Has Square Enix given up on countering RMT and botting?

[Jijifli]

Yeah, they're shockingly easy to spot.

I just recorded 2 earlier today (good old shadowplay) and decided to pile that along with how it affects the market board because some people still refuse to believe that this is doing anything (market board at the end of the vid):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZjlvL3cId4

One thing worth mentioning, the second bot was wearing fully melded gear to boost spiritbonding and farm materia.

I love just skipping around the video, click 3:38, and see the bot mount, take a step to centralize itself again, then completely stop, jump in place, and THEN turn to its intended route on a dime. Ya, I'm sure normal people would be moving exactly like that every time.

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.

I just want to quote myself to add: I forgot GC too. It's very rare for these gathering bots in particular to have any rank ups in their grand company at all. And while yes I'm sure someone will come over going "Actually since it's not a requirement there's plenty of player who don't" and while technically true, I would like to think someone who's committed time to the game (you know, like being logged in 24/7?) would have at least touched their grand company. Specially when it does have items to help level said gathering and in general is actually content. So why does every 'player' I see that moves like in that video also conveniently avoid that section of stuff entirely, on top of only leveling 1 thing, on top of poor trade reaction? And yet must have exactly pixel perfectly taken paths, not straight, but always perfectly consistent? That takes a ton of practice and attention, and I'd think someone that committed to pathing wouldn't be that common either.