Quote Originally Posted by kidvideo View Post
What is SE is really behind these bots? To stimulate the economy... Clearly they're not doing anything about it.
Even if one were to buy into the idea that they'd choose direct participation as their means of market manipulation (instead of adjusted drop rates/NPC prices/etc.), why on earth would they create a bunch of obvious bots (of various kinds, even) instead of just creating items/gil directly and dumping them into the markets? The latter would be a lot more efficient, a lot easier to implement, and a lot less visible.