I agree wholeheartedly. I have been playing FFXIV for several years, starting with a Realm Reborn and it's re-release. Just as you and several others have mentioned, I cannot express into words how frustrating and aggravating the bots have made the game. It has destroyed the economic system in Final Fantasy. For us true players it makes it nearly impossible to benefit from crafting and gathering and hope for any form of profit off of the market board. And then for those characters to severely undercut the market board forcing us to sell our materials and items for significantly less just to survive. And then they go and buy out the market board at the lower rate that they caused and then resell it at ridiculous prices. And the fact that we cannot match their money we cannot hope to even begin to reset the market board.

Unfortunately after considering everything I do not believe that much will be done about this. As we all know Square Enix makes money from our subscription fees. If you consider that they find the bots and ban their accounts. They will just create new accounts and pay a brand-new subscription fee just to remain in business. Also if you consider how much money that the bots are making from the RMTs that they can afford to continue to pay those subscription fees after they've been banned. For all the complaints we are only paying $12-$15 a month, per person. If you were to say that bots owner is banned four times in a month Square Enix has made about $60 off of that one person. Creating an email account, is free . Just as creating a Square Enix account is free. So even though that account has been banned , they just create a new one. So I believe the banning will continue, but a true fix of eliminating the botting or RMT altogether I don't believe they will do anything about it considering the money that they are making from them as well. It saddens me, I must admit. And I do hope that they care enough about the true fans and not about money to do something about it because it does make this game feel like it is not worth playing.