Has Square Enix given up on countering RMT and botting?

[KageTokage]

The bottom line is that they're cheating and making it more difficult for actual players to make gil off the marketboard by tanking prices to a point of scarcely being worth the effort and exasperating the issue with automated undercuts that require one to be extremely if not excessively diligent in monitoring your prices to make sure anything actually sells.

Not to mention many of them are also involved with RMT and using the marketboard as a "sustainable" method of farming gil as in all likelyhood a lot of the gil they sell ends up coming right back to them from the people buying their crafts, plus they almost never get banned unlike the hacking ARR gil farmers.

[KageTokage]

I'm going to assume the primary way those RMTers traffic gil is just by having the buyer post an overpriced item on the market, then the seller buys the item.

I've heard stories about people getting pulled aside by GMs because they saw they were repeatedly being given millions of gil via trading or mails which is probably going look more suspicious then the former.

If they actually started cracking down on the farm bots, it would be extremely easy to trace them back to the sellers and shut down their operations, though. You can already draw lines sometimes just from looking at who crafted a bot's gear...though it often ends up being a long chain of several bots making gear for one another that finally stops at an actual player.