Quote Originally Posted by Saraide View Post
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.
Oh I definitely agree with that.

The fact is, the devs care about the state of the game, and the corporate side of SE only cares about the money.

If their revenue goes up because of botting, they'll do everything they can to ignore what's going on. The actual FF team (CBU3) likely don't want this situation but it wouldn't surprise me if they couldn't present a strong enough argument with SE to ban SE accounts due to botting.

There's only one of two ways SE would ever act on this and it would either be because the game garners a reputation as a bot haven (a negative reputation), or much less likely, player count drops significantly enough to the point where even botters wouldn't want to play lol.

But that's why it's just better to be vocal about the situation, yeah people don't want or don't like to hear it, but if isn't being talked about frequently, we aren't putting enough pressure on the devs to try harder.

At the end of the day, we're all paying for a subscription which comes with a service agreement. We all pay and abide by the rules given to us by the service providers. But in most cases, if people pay for a service and watch people freely break rules of that service, it makes you question the integrity of the service you're paying for.