Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[Jojoya]

This is completely the wrong mindset to have, the bots shouldn't be there, period. What you've said boils down to 'suck it up, let the bots win, and be happy making a pittance selling things for low margins'.' On Louisoix there are 4 bots competing with one another on Neo-Ish gear, 2 for High Allagan/Dreadwyrm glams, and another 2 for weapon glams. These bots probably absorb 50M a day that the crafting communities could take and re-invest in helping their friends, novices or housing. Whereas the gil that these bots take is getting sold online. The sales of Neo-Ish gear in particular is still healthy on my server and could be extremely profitiable to human players if they could actually take part in it, but we are being forced out of the game, that we pay money to play, by cheaters. I've started messaging the novice netwrok in my server frequently warning them not to buy off the bots and list their names, whenever my items sell I send tells thanking people for not buying from the bots. People keep asking me who the bots are and why SE haven't banned them yet and it seems it's just lack of effort on their part. They must have a log of how frequently retainers check their prices and it wouldn't be hard to see trends of price updates every 10 or so minutes 24/7.

You're right, the bots shouldn't be there. Players shouldn't want to cheat in a game.

But some do. There are people in the world who don't care about fair play. They're only interested in getting what they want by any means possible.

Game developers will always be in a neverending battle against bots they can't win because there will always be some way to counter something that's been programmed with something else that's also been programmed. Ban one bot and another one will show up the next day to take its place. That's why game developers do bot bans in waves spread out months apart. Once they know which account is botting, they can focus on that account to study the programmed behavior. Then they try to find ways to counter it that won't have an even greater impact on the game experience of those playing the game as intended. If they blindly ban the account, they've got nothing to watch to learn how to counter it. All you get is a never ending stream of new bots still existing in the game.

Until the world is rid of those who want to cheat, bots will continue to exist. You can sit there and stamp your feet about how they shouldn't exist but it doesn't change that they do.

Definitely encourage others to stop buying items from the MB that are listed by obvious bots. But you should think twice about naming specific sellers as bots because that can get you banned for harassment. Their wrong doesn't make your wrong a right.