Has Square Enix given up on countering RMT and botting?

[Jijifli]

Just standing around by the ephemeral nodes will readily out who is/isn't botting strictly due to their awkward movement patterns; particularly how they mount up and take flight before moving to the next node.

You also can often guess at who is/isn't a bot by simply glancing at the level-capped gatherers/crafters in player search and taking note of the ones that have only one DoW/M job at 90 with none of the others touched at all.

Or the fact their flights are always pixel perfect. Not in getting there, but the path it ends up taking. It's terrifyingly consistent, which is hilarious, because people aren't going to be that pixel perfect when doing something like gathering.

Don't forget how a huge chunk of them are incapable of handling, *Checks notes* A single trade window and completely freeze. And before someone says it, no one single in general trade isn't a ToS violation. However, it's certainly strange when one will gather for hours on end, suddenly get a window, and just freeze for however long you choose to keep the window open. Of course the second you do drop it, they're right back to work, which makes it clear what code it's trying to pull.