Botting on the marketboard. Impossible to sell anything.

[Prrringles]

You do understand that to be able to sell gil to players they need to sell things right? The selling is being done by BOTS. I can probably point out at least 3/4 of the bots on the market board by myself without any help that the STF might have. Find the bots > find the crafter/gatherer/free company they belong to > follow the money/gil > nuke anyone who touched that money/gil and everyone in between.

I posted this earlier but I will say it again. SE needs more people dealing with this. Expand GM teams and give them the power to ban. And expand the STF to abroad with people who understand English.
You dont need sophisticated systems or change the way the MB works. Just get more people in who pro-actively search out these people and nuke them.

[dspguy]

You do understand that to be able to sell gil to players they need to sell things right? The selling is being done by BOTS. I can probably point out at least 3/4 of the bots on the market board by myself without any help that the STF might have. Find the bots > find the crafter/gatherer/free company they belong to > follow the money/gil > nuke anyone who touched that money/gil and everyone in between.

I posted this earlier but I will say it again. SE needs more people dealing with this. Expand GM teams and give them the power to ban. And expand the STF to abroad with people who understand English.
You dont need sophisticated systems or change the way the MB works. Just get more people in who pro-actively search out these people and nuke them.

I don't want bots either, but why would SE bother? How many millions of subs do they have?

If SE's pocket isn't being hurt, why fix it? The same argument applies to housing.

Until players leave en masse due to a problem like bots (or housing), SE doesn't have an incentive to do anything about it.

[Prrringles]

I don't want bots either, but why would SE bother? How many millions of subs do they have?

If SE's pocket isn't being hurt, why fix it? The same argument applies to housing.

Until players leave en masse due to a problem like bots (or housing), SE doesn't have an incentive to do anything about it.

Yes. This has been established already. SE doesn't care.

[Drip]

Yes. This has been established already. SE doesn't care.

To say they don't care is a little silly. They care, it's just not a high priority.

[dspguy]

To say they don't care is a little silly. They care, it's just not a high priority.

It would be one thing if it was like saying I don't care that my house is on fire because my kid is drowning. However, considering what we see in patch notes, it clearly is the bottom priority. Remember when they added the ability to add retainer comments? That was a higher priority. Being able to select which currency we see in the currency window... that was a higher priority than marketboard botting. Fixing the name of a few items from ARR... that was a higher priority.

Let's just make it clear. Of course MB botting is not the highest priority. But SE is telegraphing to us that it is pretty much the lowest priority considering everything else they are addressing.