What's sad is this thread. You all should really just give up. Your obviously part of a very, very small minority, literally like 0.00001% of population cares not to mention your wasting valuable play time whining about something that cannot be fixed. The majority of people don't care and some even enjoy the abundance of cheaper craft material / crystals / materia that no one really wants to farm. If anything you should bitch about how difficult it is to get materia etc which is what makes farming it profitable for gold sellers.

There are better ways of dealing with the issues. Banning a bot that's gonna have a replacement right back farming in 5 minutes is not going to do anything.

The best tool SE has is the ability to control the economy which means following the money. Maybe you should have a little bit of faith that SE are dealing with it in the manner they see is a best fit for the player environment and get over it.