Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[Wrestlefire769]

It's simple. All they have to do is ban the botting circles. We have already exposed all those circles for them. Once they are gone it will take "some time" for them to get back up and running. Then they get banned again. If even WE can totally expose them, SE would certainly be able to confirm it and take action against them.

-THEY JUST DONT CARE- it's obvious.

Just undercut them out of business. I have done this and totally shut them down on the higher lvl items and glamour. The only reason I stopped is because I don't have the energy to keep crafting because I value my personal time. Bots can keep going forever since it's all automated and costs them zero personal time. So anyway, if you have the stomach for it, just undercut them and they will stop posting items. But this needs to be done on every server otherwise they will still make gil. It's probably the same band of *bleep* running all the circles anyways.

Then it's worse than that. SE then is part of the problem -- and then it's clear that there are people within SE, and that includes people in charge of the community, who accept and SUPPORT RMT and similar behavior.

(Hint: North America.)

At that point, it isn't that they don't care -- it is actually against some sections of the community for them to care.

[Angelhearth]

Then it's worse than that. SE then is part of the problem -- and then it's clear that there are people within SE, and that includes people in charge of the community, who accept and SUPPORT RMT and similar behavior.

(Hint: North America.)

At that point, it isn't that they don't care -- it is actually against some sections of the community for them to care.

I wonder if they actually think the prices were too high, and then decided that the bots could fix that problem for them. If you look at the changes done to the retainer drops in patch 5.4 you'll see that it was mostly changed into craftable items being added to the retainer drops. Have a look at some of the stuff that is sold cheap on the MB and check the crafters name (bottom left). In most cases there won't be any name there, meaning the item was a drop. Then check what's for sale and check the items as you get higher in price. You'll have to go a long, long, way up there before you find an item that was actually crafted by a player (or bot). The thing is SE, no one will craft Alexander statues and the likes for 250 gil, no one!