Lack of action against gathering bots, it needs to be changed, and soon

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The irony here is you won't actually get an argument from most people that both should be policed better. Regardless, they aren't the same thing. Someone buying a Savage clear pays a group with real money, said group clears the content on their account and everyone goes about their merry way. A gather bot, meanwhile, collects all their spoils and sells them on the market board—purposely tanking prices because even if something sells for 1,000 gil. It's all pure profit for them.

One impacts the service economy while the other impacts the buyer's wallet.

FYI: People selling clears negatively impacts the entirety of the game more than that lone player dumping 9999 logs for 500 gil each or that group of Aethersand bots selling aethersands for 300gil each.

1 Group is making things cheaper, while the other is promoting Elitism, Toxicity and Sabotaging PUG Ex/Savage Groups.

If you shutdown players selling clears, more ppl would be more inclined to help get other ppl get their clears instead of having a dollar value attached to it. You will also have more successful PUG Groups since nobody there is going to purposely sabotage it, purposely making it fail so ppl would get frustrated and give up in hopes these players would just buy the clear/item drops.

These ppl selling clears also creates a false narrative that FFXIV's endgame is Raids/Ex Trials when in fact it's just a minor optional content like Lord of Vermillion or Chocobo Racing. The game is better off if they made an improved version of Eureka. SE is literally wasting so much Dev Time creating "Hard" Content for a very small percentage of the playerbase when they should be doing content that can be enjoyed by everyone.