I know that there are plenty of trolls taking advantage of the topic, but it is buck wild to me that there is also a non-negligible number of people who are earnestly defending the idea of a rotation bot being a viable way to play the game outside of the most trivial content.
I’m just thinking of all the times in the last 20 years, including in the recent delve discussions, that someone has said something to the effect of how we might as well just log in and collect rewards from our mail box instead of having to actually do anything for them. And of course it was hyperbole to try and make a point; just a completely outlandish notion that it was absurd to even bring up. Of course.
Except… we seem to have leapfrogged that hyperbolic hypothetical and gone straight to defending literal botting. Not the “botting” that so many addon boomers think is happening when you create an aura to track the duration of a buff, but like actual, real botting. Botting like the kind grandma used to whip up in her kitchen at 6AM every Saturday morn.
Took, what, 36 hours? To go from trying to calm people down because they were blowing this niche accessibility feature out-of-proportion, to being called ableist for suggesting that it shouldn’t allow you to compete in serious content with people who aren’t botting? Wild.
It makes it a rotation bot. The rotation is 99% botted.
I’ll make sure to let the fellas in the FPS community know that they’ve been mistaken this whole time about people aim botting. You see, those people weren’t botting – they still had to move their character!
WoW isn’t just a MMORPG anymore. It’s a market economy trading game - some people log in just to play the AH. It’s a dress up simulator complete with “ride” collection. A pet battling and collecting game. And soon it will be a housing simulator.
Not everyone wants to engage with every aspect of the game and Blizzard has allowed everyone to opt out of parts they don’t like.
Now we get to opt out of combat or at least the rotation knowledge part.
Why does Blizzard think this is OK? Because of us. We convinced them it’s not a crime to opt out of content you don’t like when we nagged until they isolate PvE and PvP - because PvPers just want to PvP and PvEers don’t want to PvP for gear.
If you can opt out of PvE or PvP … why not allow players to opt out of memorizing rotations, a part of the game that has gotten quite complex and some players just don’t want to engage.
"Botting, also known as automated scripting, refers to the use of software bots to perform repetitive tasks in online environments without human intervention. These bots are programmed to simulate human behavior, allowing them to interact with websites, applications, or games. They operate autonomously, mimicking human actions such as clicking buttons, navigating through interfaces, or entering data…
… Additionally, bots can execute tasks with precision and consistency, eliminating human error and ensuring accuracy. They can also be programmed to follow specific rules or algorithms, allowing them to make decisions based on pre-defined criteria."
Guess what. Just because you have to reactivate the bot by pressing one button doesn’t make it not a bot.