With ai and how many years making bots do you think they have not developed some that are much harder to detect? And fyi a majority of the botters for rwiting were actually slaves forced to play to grind money to pool to sell. So they were far harder to track. Jagex little known secret. And gambling wasnt clamped down on sooner as they had their hands full with other things at the time. Not that it wasn’t a problem. It was just enforced less except in cases of trust trading scams.
While I am aware of the potential for modern technology to make bots that are significantly harder to detect, you haven’t show evidence of botting becoming significantly more commonplace with gambling being allowed in the game. I also think your point about slaves being forced into labor, while interesting, is fairly unlikely to affect this game, since the Chinese sweatshops that primarily employed these “slaves” wouldn’t see enough of a profit potential in a server so small.
You say gambling wasn’t clamped down on because they didn’t have time. I don’t really think that makes any sense at all. It doesn’t take much time to update the rules of the game. If it took them 12 years to ban gambling outside the Duel Arena, and several years after that to effectively ban staking in the Duel Arena itself, it seems more likely that they just didn’t find it problematic until then.
And what happened in those years? Do you know? They tried everything to keep the games integrity. When they realized they needed drastic actions they took them. Hence trade restrictions and pking being removed. Any means in which a large sum of cash can be transferred from player to player the possibility of rwiting will exist. No question about that.
You can say that its not here yet. I dont see it. Or i dont think that will happen. But you cant offer guarantees. Yet cracking down on gambling before it becomes a problem does. How does it not? Why should we risk it? So a few people can gamble and a few content creators can have content? Risk sacrificing the game for what exactly? Ive yet to hear a valid argument for gambling. Outside you really want to. And excuses as to why it should be here as its authentic. Not a reason.
If something being authentic isn’t a reason to have it in the game, then Pazaz and Jordan are quite lacking in reasons for much of what they’ve put on the server.
Everything about the game’s design is subjective. What’s the valid argument for why PvMing or skilling shouldn’t be removed from the game? Because people really want it in. It’s all subjective. I have given pretty detailed reasons why I want gambling to be in the game in this thread.
I think you’re kind of missing a bit of the point, though: Gambling is allowed and will continue to be allowed. The Duel Arena isn’t being removed. The debate is about whether or not players should be allowed to gamble outside the Duel Arena or whether or not they should be allowed to pool funds. Discussions about gambling as a whole are a bit of a red herring.
Just because something was capable at that time does not mean it should be allowed to continue today. How about duplication glitches? Fallador massacre? Should we allow those as well? The game was buikt around pvming and skilling. It was never built around dueling staking or gambling.
Without skills or pvm wed all be standing around staring into an empty void. Meanwhile if gambling and dueling were removed wed lose what exactly?
you sound awfully like a lobbyist for botters/RWIT
What? Where exactly did you pull that from?