Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[Kes13a]

That is exactly why I just quit crafting in batches. I craft the odd glamour item here and there if I can get the leather cheap or maybe flip a mount once in a while but that's it. Can't be bothered anymore and I can't blame others for quitting. SE just took all the fun out of crafting with their "Ishguard screw up" and not taking on the bots.

I agree. pretty much that portion of the game is pointless to me, much the same as pvp (which never interested me anyway) mind you, part of the crafting that issue that bothers me more now are the "botting will always exist so just accept it" crowd. who will remain silent because "its not worth worrying over". I agree its not worth losing focus on everything else over, but cheating should always be punished and pushed against, and I think companies should always do more than give it lip service.

[Prrringles]

I agree. pretty much that portion of the game is pointless to me, much the same as pvp (which never interested me anyway) mind you, part of the crafting that issue that bothers me more now are the "botting will always exist so just accept it" crowd. who will remain silent because "its not worth worrying over". I agree its not worth losing focus on everything else over, but cheating should always be punished and pushed against, and I think companies should always do more than give it lip service.

Well, bots only "exist" because SE lets them exist. Their passive stance baffles me. We (the players) can only do so much and it is not "our" job to fix this problem. SE should be keeping their streets clean but instead choose the easy way out and stay silent. Every day I see groups of bots teleporting through the world, killing things while being underground. How the hell do they allow that? I'm not a programmer but surely there must be a line of code that says "this action or pathing is illegal" triggering an instant disconnect or ban. Anyway..we all sound like broken records in here..it's kind of sad. Frankly I don't know what else we can do other than to accept the *bleep* state of the game. Apparently SE thinks it's all nice and dandy so yeah...why bother.