Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[Prrringles]

I can confirm Moogle is run by bots. Basically all the farmable stuff is sold by bots (herbs, minerals, dusts, crystals). Craftables are mainly sold by 2 bot accounts (both listed in the spreadsheet). On Moogle there is also a bot account selling the farmable mounts non-stop (mainly dodo, eldthurs, night pegasus). I have seen no change in the past 6-12 months. All the usual suspects are still very much active.

I have no idea if SE even takes these reports serious. I would say that with all the data available to SE these bot accounts should be easy to identify. Makes you wonder if the bot accounts are just too profitable for SE (9x8 retainers per account) to remove. I can't think of anything else for not instantly removing them from play.

Edit: Just wanted to add that I'm a crafter since basically the launch of FFXIV. Been staring at the market board for years now so I have a decent view on what's going on. I've noticed that bot activity increased drastically since the release of Shadowbringers. Might be due to FFXIV going "mainstream" with all the marketing for Shadowbringers and influx of WoW players. The Moogle server was kind of fine before that. There were bot accounts for raw materials here and there but basically none for craftables. I also feel that servers were kept pretty clean before the launch of Shadowbringers. Reported a few "suspicious" account before and they were all removed within 2-3 weeks.