Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[Lieri]

On Gilgamesh near Limsa MB there's this one character that has been online for months. The only time they were off was during maintenance but after that the normal service resumed - starring at the summoning bell all day everyday. It's pretty weird and so blatant. What else do you think they're doing? just clicked on summoning bell and stepped away from the computer? I thought they had AFK protection that made it so you can't avoid getting kicked out by opening a window menu.

[Prrringles]

On Gilgamesh near Limsa MB there's this one character that has been online for months. The only time they were off was during maintenance but after that the normal service resumed - starring at the summoning bell all day everyday. It's pretty weird and so blatant. What else do you think they're doing? just clicked on summoning bell and stepped away from the computer? I thought they had AFK protection that made it so you can't avoid getting kicked out by opening a window menu.

Meh, I do that all the time too. Doesn't mean that much imo. Suspicious at best. Most bots run multiple characters across worlds so they log in and out frequently.

[Kes13a]

On Gilgamesh near Limsa MB there's this one character that has been online for months. The only time they were off was during maintenance but after that the normal service resumed - starring at the summoning bell all day everyday. It's pretty weird and so blatant. What else do you think they're doing? just clicked on summoning bell and stepped away from the computer? I thought they had AFK protection that made it so you can't avoid getting kicked out by opening a window menu.

this would be a bit odd. I mean the assumption is they are selling, but then they would need to leave to either pick up the items to sell from the mail, or craft themselves

[dspguy]

On Gilgamesh near Limsa MB there's this one character that has been online for months. The only time they were off was during maintenance but after that the normal service resumed - starring at the summoning bell all day everyday. It's pretty weird and so blatant. What else do you think they're doing? just clicked on summoning bell and stepped away from the computer? I thought they had AFK protection that made it so you can't avoid getting kicked out by opening a window menu.

There is nothing in the TOS that says you can't stare at the summoning bell all day, nor does it say you can't relist items 1000 times per day. While it might be obvious what they are doing, proving that it is automated isn't so easy.