Final Thoughts

[HyoMinPark]

I'm not condoning it at all and there is no question that gather bots have done a lot of bad things to influence the in-game economy, but I would be a big fat liar if I said I don't appreciate super cheap shards/crystals/clusters (no guarantee I bought them from botters, but come on)

Shards are one thing - I was mostly referring to current, high-level mats; especially things like aethersands. That market was destroyed by gathering bots on my server before they were ever purchasable with scrips. Same with current consumables - both food and pots. I know there are also servers where the crafted gear market (e.g., i380 stuff) has been destroyed by people who use bots.

When I buy consumables, I actually pay more to not buy from those I know use botting services to mass craft things.