SE Needs to Market FFXIV/Offer 10 Day Free Trials

[Levian]

Do I really need to point out the myriad of fishing bots that used to be set up in FFXI for the sole purpose of catching and auctioning off/vendoring moat carp? It's just 1 example of many that could be done en masse without hampering much of anything really. I'm sure if you think outside the box you can find something similar bots can accomplish in this game. Considering the quick (especially by comparison to FFXI) respawn of mobs, killing everything on the map isn't as much of a deterrent as you might think either.

It may not occur as often in games that use copper/silver/gold increments either. But if you look even there you can find work arounds. Taking an example from WoW, picking peacebloom, an item any lvl 1 herbalist could get could net 20 gold a stack when they added the inscription profession to the game. And last I played, they still sold fast and for about 2 gold a stack. I was rolling around on a lvl 19 character with more gold than my other toon had at 50. Of course it goes without saying no one cares about RMT in WoW because gold flows like water and has no value. I don't know why people buy it, but to each his own.

You write off "lowbie stuff" as worthless because performing it manually with a single toon on an account you paid for isn't getting your money's worth out of the game. To a cheater who's abusing the living hell out of free trials, things take on a different light. It becomes worth the money to setup the machines, because bots don't need a fantastically expensive lag free machine to operate. Let's also remember that most RMT operations are in countries where a dollar or euro goes much farther. And adding more exponentially increases the amount of in game currency you net. They pay for themselves, and I'm sure IGE has made millions off them. I'm willing to bet that any MMO offering a free trial has some facet that RMT abuse.