Is it OK to use bots in FFXIV?

[Canadane]

Well, thanks for your honest thoughts. Had some similar suspicions when was making this thread...
Yet, it's still better to hear this, than some delusional conclusions of people claiming that there are no crafting/gathering/market bots. Just very dedicated players who can be active for 750+ hours in a row repeating 1 singe action every minute.

There are absolutely people who do this. Maybe not 750 hours but I can sit and craft all day long sometimes I feel like a bot lol
But there is absolutely botting software out there, to deny it it would be crazy. Apparently the good stuff is paid for so someone’s making money off it. But hey, you just make back that money with some RMT of your own after taking advantage of the software right?
The things I’m told by some unscrupulous players is pretty disgusting at best, and I honestly do wish SE would do something.

[ZeroRaziel]

There are absolutely people who do this. Maybe not 750 hours but I can sit and craft all day long sometimes I feel like a bot lol
But there is absolutely botting software out there, to deny it it would be crazy. Apparently the good stuff is paid for so someone’s making money off it. But hey, you just make back that money with some RMT of your own after taking advantage of the software right?
The things I’m told by some unscrupulous players is pretty disgusting at best, and I honestly do wish SE would do something.

Heh, I think we all can be like that sometimes... But one, two or even three days isn't 50. Plus real people usually care to answer at least one out of twenty tells from different people (or at least put them on black-list o_o).
And I don't think that you use an army of those 22 lvl chars to scan if someone undercut you precisely every 5 minutes =P

You can't really take advantage of the undercut bots because they're able to set a price floor that they will not go under.

True, also tried that only to find out there was a certain limit they won't cross.
Though that player from Chaos server (reddit post from earlier) stumbled upon a bot-owner careless enough to ignore this threshold.
That's is how it turned out:
https://imgur.com/a/xkDLOE1