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Thanks for the correction, Brian, and my apologies for the error.

Original Comment by: Sam Quibeek Bravo ,what else can I say .Thanks God, there are some people ,who steel care about other people .That is really great .How many people think otherwise? Of course ,sometimes it is very useful to have all new technology not used properly or nonetheless not...

Original Comment by: Aram Saroyan Armstrong http://www.thefarwest.net/ Hey there, thanks for the post. I can valid your claim that you're not making this story up. ;) However, my thesis was not solely centered on playing with dog poo, though cleary a rich medium for artistic expression...

I'm not making this up. Artist Aray Saroyan Armstrong, a student at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Milan, Italy, has completed his thesis project: Pooptopia LBS: Mobile Poop Awareness & Avoidance System [http://pooptopia.com/]. It's an urban location-based game of pet waste...

Original Comment by: Capo Taco A bot with good AI isn't that easy to build. But since most of these games are so dreadfully unchallenging, bots do a better job than humans. Because bots have infinite time and we don't.

Original Comment by: Luddie http://ludwhig.blogspot.com/ In addition to being bad for the game, programs that play a bot are against the EULA of most games. Which makes them illegal, even though most developers don't prosecute based on these violations.

Original Comment by: Davinc This post is directly aimed at my expiriences in Lineage 2. This might have been mentioned before, but most players do not have any trouble with an active player using a second (or third or fourth) account to have own support characters available. Whether they are...

Original Comment by: Cody K. Tom Edwards wrote: ?Why pay an MMO subscription if you are merely competing with AI?? Why pay a subscription if you are merely competing with children who don?t have responsibilities beyond themselves and can spend 12 hours or more each and every day to the game...

Original Comment by: Tom Edwards http://www.steamreview.org/ The situation is worse still in games where the exchnage of in-game money for real is encouraged. I'm pretty sure that Escapist has done something on this facet before. Above that there's always the enjoyment of others, too. Some...

Original Comment by: Claritin The people who are hurt are the people who get in the way of the bot army.... or instance someone who wants to get an item off a rare spawn mob that a bot has been programmed to watch 24x7 and kill instantly... then at the end of the day that item is sold on ebay...

Original Comment by: Cody K. Luddie wrote: ??because they, unlike the buffbots mentioned in the comment, are programs playing the game illegally.? I didn?t know people could ?play? a computer game illegally (aside from pirating, of course). Is this one of those ?victimless? crimes? Who?s...

Original Comment by: Timje http://SA "Many gamers have blamed game companies like NCSoft, saying that they have been deliberately overlooking the use of bots, because they are worried that they may lose profit if bots are banned." This situation is heavily remeniscient of my experiences of...

Original Comment by: Luddie http://ludwhig.blogspot.com/ I wanted to augment some of what was noted above about Dark Age of Camelot. I don't think any MMO company, Lineage or DAoC, has had a problem with the idea of buffbots. They sit, unplayed, providing passive benefits to players. This is...

Original Comment by: Timje http://SA This reminds me rather strongly of a similar game, Dark Ages of Camelot. (DAoC) One of the greatest successes of DAoC was designing RvR warfare that requires a second account. In RvR, DAoC all but requires a user to get a priest to buff the attributes of...

From The Korea Times [http://search.hankooki.com/times/times_view.php?&path=hankooki3/times/lpage/biz/200605/kt2006050917505311880.htm&media=kt], May 9, 2006: "A Seoul court took sides with NCSoft, Korea?s biggest game company in a battle against makers of game cheating programs, but...