Quote Originally Posted by HaelseMikiro View Post
Anyways, the point I'm looking at this week is.....HOW could they only find 8 bots the entire week among all the servers? Pretty sure I could stand in 1 place on any given server for 2 hours and come up with better results than that.
Well, they could be tracking a lot more than those 8. We already know they don't ban farming bots immediately when first identified, because by quietly tracking their activity instead, SE gets information about which other accounts the gilsellers use to accumulate and disperse the gil and which accounts are then buying that gil. A low number of farming bots banned, particularly when combined with a fairly high number of "participation" (gil buying) temp bans, could just indicate SE is expanding how long they track the bots, placing more of their efforts on finding gil buyers.

We've seen plenty of threads pointing out the most effective approach is to go after the buyers and remove the gilseller's market. Maybe we'll get a chance to see whether that's true.