Do Bots Show That MMORPGs are Pointless?

That’s the bold claim that Tobold made last week – the prevalence of bots and botting in MMORPGs shows that they’re actually nothing more than repetitive, simple tasks.

It’s already been a controversial claim, but he does have a really interesting point:

“Apart from players wanting to bot a game activity, which shows that the activity isn’t all that interesting, the second problem is bots being so perfectly able at performing those activities, showing how repetitive and simple the things we are supposed to do in a MMORPG are in the first place. Douglas Adams’ book “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” contains a paragraph about the electric monk, “a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself”. Bots play tedious games for you, thus saving you the bother of playing the games yourself. What does it say about our games if we need labour-saving devices to do those tedious, repetitive, and trivial game activities for us?”

Read more here: The Problem With Botting

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