The cake is always a lie

After the recent bg drama wrt Persistence on Midgarsormr, if nothing else I'm glad to see the hypocrisy of many of those who left us for them exposed. "It's not that they bot, it's that the competition is weak," so many of them said. Right. That's why they spent $1500 on a bot, no doubt.

Call me crazy but no matter how rich I become in my life, I will never reach a point where spending four figures of RL cash on a goddamn claimbot strikes me as anything other than rank fucking insanity. I pity anyone for whom the game is worth that much; my own priorities in life, just by virtue of the fact that I play this fucking game, are already more than enough in question.

Artaxerxes is the leader of this particular mentality, and has been a force at least in part responsible for the general evolution of endgame mentality in FFXI that has come, more or less, to accept botting as part of the territory. He's a guy in his 30's who is still infatuated with the whole gangsta "you can hate me, but I won't stop" brand of justifying pathetic behavior by seeking out the like-minded. I wonder if it crosses his mind that nobody really hates him, and that the overriding emotion with regard to him is more likely than not to be pity.