Botting is getting worse.

[Galdous]

Actually Basic economics: More of an item in stock decreases the price. They may make whatever grand number you speculated without a confirmed source, but truth be told, bots farm and sell stuff I really don't want to bother getting myself, like carbonized matter(insert any grade). In terms of materia, the price drops because any rmt worth his grain will under cut an actual player, again decreasing the value of the item. The real problem stems from the playerbase who will buy the gil, and that is what inflates prices on goods and adds the influx of gil to any server. Keep in mind the bot(s) are in the business of selling the items cheaply to get the gil fast to sell for real currency; it's the playerbase that buys said gil who will in turn not care to pay 25-30 million for a Coffin Lid(e.g) It does defy the ToS and the servers would be better off without them, but your ire is deflected on the wrong party.

There are as many casual botters now as RMT botters. Both are bad for business on the legit player side of things and just because he is using the casual side of botting for his ire it does not denigrate the argument. When people who bot and are known botters on one of the largest servers possess multiple houses it still affects the normal player. The person might not have been able to afford said houses if they were forced to play the way legit players are. It is this overwhelming advantage that ruins the MMO market the same as first person shooter market dealing with aim bots and teleport hacks.

And chances are the rmt botters are using in house systems so possibly altering how commands in the client ids are handled may help break the mold of bots. Api based programs that inject directives into the dll files can be broken but would require a massive rewrite of the client and possibly encrypted commands which would be an arm and leg to costs..