Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[ForteNightshade]

The willingness of the bots to tank the prices into the sub 50K range if necessary made me decide it was probably more productive to just levespam at 20Kish gil per pop.

The thing that annoys me most about this whole situation is that it's not as though it couldn't be controlled if they could actually recognize and ban the bots, as it takes much longer for an omnicrafter bot to get itself established then the other types.

If they simply did a mass sweep without any prior warning, that alone would scare off a good number of players. Actual player boys have become such a problem lately simply because they know SE won't do a damn thing.

Yep and for example I tanked prices and my items sold then the bots somehow magically just raised their prices back up. Or theirs sold also on a couple but I know they'll just make more cause they have multiple bots going at once for materials and crafting.

To quote someone I once did ucob with whose friend botted. "I could crash the pot market to 100 gil if I really wanted to. It's still profit for me."

Until SE actually starts doing something, there isn't anything people can do. Bots have essentially infinite resources.

[Kes13a]

I still say, if they want to combat the bots... punish the buyers. players create the bot issue by buying gil and services, so... penalize the people causing the problem and the bot issue starts to dry up with less customers. follow the gil SE.... follow the gil.