Is it OK to use bots in FFXIV?

[ZeroRaziel]

SE ban bots and RMTs in waves every few months.
Unfortunately this means for those few months the botters and RMTs have free reign and are only moderately disadvantaged for a short time when those ban waves occur.

The most affected part of the market however is the sale of crystals/shards/clusters, which would likely be prohibitively expensive if it wasn't for those botters to be frank, so it's a double-edged sword.
If SE could be more proactive on the issue, they would also need to address the balance of obtaining crystals and shards in great enough quantities as well.

Wow...
Thanks for your answer btw. But thats just... wow...
Really...? So if those bots were used for RMT that would mean they were able to "realize" those Gills for real money or "launder" them somehow like a thousand times before SE really does something?
And so if few months had passed woudn't that basicly mean that this bots completely surved it's RMT purpose, besides harming other players game experince?

And yeah, while I can partially agree on a notion regarding double-edged-ish-ness of this whole crystals/shards/clusters matter, there is a huge chance that if those crystals weren't so affordable, we woudn't have such heavily crystals demanding crafting recipes. (1 Fire Shard instead of 10 Fire Clusters + 10 Earth Clusters) So that we need so much of them right now is probably a counter-measure on SE side to balance an oversupply. Also it's extremely easy for SE to increase a bonus to crystals we gather right now even more with buffs like The Twelve's Bounty or The Giving Land.