It's not about whether the cheats or bots existed in the past. I'm confident they did. It's about the experience that the online game is now mostly bots playing

It's not about whether the cheats or bots existed in the past. I'm confident they did. It's about the experience that the online game is now mostly bots playing with bots. I mean, they're programmed to work in teams. So, for example, you might enter a game and find that 7 out of the 8 players (8 players is the max per game) are bots doing a speed run. And those are pretty much the only games you see. I'm sure something similar existed in the past, but it definitely wasn't as visible. And I'm not an active gamer, so that was the first time I experienced it. It just completely trivialized the game. Whenever you needed an item, someone would eventually find out and just give it to you for free. At least back in the day there was an economy where things had value. People even paid for participating in certain events. What made the game fun was the challenge of progress and the excitement of getting that rare drop.