Quote Originally Posted by Kes13a View Post
I am actually only offended by people who blatantly cheat and are allowed to get away with it.
Thanks Kes13a. I don’t enjoy playing an MMO with blatant cheating either. At the very least, they could make an effort to address the most egregious cases, like the bots that have been running from 84 days to 951 days (2.5 years)

I hate to say it, but I’m going to let me subscription lapse (tomorrow) until this gets sorted. I had planned to do it last month, but my friends in my old FC needed money to buy a larger FC house for the upcoming housing capacity increase. I hope to still help the community coordinate its response, but I won’t be able to check on specific bots on Crystal.

I think there is a problem that too few in the community realize there’s a market botting problem. On Zalera, most items from lvl 50-80 are being sold at 20-50% of the prices on Jenova because of bots. I think the legit crafters may be able to keep this up for some time. At some point, they may realize the futility of posting on the marketboard and give up, pushing all prices up to unaffordable prices. I hope this happens in the next 6 months.

I’m also getting a bit tired of explaining that this is a big problem. We know it’s a problem because we enjoy the game by crafting, gathering and playing the marketboard, but we’re in a minority. If bots infiltrated other game systems to the same extent, like the Duty Finder, there would be a large enough outcry to have SE do something about it. The marketboard is just as crucial a game system, but people won’t understand the problem until it becomes completely unusable.