And averaging playtime is hard you miss a day you would need to do double to means check. Maxing isn't even appealing with how much work it requires. I have observed mudkip on YouTube start an ironman per month or 2 before me and max in about a year, he's since started an eventual ironman that is heading towards max while I'm still in the RS gold midgame. He is playing the same articles for the time, making the exact same jokes and commentary and it simply looks like a massive waste of time. I watch his movies occasionally because I used to actually enjoy them but today it just looks sad.

What about this argument: Say I played Runescape since 2002. Before RS3 came out, maxed, spent my summers as a child grinding my levels out to reach that end game content. I come back years later to find those levels transferred to a game I fucking despise. However, Runescape I loved still exists! I just have to regrind everything to do exactly what I like doing. Is it incorrect to purchase gold with the cash I now devote my free time grinding out? In order to reobtain levels I already earned? Why?

"Is it morally not right to pay money for some other people to level up your accounts, because you have achieved the same levels in a different version of Runescape". It is a solo MMORPG game. Not teamwork. You are supposed to work on your own account, not pay other people to do it as you can not be arsed. If you can not put time in or do not, then enjoy what you could do with the levels and equipment you have. If you play yourself and purchase the gold through bonds that is fine. It's not ok if you utilize those bonds to pay somebody else to do it for you then no.

The fact that its only a game is enough of a justification. I play Runescape in the background after work to unwind and have fun while doing different things. I have a objective of finding the journal cape. I want to achieve the cape because its a term goal I can enjoy the travel towards. The diary cape requires unlocking bones. Solving 500 mazes in the mage training stadium was neither fun nor relaxing. For having finished it, I gained zero pleasure out of it, I feel nothing. This wasn't part of the journey I cared for, I wish I had skipped it.Obtaining family or a job is NOT an excuse to bot or use OSRS services

I have seen a lot of people commenting that this activity is fine because some people dont have the opportunity to play Runescape attacking. Some say it doesnt matter because what someone else achieves shouldnt effect you. This exact same logic can be used to defend MTX or botting in RS3 at the OSRS buy gold exact same way. It self absorbed to think that everyone but you doesnt have even a job or family. It is not a justification.