Okay now the botting is getting a little out of hand...

[Tilvalia]

All games have bots. It's just a fact of the matter and something you will have to live with.

[KageTokage]

There has been a definite increase in the number of bots RMT and otherwise even in the month or so leading up to ShB.

They also seem to be trying new methods aside from the usual "farming Amdapor Keep for gil drops", since I've noticed mobs of poorly geared level 50 THMs solo queueing for the Wanderer's Palace at intervals of every minute or two in player search and bots farming aldgoats and toads in Eastern/Western Thanalan respectively; both types on multiple servers across Aether.

All games have bots. It's just a fact of the matter and something you will have to live with.

While true it doesn't change the fact that it's unacceptably bad in XIV for the fact it's a paid MMO.

This level of botting is more akin to what you'd in see in a low budget F2P MMO that have the excuse of being understaffed.