There is no excuse for things like win trading and botting not being on the radar of the developers. Very few MMO's have been free of such things - and mysteriously very few MMO's deal with the plague efficiently and swiftly. There's the occasional ban wave, sure, though as a couple of people have pointed out in this very thread you can go months doing PvP and seeing the same individuals botting during that period. To say that it is disheartening would be quite the understatement. That the issue has been 'acknowledged' in the form of being downplayed doesn't help, either. Yoshi-P is on record stating that it isn't as widespread as it made out to be and yet day in, day out that is proven wrong simply by queuing up for the PvP roulette.

I enjoy the game as a whole, though I'd be lying if I said I wasn't getting close to just giving up on PvP altogether.