2008-10-07, 03:55 PM
Well, I voted "against," and I dislike leeching (and leechers) for the same reasons I dislike botting and other means of cheating. Call me old-fashioned, but I play my online games in a sportsman-like manner. In baseball, you don't have someone else bat for you and carry you as they run the bases, then let you touch Home Plate to score; in golf, you can't have someone else play while you follow them around in the cart, then go tap the ball in and claim the score as your own. That's just silly.
We all play this game in our own way, because we all value different things. To me, it's all about what I can accomplish. If I let someone else do the grinding while I hang on a rope and suck up EXP, what have I accomplished? If I buy mesos from gold farmers instead of earning them myself, what have I accomplished? Squat. I'd get no satisfaction from it, and to me that's what playing a game like this is about.
If I get to level 120, it's under my own power. If I ever have a billion mesos (hah!), it'll be because I earned them. I'll be able to sit back and say, "I did this!" I'll be able to feel good about what I've done, because I did it.
We all play this game in our own way, because we all value different things. To me, it's all about what I can accomplish. If I let someone else do the grinding while I hang on a rope and suck up EXP, what have I accomplished? If I buy mesos from gold farmers instead of earning them myself, what have I accomplished? Squat. I'd get no satisfaction from it, and to me that's what playing a game like this is about.
If I get to level 120, it's under my own power. If I ever have a billion mesos (hah!), it'll be because I earned them. I'll be able to sit back and say, "I did this!" I'll be able to feel good about what I've done, because I did it.