Is it OK to use bots in FFXIV?

[Awha]

I think the only reasons a lot of people don't bot are:

1. They don't want to have to pay for a botting program.

2. They're not willing to accept that extremely tiny risk of them getting banned.

3. They don't want to damage their reputation.

In the long run though, the amount of bots has just continued to snowball as time goes on.

Sadly someone in our FC posted a rudimentary bot script they found for free because someone was complaining about the length of time required with crafting. Cost is becoming less of an issue. Caused some issues within our FC since we found out they have been doing this for fairly long time.

Reputation is also kind of an odd one since as our FC mate said not like interact with strangers most of the time nor care what people think. Not like it sill hurt his sales, since people will just buy the cheapest itme possible and not care why it is cheap.

SE neess to accept outside evidence, or expand the STF or train GMs to deal with bots.