It's obviously more harmful than the actual 'bots' and other such... but oh well.

They could just do what they usually do, remove the loot or lower the price of them somehow to make it not worth it (well, I guess removal is the only way to make it not worth it since when no effort is being put into it, even 1 Gil is profit).

I find it a little bit strange that they had to announce this. I'm sure there are players who never even thought of such a thing, but now know about it (counter-productive). Similar to when they added Moogles that everyone could see to ask players not to use sploits (while cute, the players who do not cheat and use 3rd party tools would not have known about the particular exploit if they did not read about it somewhere, or if the Moogles weren't there to inform them).
The thing with that is, if players couldn't even exploit it without using 'cheats', why not ban them, why just warn them? It makes no sense. Already the fact that you needed sploits to even see it, should have been enough to outright banish the accounts of said players. Not to mention what they did with the feature itself was obviously wrong.

That is of course a lot different from this particular issue, where no third-party stuff is needed. Perhaps they could add something like an avatar time-out, if you're not moving or doing anything else within a certain amount of time, the Avatar will not automagically attack foes? ^^;

Obviously, most people would get around that with 'bots'.


/sigh