Has Square Enix given up on countering RMT and botting?

[Saraide]

I'm glad I've been given an opportunity to provide a window into the predatory nature of RMT.

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Edit: 99% likely that they get their gil from the bots who sell crystals and farm maps/eureka fates etc.

Thank you for your insight. I absolutely agree that SE should do something about it. But I am far from confident that they will for the reasons that it's not harming enough people for SE to care and that it's not in people's faces enough (like run sellers were) to be bad publicity. For as long as there is an ingame economy there will be RMT, getting completely rid of it is a dream at best. But making it more difficult would improve the prices for honest sellers atleast a bit.

One of those things is something to be done about: publicity. If it gets brought up regularly in interviews and Q&A sessions surely SE has to do something eventually, right?

I'm sorry if I came across saying that RMT/gatherer bots harm no one, that was not my intention. My point was that it's not harming enough people for SE to care.