As a Player (Score 1)

As a player I can appreciate efforts to prevent cheating in the game. But I have to say that gliders don't bother me much. The fact is that Bliizard has designed WoW to require huge amounts of farming...experience, materials, and gold. Things that should be fairly basic and not too expensive, such as a flying mount that doesn't go slower than your land-based mount, cost a ridiculous amount of money. Since there are so many other things in the endgame that can take up time, their dedication to these hamster wheels is frustrating. The game is so very good that it overcomes these things. It's just that most players struggle with the economic aspects of the game because they are based around how much time you can dedicate to miindlessly killing/mining/pulling weeds.

In essence, a glider program takes the games only limitless resource...respawning mobs...and allows players to bypass the artificial barrier of time needed to acquire basic resources. Then they can actually spend their game time PLAYING the game. For people like me that work for a living, this would be invaluable.

I do not use these programs, but I can sympathize with their use. The people that hate them the most are the hardcore 14-hour-a-day players who currently dominate the game economies. They rightfully see these applications as allowing more casual players to compete with them for materials and money. So long as the bots are used for those pruposes, I think they would be fine...but even better would be if Blizzard would allow for professions to be profitable, or maybe add interest to the bank...something that would give players another way to earn money besides going out and digging ditches.

And as a final note, I do not particularly like the use of the bots to level characters. Far too many players lack even basic playskill if they do gain every level the hard way. I won't begrudge them doing so, but it's sad for them and everyone else in a group with them. And the worst of all: doing your grind where the mobs you are killing are quest targets for other players. That's the most egregious thing of all.