They're constantly doing things about bots, just like other MMORPGs. And the bots are constantly countering those efforts.

As long as players are more concerned about what rewards they get than playing a game for fun, there will be players more interested in paying their way to what they want than earning the rewards through their own effort. As long as the latter exists, there will be bots to cater to them.

If there's a market for a service and a profit to be made, then a service provider will appear. Shut down one provider and another will take their place. At this point, might as well call bot annoyance a staple of MMORPGs.

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And yeah it likely all boils down to gil farming and rmt and those that buy gil. So yeah I think I agree and that the penalties for being caught buying gil should be extremely harsh.
A lot of the buyers are relatively young and don't really understand all the ramifications. They're too used to their parents handing them money so they can get what they want. So they want X item, X item costs Y gil, they buy Y gil from a RMT vendor so they can purchase the item thinking it's the normal way to do things.

Most MMORPGs will give a buyer a 3-6 month ban the first time they're caught to see if they've learned from the experience. Losing access to their account for that long will leave an impression on most and they won't buy again in the future.

If they're caught buying (or cheating in other ways) a second time, then they give the account a permanent ban.