The poor RMT's...

[Roez]

I've seen them use this method in FFXI too, over the past year.

It's an old method, and the reason Blizzard put a 1 hour delivery in game on market sales many years ago. This allowed Blizzard to catch transactions by methods unkonwn, though I'm sure it didn't stop the practice completely.

I will say though I never saw many bots in wow and generally whatever they did there, they found a way to do it right. FFXIV is infested, yet I sitll think Guild Wars II was worse. The market in GW2 tanked crazy fast, and you could literally find places where 25 bots were farming easily. At least the market on my FFXIV server has allowed me to make some gil and sell farmed stuff reasonably well.

[sasakusaku]

FFXIV is infested, yet I sitll think Guild Wars II was worse.

To their credit, Anet has more or less eliminated botters and RMTers from the game. It was bad for sure but I have not actually seen a bot nor a gold spammer in GW2 in a loooong time. Maybe they hide better? I dunno. They still went to the effort to get rid of these leeches and by the looks of things actually succeed.

[HurtigeKarl]

To their credit, Anet has more or less eliminated botters and RMTers from the game. It was bad for sure but I have not actually seen a bot nor a gold spammer in GW2 in a loooong time. Maybe they hide better? I dunno. They still went to the effort to get rid of these leeches and by the looks of things actually succeed.

They "eliminated" partially by practically implementing "legal RMT". Which is worse cure than the actual disease.