Evening,

i don't see the reason why players participating in this should be punished, for the simple reason of it being obvious!! before that it would offer an easy chance to farm esos. Especially when the team implements a new relic quests which requires ton of esos, players will ofc develop a strat to get their relic quick, resulting in using strats like this.

This is nothing different from pvp rank farming in wolves den back when it was popular to wintrade for a quick rank improvement.

And not different from wintrading on Triple Triad Tournaments for winning them.

Even though I did not participate in any of those, I can completely understand that people don't want to spend time in old CT's or grinding hunts for the X Time or grinding old dungeons for the X time just to get their relic, and If the game offers the chance to achieve your goal faster in a legal way, I don't see any problems, except that obviously SE did not overthink their own moves beforehand.