jack instantly after purchase? It's not even a necessary purchase, it's simply for personal enjoyment. You seem to like to link online into "losing reality", don't you? What makes you so simple minded that you feel botting SRO and spending money automatically puts you at risk of turning off real life and wasting your life. People spend entire careers at a computer 12+ hours a day; workaholics are pretty common. Maybe you should become a therapist and talk to them instead of trying to twist online gaming into something you believe leads to life-ruining addictions.
Lol I am the simple minded one because I see a difference in doing work on a PC and wasting time on SRO. You do realize how foolish you sound atm right? Wanna prove your point? Then answer the question. If they love the game so much why do they have to have a program play most of it for them when they are perfectly capable themselves
Saigon713 wrote:
She enjoys it so much she doesn't need to have complete and utter focus and attachment 12+ hours a day, that's what I'm saying. You do realize plenty of people have been playing SRO for years and have already enjoyed the legit part and have moved onto specifically enjoying the social part, don't you?
Uh legits don't have to focus on it 12 hours a day either. And IIRC legits were way more social as a rule than the botters because we are actually there the whole time. Lets see I talked to friends while training. When people still played the game got notice of trades etc and took breaks from training to jack them with friends. Or take breaks to make AFK botters go murder and strip em. Sounds like you have not been around very many legits to say imply something as ignorant as you just did.
Saigon713 wrote:There's a difference between "working" and "enjoying". You act as if leveling to 100 legitimately on SRO, doing the same thing over and over years later, is more enjoyable.
It is the game so it does not matter. You don't want to do it then you should just work to get to a level you can attain or go play an easier game. You don't have to be capped to play the actual game. That is just a side effect of your addicted botter friends. Why should you or anyone else be allowed to bot and ruin my experience simply because you do not like the game enough to actually play and level on your own.
Saigon713 wrote:I'm not bashing on reasons people play, I'm not bashing on anything here, I'm simply stating what everyone already knows. The social aspect is why a lot of people still play or keep in touch with the game, but I'm sure you know that. The other reason people still play is obviously to set goals, goals they haven't achieved. Goals, goals, and more goals. If you're goal is to legit to a certain level, good for you, some people have other goals, it may turn them into cheaters, you may hate them, but sometimes it's the next goal they see fit.
Ok then so don't start hating on us for being rightfully upset about the actions of self centered narcisistic addicted jerks like your friend. She needs help end of story. Yeah I am being harsh but it is the truth and the truth is not always some kumbaya lets hold hands thing. You like her that is fine. If you think she does not need help then she is a big enough girl to either defend herself or not care what others have to say.
Saigon713 wrote:On what grounds does spending money on something like an online game you enjoy equal foolishness? Stop acting like you know what people should be doing with their lives. You act like people make a career out of this, that this is their life, their sole purpose for living if they are trying to achieve what Amalie is. Lets take out the money spent for a second, think about it, what is Amalie then? Not someone you would be bashing about. Funny how a little money spent turns people into creating such ridiculous assumptions.
It is the grounds that you are spending way more than the game itself is worth. Especially if you have to bot and can't be bothered to actually play. Dunno why I am still responding to you as either fail to recognize addiction and foolishness or are simply out to troll and defend a "friend". It is not a matter of oppinion here. And FYI I am paying monthly for a P2P MMO that is worth it and much more fun. So spending money on an online game is not foolishness. Spending enough on a poorly run game(that you don't have the time or will to play as intended) in a month that could feed a village in africa for 2 years. That is where you reach the point of absurdity and foolishness. There is a very real line and that is over it. Yeah her money to do it with. But there is still something not right not normal there.
Saigon713 wrote:Oh by the way, Amalie is going to be playing Aion. Nice job on your theory that she is too attached and will just get sucked in the never ending SRO loop.
Oh so she is going to quit SRO entirely for Aion or is she just going to bot in both of them? I never said she was so addicted that she could not do other things or even bot in other games. Simply stated that for what it is she has an unhealthy affinity for SRO at the very least. But that much is obvious.
Saigon713 wrote:Some people have self-control while spending money, stop categorizing.
Where was her self control to quit playing and move on to a game that was actually worth playing to her. If you want to show someone with self control she is no poster child. Someone with self control is someone who despite their love of the game chooses not to play it because of what immature people have done to it. I would not mind coming back to SRO. I trained by hand to 80 and would keep going. Just people like yourself ruin it and make it not worth it for me. And I am not even gonna start on your friends.
Irony is lost on this forum. This game is some freakish opposite world. Cheating is honorable and normal. Blowing large wads of cash for piss poor service or no service at all is wise and prudent expenditure. I have been playing Multiplayer computer games for almost 30 years and cheating against another person has always been wrong. Go somewhere else if you want to defend botters. Your arguments are void on this forum.
