Current mood:	Amazed
Current music:	The sound of gamers fapping

FFXI wank with incredible staying power.

On August 25, 2004, "Mia Consalvo, an associate professor in the School of Telecommunications at Ohio University," according to her about page, posted to her blog, MemoryCard, about cheating in FFXI.

Wank ensued.

StReEtSoLdIeR made this ever so scintillating post to start it off: i think those bots r dumb :P ppl r just lazy i mean farmin for gil is fun (in the tower) so i heard bout these bots for a while and i was told if ur caught afk they terminate ur playonline account not just ur FFXI one and i didn't pay to getk kicked so im not usin a bot ne time soon :P well g2g l8r dyz

Someone needs to pay more attention to English class than FFXI.

Then Ashley accuses PlayOnline of conspiracy to scam players, using this as a justification to bot, <s>never mind that botting is more of an offense against one's fellow players than PlayOnline</s>

... whines about his friend, who is doing badly in school thanks to MMORPGs. This begins a bit more drama.

Sakono calls both of them "dumb asses," in an ill-fated attempt to get everyone to STFU.

Me, Not You, calls everyone newbies and defends his "right" to bot. Apparently someone rewrote the Constitution.

Someone else asks for bot macros, <s>never mind that that isn't even the point of the post.</s>

That Guy and Nekhekh attempt to bring some sense to the discussion, albeit in netspeak. My eyes, they burn.

Hellion whines loudly and goes emo.If i have a fish bot i would use it but nope i dont and i dont know where to get one can someone plz help me! i got so pissed off at these dumb ass people in the dunes the other day! that i said fuck it and started suiciding in to the gobs for like 3hrs i lost 16lvls! the i almost quit! but then my Ffxi wife cam and calmed me down i was pissed off cuz of these stupied people talking shit to me! Their is no way in hell to do anything u want to do on ffxi! i love to go out and hunt NM's with my wife but we can never the then cuz of stupied botters!! Help me get a fish bot so i can make some gil and get my wife the armor she wants plzzz!!! thanks Hellion (server Asura)

gilMakah and other_guy provide some sensible advice, with other_guy telling him to STFU. "Wow dude. Get a life. If anyone messes up their real life for a fake one, they've got problems. Don't blame the game. Try this thing called taking responisibility for your actions." Truer words were never spoken, and this should have ended the wank, but no. . .

Shinoe also tries to restore sanity to the wank, but it doesn't last for long.

Anonamous invokes teh law and reads everyone the official riot act, and they're off!

Seriously, this thread started in August 2004, and the latest post is December 18, 2005.

Will this wank ever stop?

ETA: Some of the links may be incorrect. I realized mid-post that the name of the poster was at the bottom of the post, not the top.