Jojoya
It's like a record sounding the same over and over.....by saying that the market is still out there and there are other things to sell ( Quote:” I switch to the items they aren't focused on. I still make gil crafting and selling on the MB.”) you imply that the bot issue is not so bad cause players can still sell their items – so yes it is a statement that the marketboard bot situation is not so bad!

Again: You seemingly (?) are on a server that doesn't have a severe marketboard bot issue. Can you just please now acknowledge and respect that it isn't reality for so many other players? It DOES NOT apply to many other servers or even datacenters???

Good that you are obviosuly having fun but fun has been ruined for so many other players because they take or took a special interest in trading or the crafting market.
Maybe you're satiesfied with earning next to nothing and maybe it's ok for you to search for hours every day to find a tiny nieche where you can craft a few items and sell but I know many crafters who said they will not put up the effort anymore for measley 10-20k profit - myself included - IF I even can sell. ANY time I find a nieche it's taken over by bots before it even get started. You think other crafters have different experiences?! Maybe they are just not loud about it but I can assure you it involves a lot of players - not just on my server but on most of the datacenter.
Fyi I can tell you that it's not just the mid market 50-80 in battle/crafting/gathering gear, tools, weapons, it's the whole crafting/gathering market and housing items, glamor (any lvl) that are covered by bots. I feel like I'm repeating myself here. This was already stated at the beginning of this thread....

Another passage is where you compare FFXIV to other games having similar issues. That's downsizing the seriousness of the problem in FFXIV...because Quote: ”show me a MMO that doesn't have bots” So? How does that help FFXIV? So I should just fold my hands and say too bad..there are so many bots here...just like in other games..I will just let them cheat and sell items instead of honest players and accept they took over the marketboard? Just because something is happening in other games it doesn't mean that it isn't serious enough here to require MORE actions from SE than a few measley RMT reports every week.

Why should I find another part of the game that interests me if this was what I loved to do ingame? As a paying customer I should have access to and be able to enjoy and have fun in ALL of FFXIV and not just what isn't bot infested!

I actually used to love this game but I just stopped playing while still paying my sub (wonder for how long) because I can't keep looking at ingame how SE is neglecting the marketboard botting.
We as paying customers should not accept that SE isn't taking appropiate and adequate actions.