Quote Originally Posted by Kes13a View Post
I find it almost impossible to believe that anyone would think cheating is "good for the game" in any sense.

maybe its just me but usually thats a red flag.

these people use 3rd party software, to automate processes so they can essentially... not play the game and gain real life monetary benefits if they are into RMT. how is this good in any way except for them?
I don't think he's saying that cheating is good for the game. He's saying low marketboard prices are good for the game.

Most players aren't going to care why the prices are low. They're just going to take advantage of them.

You had talked last week about deliberately trying to crash prices to mess up the bots and I was seriously thinking about offering to help not because I thought it would do anything about the bots (I know it wouldn't) but because it would lower the prices to get the items into the hands of more players. I've got plenty of gil so very thin profit margins aren't a concern.

On the other hand, most of those stacks of cheap mats on the MB are probably bot source so it would just serve to help the bots after all. It's why I tend to stick to doing most of my own gathering and only buy the odd stacks I see listed on the MB when I'm too lazy to gather but the quantities needed for what you wanted to do would be prohibitive for just two, or even 20, players to get.