Quote Originally Posted by NekoMataMata View Post
I just explained it to you. This is a game, not real life. It's normal to be competitive, but at the same time we all know how bad undercutting gets. It ends up being a competition of who has the most time to sit there at their retainers swapping the prices out repeatedly(or who can cheat and do it constantly).

Yes, it's not reportable but it's a toxic culture when it reaches a certain point.
Part of the fun of many games is the competition, the drive to win. How fast can I beat this level or boss? if we use this strategy will we beat the other team? If I undercut, can I still be profitable and sell quickly? Marketboard competition is at most slightly irritating or rude, but nothing more. Undercutting isn't inherently toxic, it's just competitive.

I definitely get your point about bots, that I do find to be more toxic as they can just keep lowering it by single gil digits without any input and always put themselves at the top of the marketboard lists, but the undercutting isn't what's toxic, it's the automation of it. I wonder if it's possible to completely tank an items price (and hope no one buys it) to force the bot to undercut it, then just buy it off them for dirt cheap.