Quote Originally Posted by Melichoir View Post
The crux of these discussions at times boils down to "Bots are making it hard for me to dominate the MB." It's not about "making the MB fair and workable for everyone", but rather eliminating the competition so that those already in a position to take over the Bot's share of the market can do so with ease and increase dominance. I doubt these threads would occur if bot activity was greatly limited to items and the like below level 30.
I'm just gonna mention here, some stuff is such as shards, and somewhat by extension, crystals since you don't even need the expac for a bot to farm/sell those.

I also refuse to buy them and farm my own, painfully, because I'm not sick and tired of bots. I don't technically need the market. I got plenty of gil, and can be 10% self sufficient with everything. My problem is how my brain responds to seeing people break rules, and have zip happen. I've always been someone that tries to care about a rule, and when I see others just disregard it and not receive any punishment, it irks me. I end up thinking to myself "Why am I trying to follow them, if others just aren't and aren't punished for it?"

I want the bots gone because there is no argument to be made that they aren't breaking the ToS that I have to comply with. Every time I open my list. player search, and see the same bots gathering the same garbage for the past 8 month despite constant reports, I am literally being told by Square Enix to just do it myself, because what's gonna happen to me? Clearly it's acceptable.