Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[Shinzan]

Can I have your gil? Im on Moogle. Send me a tell, I will "keep it safe" if you ever return.

after checking the market I'm selling some remaining goods for 98 gil (unfortunately in stacks of 99 mostly since I had 9 full retainers), and my remaining 50k shards/crystals/clusters already sold for 7 gil.
I'll keep some gil on my character if I should decide to return for the free to play campain, or my FC pays for the monthly cost because they would like me back. the rest is already distributed to my FC friends. They really deserve it, we had so much fun time together e.g. running Syrcus Tower or The Wolves' Den FC internal only in the old days.

to keep it on topic of this thread I'll add some market related information: the "random name" market bots were not reappearing at my summoning bell since 2 days, but the 2 "master rings" were not detected yet. since the "random name" market bots were only responsible for quick shard price manipulation the prices went up a bit and the manipulation is slower since the 2 "master rings" (i have detected easily, maybe there are more) are throttling their spawns, using smart city rotation and even change summoning bells from time to time (but mostly they use the far end of the market). all this aggressive botting is an effect of COVID-19 and one day it will go back to normal levels for sure, I wish everybody good luck and have a safe journey!
and to the moderators and STF teams who eventually read this and talk about it: after so many years of playing this game (/ptime = 1783 days, 19 hours, 29 minutes) i can clearly tell the difference if a character is logging in, or raising from below ground level!

[Prrringles]

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I don't know you but it's sad to see you leave the game. SE won't care though, but their success will be short lived once more and more veteran players leave the game. End of the day this is just a game. Once a game stops being fun and turns into frustration it's better to quit.

Oh well at least our lives are better than those of the people running the bots. Let them craft 24/7 in their sweatshops with no light at the end of their tunnel. But a sub is a sub..right SE?