Final Thoughts

[KageTokage]

Honestly, I think they did a better job than whats going on in XIV now. From what I am seeing, SE is just letting them do whatever, and most of them farm Shards, hence why the prices are so low, since no one wants to farm shards. Tbh a good thing really. Probably why SE lets those particular Bots be.

I don't know if your server is just a weird case or something but I almost never see shard bots on mine. They mostly go after ephermal/unspoiled nodes so they can farm mats to produce the latest relevant crafts, though there is a mob of bots (Whom I suspect to all be owned by the same person given certain evidence) who farm gather/crafting scrips instead.

Allowing cheaters to dictate the economy in any form or fashion whatsoever really is not something that any self-respecting MMO would do, though. Even if they were such an essential part of the economy, any price spikes caused by their removal would eventually level out to be appropriate for the amount of demand and people would just adjust and start getting shards themselves.