Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[ItMe]

One of these days someone needs to explain how market bots inflating prices to insane levels on one side, and cutting down to mat costs on the other to keep legit crafters out of the market are "good for the economy"

Please, let's.
That's entirely what my question was seeking to explore.

Meanwhile in reality.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._the_high_end/

That's chilling and sad and I hope SQEX sees this as their wakeup call, but my question wasn't about bots so I'm struggling to understand how this relates.
I know I'm being a little confusing as I am posting this tangent on a thread about bots. But I tried asking a general question about the markets.

[Dragonkat]

That's chilling and sad and I hope SQEX sees this as their wakeup call, but my question wasn't about bots so I'm struggling to understand how this relates.
I know I'm being a little confusing as I am posting this tangent on a thread about bots. But I tried asking a general question about the markets.

Suggested reading though to be fair this is a tangent too more bot related.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...or_the_games/?

The two are intertwined though as bots are in most cases hyper inflating items like 300K for an aesthete ring of crafting (Stupid high and bad) Legit crafters trying to compete to a reasonable price will have to basically bell camp as the bots will every few minutes undercut them by a couple gil (time sink, so bad for them as they do not have infinite time, unlike a scripted bot) And depending on the scripting the bot may undercut to a point where the time needed to make the item is not worth the gain you make, or basically go so low you crash the market (worst)

And any attempt by players to crash a market on purpose defeats the whole goal. We aren't competing against each other in true "market pvp" to reach a fair price. we're trying to drive artificial inflation off the MB, and it's a futile cause to do so via the MB. You can't crash a market because the bots in 10 man crafter FC's will just rebound much faster than any player can. So at best you might make a dent for a day in pricing, provided again the players don't buy that ring at 49,995 instead of 50,000.

AND! (big AND!) here's the part where i honestly feel like joyjoya does not get it. The inflated prices fuel the need for RMT. But at he same time the gil that funds RMT coffers is the eventual sales when we try to undercut bots or other players paying out the rear for overpriced gear.

Banning an RMT spammer is pointless because the gil still exists off on another account. Banning the gil at the source would solve the problem because then the sellers wouldn't have any. That's why this if it doesn't bother me it's not a big deal look on life drives me up the wall.

Granted Ishgard made this that much harder, since now leveling an omni is nowhere near the time sink it was back in ARR when i made my first million off amethyst rings of all things. But we need to start somewhere or we may as well just pack it in and only craft for friends. Cause right now the MB is a lost cause that SQ needs to address, and imo?

NAMES NEED TO BE NAMED

The fact botters get to hide behind that rule too and trying to call them out just gets the accusers banned is another 500lb fat chocobo that needs to be dealt with too. More so when you can basically present them with mountains of evidence and the STF does NOTHING. It keeps them from being pressured to admit how large a problem it really has become.

[ItMe]

Suggested reading

That was a good read. Thank you.

No matter how you look at it, bots are BAD for the market/economy.

I agree and I don't think anyone is arguing against you.