Quote Originally Posted by Stormpeaks View Post
Having the WoW Token or having hundreds of flying lalas under Limsa that are obviously gil sellers and farmers is.. literally the same thing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...as_underneath/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ode_decide_to/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...yte_and_found/

I could go on and on and even take pictures myself of it, in one case it goes through Blizzard, in another case it just goes through random sellers, what's the difference ?
Bots exist, and are banned in time. It's nowhere near as bad as WoW's botting issue, due to sharding, that will have tons of them farming the same infinite respawning zones in Legion/BFA/Legion as running around Boomkin parties. Blizzard knows they exist (and their most farmed areas in the Overworld and Dungeons), but doesn't make a real effort against them as Gold sellers are the main ones buying WoW tokens (300k currently) off the auction house.

Blizzard has even announced that they are going to allow trading between servers within the same Realm which only serves to benefit Goldsellers and market manipulators. Many servers are about to have their economies destroyed by this change coming in the next patch.

Blizzard also allows the sale of carries and power leveling in their Trade chat at Gold levels that can only be achieved via Gold Buying or WoW Tokens.