Quote Originally Posted by Prrringles View Post
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You better believe I'm blaming the buyer. No one is forced to buy.
A seller without a buyer isn't accomplishing anything other than wasting their time.
But good to know you're a true supporter of RMT, telling others it okay to use it since it's there. You are helping to perpetuate the problem.

Bots always come back. Decades of MMO history full of bot bans and yet they're still here.
And now they can come back faster than ever in FFXIV thanks to recent changes that help speed up leveling.
You're naïve if you think a few bans will get them to disappear when there are still customers willing to pay for their services. They're a business, not children who give up after a few frustrations.

The average player is very much a factor. Who do you is think is buying what you list on the marketboard, the other hardcore crafters?
You probably should ditch that snobbish attitude you're displaying. If you slip and post it in public forums, word might spread. But then I suppose you don't care, you only care about the gil you make off the "plebs".

Source is how the marketboard works? There's no account information exchanged in a marketboard transaction, only the name of the purchasing character. Me buying an item off the MB gives the seller absolutely no information they can use to compromise my account. Perhaps you should provide your source that its the market bots doing the account compromises.

By the way, thanks for agreeing that the problem exists in other games as well. Every time I say that, people jump down my throat insisting it's exclusively a FFXIV problem.

Yes, I'm a crafter. Get that nose out of the clouds, you're not the only player capable of crafting Neo-Ishgardian, nor are you the only one selling it. I never said Neo-Ishgardian isn't selling at all. I said the demand has dried up and the prices have decreased as a result. 80k for 4-8 sales is supposed to be a big deal when there were originally dozens of sales at over half a million per piece even on my low pop server?

If all that gear is selling for at least double what you list it for, why did you sink the price on your world so low and screw the other legitimate crafters there out of profit they could have been making? That wasn't considerate, nor does it seem smart unless your real goal was to drive them out of business.

It makes even less sense when you walk in here complaining that you're selling items at a price not worth the effort when you were the one who intentionally set that price far below what it could have been.

It's not going to do anything to "cancel bot activity". You don't have the selling power as a single player to monopolize the market and shut them out. To do that, you'd need to get multiple accounts with multiple characters to increase the number of listings available to you. And suddenly, you're the bot in other players' eyes.