Bot's on Market Board...? Really?

[ElazulHP]

A few test pieces isn't going to give you much information when there are thousands of different items to be crafted.

Bots are a problem in a few narrow crafting markets, primarily end game gear. There are plenty of other items to craft and sell for profit that bots aren't touching.

Few being 1 of my retainers full. There are bots in all the food, tinctures, crafting, gathering, and DoW/DoM gears & weapons/tools markets. I recognize the names as I've been crafting for years and used to live next door to one and saw the endless parade of naked bot alts rotating and updating prices at the bell right outside our homes. Some of those bots have been around since HW without being banned. Saying that it's "in a few narrow crafting markets" is also ignoring the fact that those are the markets that are most frequently purchased right after a patch releases and where it's most profitable at the right time. Why should I ignore them in favor of markets that sell less over longer periods. It's not worth my time and that is where the problem is. Crafting just isn't worth the time invested anymore unless you're crafting for the sake of crafting. Especially, when faced with bots that gather and craft 24/7 without logging off and have a bot updating prices literally every 30 minutes until whatever the set minimum level is. They'll bottom out prices until the margins are so razor-thin it's not worth it.

I'm legit been thinking the last few months of unsubscribing in protest tbh. Crafting has been one of my favorite activities for years in this game and with it ruined half the game isn't fun anymore.