Quote Originally Posted by Oxidized View Post
This is not about drama, but about being able to enjoy a game that largely gets casual content right. There is no drama if the bot problem continues and I find myself unable to enjoy the great DoH/DoL systems that the devs created and expanded upon, I simply move on to a game where I believe the playing field to be fairer, even if it is an inferior product. Sadly, I know a few people who have already went this route, and I know that I will probably be joining them in a couple of weeks, only coming back intermittently to check out the major content releases that pique my interest.
Or maybe, if crafters in the west (I heard it's less of an issue on JP servers) would stop charging absurd premiums, botting would not be so lucrative in the first place.

Since s/o mentioned Aethersands, I checked the prices:
Scuroglow: NQ: 9K / HQ: 9K
Chiraoglow: NQ: 4K /HQ: 4K
Agedeep: NQ: 14K / HQ: 15K
Agewood: NQ: 15K / HQ: 16K
Ageflow NQ: 24K / HQ: 24K

Considering that these items take less than 5 minutes of actual playtime to gather, I'd consider them quite profitable (Scuro and Chirao aren't must much anymore because they are for low level items).

So please... forgive me if I can't be up in arms about us gatherers no longer being able to charge 50-100K for an item that is utterly trivial to obtain.

Doesn't mean SE shouldn't crack down on bots ofc. Bot users are cheaters and cheaters deserve to be banned from any multiplayer environment.
If a few survive (and there will always be survivers) it's not the end of crafting as we know it.