Is it OK to use bots in FFXIV?

[SecretIsland]

Lots of people undercut and don't need a bot to do it. I check my Retainers fairly regularly every day and adjust the prices to undercut when possible. No bot needed.

Yep. This. Some people are just hardcore and no-life the market board. Doesn't always have to be a bot.

If you see them teleporting then yes, it is a bot. Otherwise, no.

[Xoto]

Yep. This. Some people are just hardcore and no-life the market board. Doesn't always have to be a bot.

If you see them teleporting then yes, it is a bot. Otherwise, no.

Lmao this guy wants to pretend bots aren't running the marketbaords... Man when did you join? Feb 2021... nice welcome to a bots heaven in ffxiv

[Xoto]

Well today... on february 22nd. I was farming levinstrike aerhersand. 6 characters were gathering from these nodes, 4 of those accounts were bots. (No they will never get banned...Yes they have all been reported.... No SE doesn't actually uphold the ToS.... No the Report Cheating button doesn't actually do anything) So to answer the question of this thread. Yes.

[KageTokage]

Yep. This. Some people are just hardcore and no-life the market board. Doesn't always have to be a bot.

If you see them teleporting then yes, it is a bot. Otherwise, no.

The undercut bots typically have alts camped out by retainers 24/7 and will undercut within less then a minute of something being listed at a lower price them then them.

This is especially easy to identify if the alts in question are level 21, which is the absolute minimum you need to be in order to have access to a retainer.

And no, they don't teleport. The only bots that teleport are the ARR gil farmers who just want to make a quick penny from speeding through the MSQ as quickly as possible and basically are committing account suicide because they're well-aware of how quickly they'll get banned.

[ZedxKayn]

The ToS will tell you it's not OK, the punishment (or lack thereof) botters receive will tell you it's OK.