Quote Originally Posted by NamidaTekika View Post
The blatant levels I see the bots around the market and gathering is kinda like a mockery though. How long they are allowed to run and the like is just silly. I played wow for years and ya I ran into some bots but those were the exception more than how commonplace and open they appear to be in this game. There isn't a solid solution but they could do LEAPS AND BOUNDS more to even crush ones that are active for months and months on end and garnering multiple reports.
Bots in general have been all over the place in WoW. You weren't paying attention if you rarely saw them.

As for the situation with market bots, who needed a market bot in WoW when you were free to download and use add-ons like TSM and Auctioneer that allowed you to operate at near bot efficiency if you took the time to configure them? You might lose the AH deposit if you cancel and relist but those were usually insignificant in value because they were based on sell to vendor value instead of listing price. I knew a few players who spent almost all their time in the AH canceling and relisting their auctions. Making gold was their primary game play.

I've mentioned it before but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a FFXIV version of TSM out there. We know marketboard scanning tools exist because they've fed information to the various marketboard websites that have appeared from time to time and creating a UI that would make it easier to cancel and relist items based on scanning results shouldn't be that difficult. Such a thing would allow a player to change their prices with almost bot like efficiency. Still against the ToS but not actual botting.