Is Botting Allowed?

[Jojoya]

Bots have not just wrecked "massive profits", they've completely taken over the markets to the point where there is no profit at all on anything you can craft.

Except they haven't completely taken over the markets. There are still thousands of items to craft, most of which the bots aren't touching and which crafters can still profit from.

I've got a low level character I barely touch that's making over half a million gil a week right now selling off 10 different HQ items needed for level CUL 30-50 quests. If I were to spend more time on that character and sell all 70+ items for all the different class quests in that level range, I'd be making several million a week. People are lazy. They're more than happy to pay someone else to make the HQ item so they don't have to gather mats and fumble through a HQ rotation.

Players aren't just looking for crafted gear at end game. They're looking for gear for their alt jobs they're leveling but no longer have MSQ to use as a gear source. Not everyone levels through PotD (making gear irrelevant) or likes to level by farming dungeons.

And then there are the players on preferred worlds that are leveling up much faster than they're advancing through the MSQ. If you're level 54 but are only working on the level 45, where are you going to get gear your level? You haven't unlocked tomestones or the HW dungeons yet. There are no Battlecraft Suppliers with level 50+ gear in ARR zones. What's left? The marketboard for the crafted gear. A brief check of several level 50-54 weapons shows that they've been selling for 75-150k each, and some of them aren't currently listed for sale. A prime profit opportunity for the crafter willing to make them.

There absolutely are profit opportunities out there for crafters. The problem is everyone is so hung up on thinking that only end game items are worth making that they're ignoring all the other opportunities available to them. If they would stop and look, maybe they would start finding those profits again.

Do you just love arguing with me. Not even going to bother with you, I wasted my time enough in the past. Even when we agree you troll me just for the sake of disagreeing.

Disagreeing with you and presenting the reasons why I disagree is not trolling.

You're the one who has stated on repeated occasions that gil does not matter to you. Now you're saying the reason why you craft and gather is to make gil.

Well, which is it? Be consistent. Better yet, be honest with everyone including yourself. The gil clearly does matter to you or you wouldn't be so upset about market prices.