Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
It's ok to be in denial when you've never played more than 1 MMO in your life. We all know RMT didn't hit big in XIV till around the end of it's life span when it was a smart idea to start hoarding gil for the relaunch.

We also know botting doesn't exist in any MMO ever. You never hear about hacks or bots existing in MMOs. It's practically unheard of.
Yeah, I haven't played more than 1 MMO in my life.

Fyi, bots aren't made using addon API, they're made as standalone programs that mimic button presses and as packet sniffers, which is what makes them almost impossible to detect programmatically, and require a human eye.

And it's not the "standardization" of an MMO that enables RMT, it's how much demand there is for RMT goods, which is a direct result of having rare, powerful and needed items be tradable between players and be easily monopolized. FFXI struggled with this for years before more Rare/Ex items were introduced as replacements or alternatives for things like Peacock Charm.