Quote Originally Posted by Aleya View Post
Just a small question. Even though the AH makes a lot of sense, but has everyone forgotten what a mess that became with all the bots? They flooded the AH and made everything SO expensive! It was impossible for me to play! I never want that to happen to FFXIV.
Not defending bots, but I keep hearing bots cause massive inflation over and over and it is simply the opposite being true.

Bot did not make everything so expensive, the RMT mass manipulating the market and HNMLS creating monopolies did.

The botters who spammed the market with goods actually did the opposite.

Supply and Demand... if you crank up the supply really high Prices fall due to demand remaining relatively constant.

The botters might causing minor inflation on raw materials because they are consuming so many, but everything else is becoming dirt cheap compaired to the gil coming in with leves. (every 5 days of leves i can almost buy a whole new set of armor for my 50 glad... that is how cheap things are)