Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[Prrringles]

Small update. The "usual" craft/marketboard bots seem to have left Chaos data center. But we got item spammers from Elemental data center in return.. 2 crafters from Atomos server JP spamming items on Chaos worlds EU...with random letter retainer names.. yeah right. Items are restocked endlessly on Moogle at least.. May be all connected.

[Jojoya]

Small update. The "usual" craft/marketboard bots seem to have left Chaos data center. But we got item spammers from Elemental data center in return.. 2 crafters from Atomos server JP spamming items on Chaos worlds EU...with random letter retainer names.. yeah right. Items are restocked endlessly on Moogle at least.. May be all connected.

One of our suspected local bots disappeared and a google search by character name/world showed the Lodestone link now displaying a character on a Chaos world. Maybe one of the rings is shuffling its characters around?

[Prrringles]

One of our suspected local bots disappeared and a google search by character name/world showed the Lodestone link now displaying a character on a Chaos world. Maybe one of the rings is shuffling its characters around?

Can you DM me the name so I can check it out?

[ItMe]

Can you DM me the name so I can check it out?

We can DM people on these forums?
How?

[Prrringles]

We can DM people on these forums?
How?

Nvm apparently we can't. I didn't even notice.

[Archiekins]

Small update. The "usual" craft/marketboard bots seem to have left Chaos data center. But we got item spammers from Elemental data center in return.. 2 crafters from Atomos server JP spamming items on Chaos worlds EU...with random letter retainer names.. yeah right. Items are restocked endlessly on Moogle at least.. May be all connected.

Can confirm, all timed node gathering bots are gone (tho gatherers that spam low level mats are still there.) , doubt it will take them too long to replace though. The crafter ring however, has probably been banned on Chaos, their activity stopped right around the biggest RMT ban wave a little over a week ago (around 10k accounts perma banned), It's highly likely that the bot ring got hit on all DCs and Worlds by it, 7k accounts banned that were involved in RMT or RMT+botting aka gil holders, retainer shuffling dummies, crafters, gatherers etc.