I play and I'm not a botter.
*Throws a biscuit*
Now tell me why you play the game, a solid reason.
There is no reason that i can think of, except for nostalgia, the games 2d graphics, your PC sucks, or playing because friends play, which are all bad reasons..
The game brings nothing that another "better" MMO doesn't bring.
- Oh & re-read my post, i re-wrote it, because i have a bad habbit of editing my posts instead of thinking about everything first, then writing =D
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I was thinking & i should just clarify because i don't think i made myself completely clear, i have a hard time doing that i blame the language.
What am trying to understand is why people currently play & what if for example you were a "New Player" would make you want to start / continue playing.
The game as it stands it mostly full of botters which i don't care about, botting never ruined tibia for me not in the slightest, & i know when i first started playing Tibia, i enjoyed the constant fear, the emotion it brought, the frustration at times, the constant exploring & wondering, lore & quest wise, it was filled with potential & possibility, and the fact that PVP was a major issue & thing, it required skill & was rewarding & in some cases a giant loss, the game had emotion & conviction, it knew what it wanted to be.
The game isn't like that anymore, it's like gradually CIP are trying to just make money & are pushing updates that are making it fun & enjoyable everyday & all day, but the problem with that is, you're then competing with other MMORPGs, the same thing happen to world of warcraft if i were to bring in another example, when that game first came out it was similar in some respect, but now it's a very easy game & they are gradually updating it in that direction, the same thing they're doing with Diablo 3 mostly because they're trying to market it towards a mainstream console market.
From what i get, most of us here played Tibia for more or less the same reasons, that has now gone & it is just another game in the vast pool of other MMORPGs that exist, it no longer has what it used it, it's gone all of it.