well if u had an option to get rid of months of tedious farming and painfully boring task of IOing a toon wouldnt you go for it?
if your goal in the game is to have fun pvping, then finding a way to remove the pve BS from your gameplay is just natural.
besides, they never used to perma ban on first offense before, even for ridiculous exploits. you remember the IO duping where u can spam click the create button on an IO and as long as u had the salvage, it would craft as many as u could click within server ticks. many many people abused that far worse, and didnt even get a temp ban. they actually just fixed their game instead of putting it on the players.
same with rikti farms. there were farms before the AE too. they would never have banned, even temporary, for farming before. they just would try to limit it and nerf it.
it shouldnt be the players responsibility to uphold the game. anyone with half a brain would know that if there is an exploit or an easy way out, then majority of players are going to try and go that way. its just human nature. most people are reward seekers and couldnt give two [censored] about earning it. its the devs responsibility to fix the game, not the players responsibility to play on some fine line never knowing exactly what the devs consider to be ban-worthy and hoping that when they try and level fast its not this arbitrary 'too fast' that they can get banned for now.
