Quote Originally Posted by Penguinmayhem View Post
But the problem with that is all the shard sellers are bots. So just resorting to "well buy them duh" means we're just feeding more gil to gilsellers. You're solving one problem by not actually solving it at all, but also causing a whole new problem.
Not all shard sellers are bots! I make most of my gil by selling shards. I gather them on my Botanist, I get them from completing treasure maps, I get them from levequests. I sell them on the MB because it's a great source of income. Yes, the people selling large quantities (stacks of 1000) of shards are probably bots, but look for the people selling in stacks of 50-500. Many of them are folks like me.