Warren wrote:
Yeah butQuote:
There have been many new developments regarding our botting competitors over the past 24 hours that have left many of you on edge about the future of *popular botting site*. This is understandable. At this time, I want to take the time to remind you of a few things:
Our bot client has been around for 5+ years and has been the longest running bot software available for some time.
Our bot client has always been the frontrunner in technological developments which are often copied by our competitors.
Our competitors made several claims and ETAs about returning only to fail each time and turn their back on customers completely (now supposedly working with Jagex). Sounds like an ulterior motive to me.
Our competitors state that they are confident "you will not see the return of major bot clients to RS". Keep in mind that this is the same competitor that for several months promised you such things as almighty "nano-walking" and several other advancements that have never seen the light of day. Talk is cheap. Why would someone who is now supposedly working with Jagex tell you otherwise?
Our competitors are not on the same intellectual level as our bot client developers.
Our competitors "piggy back" on previous developed projects. Our bot client is, and has always been, a product of our own work from the ground up.
Our bot client developers have a vast knowledge of several technologies outside of the programmatic standards used in botting software today that can be utilized if/when needed.
Our bot client developers are motivated and able to devote 100% of their efforts to developing our software (not distracted by other work, school, etc).
I hope you all understand that it has always been our #1 priority to get our bot client back up and running for you. We are working around the clock (literally) to get our systems back online. We have no plans to take the easy way out as our competitors seem to be doing.
How much value does that have coming from a bot site? None less than what RSBuddy has wrote, but none more. I think one thing to consider is that bot developers have had it pretty easy up until now. It's kinda like being in the army, but not going off to war. Everything is great for five or whatever years and then war breaks out. You've had so much downtime, you haven't had to worry that much about training or fighting day to day. But to go from lots of downtime to fighting everyday or fighting more often, it can be a shock. I think that's what bot developers are facing. They haven't been faced with something like this before or at least in a long time. Therefore, it's reasonable to believe that if bots do come back, it will take a little time.
Yes, I'm going back on my view that they would be back sooner. But as I consider it now, it makes sense that they would be scrambling and putting in a lot of work since they were seemingly caught off guard. Despite whatever Jagex said before the update took place, I don't think either bot developers believed them, or if they did that the scale and effect the update would have on botting would be so great. Give it until the end of the year. If they haven't figured it out by then, there's a good chance most of them have given up or are still working hard at trying to make botting work with not much success.
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