Inflation And AH Bot Price Fixing....

Don't you know the Godfather is untouchable...he is protected by greasy Italians !

More likely he isn't botting and is doing it by hand, if he logs in at random times.

Not that it really matters, but its being done on Lakshmi as well on a bunch HQ Cursed gear.

Either you're trolling, attempting to strawman the argument, or just blatantly missing the point. I'm leaning toward a mixture of troll/missing the point, given your general nature on Asura.

But hey, we are all glad that you can farm lots of money in a thread aimed at dealing with manipulating the market, illegal third party applications, and other TOS violations that are having a direct, negative effect on players. Quite the contribution.

I always wondered what ole Gadfather was up to in that corner of the Bastok Mines AH. I've never seen his name attached to any transactions, but I'm not a crafter either. Who are his legion of mules and what kind of stuff is he selling these days?

In what way does this not really matter?

Because it should absolutely matter, even if you are buying gil to acquire these items, it is costing you more than it should. If you are legitimately farming gil, it is costing you more time to afford these items.

This is costing players a lot, all for what, so some d-bag living in his mom's basement who is too lazy to get a real job can make money off of your recreational time?

Seriously this ***matters.

I am truly flabbergasted that anyone would defend this crap, floored that you all think things are fine the way they are.

Not directing at the person quoted, but logic tells me one thing, anyone thinking that this is acceptable or defending this are people who are abusing the system and enjoying profits off of other people's time. The attacks are especially telling, they cant come up with a legitimate argument, so they get mad when someone reminds them of just how crappy they are as players that they have to cheat to make up for it.

There is no way that normal players should be accepting this. No benefit to it for them at all, only ever increasing costs toward their goals.

Even the excuse of oh it keeps the AH full. Not really, they are reselling ***that was already occupying the AH regardless.

You shouldn't have to slave away at a menial tasks in this game just to pay off RMT/botting *** to access content in this game.

Yea this ***is very important.

In fact I'm getting this thread notarized and sent to the legal department of Square Enix.

Long and short is you're powerless. Ain't ***you can realistically do about it, so, just live with it.

The only thing you can do is, not participate. Which was what I said on page 1. Can't stop people from being stupid so just go with it, or stop being part of it. It's easy.

If you were really principled you would quit FFXI. Because the cheating isn't going anywhere. And if you quit FFXI maybe you can stop making these stupid *** threads.

Maybe probably not.

Maybe that is what I am trying to do at the very least, but not in the way you are implying.

Maybe I am trying to convince people to quit paying known RMT to merc for them, maybe I am trying to convince people to quit supplying the AH bots with raw materials, or maybe I am kindly telling RMT/Botters that they are pieces of ***too, who knows. But at least people are being forced to face it, instead of just letting it slide like sheeple.

If you noticed, I said on post 1: "Get a grip people"

I mean you've got to be relatively new, because this isn't a new problem. It's just growing into a bigger problem, here, because square is incompetent.

People are just exhausted trying to fight a 40 year old unwinnable battle.

So.... the mafias been around for generations, I suppose since they haven't stopped, we should just ignore their future plans.

Stop trying, your logic is a failure, especially with that one.

Your statements are pretty bold coming from someone in your shoes with this situation.

You're like a person who continues to rob the same store over and over again, then turning around and telling the store owners to ignore it, because the police haven't thrown you in jail yet.

It's more like I'm bribing the cops, and they let me keep doing whatever the *** I want, to be honest.

As the shop owner, there isn't anything you can do about it. You can close your shop (quit).

True, I was thinking my analogy wasn't quite on point.

I really feel like you don't understand what's actually being price fixed and just want to blame your own difficulty advancing on an external factor. Price fixing is annoying high end crafters and not much else, what have you bought(or wanted to buy) that is being price fixed?

HQs are at an all time low, NQs are basically give-away status, and RMEA mats are cheaper than they've ever been despite requiring pretty close to the same man-hours to obtain outside of ambuscade.

If you're having trouble with any goal, it's most likely not because of RMT, it's because you're bad or have little free time. Sparks RMT cause a bit of inflation, but salvage/vw/ambuscade/dynamis/whatever RMT(and botters) drive down the price of what they farm by far more.

And no, Kraken Club isn't being price fixed. It's expensive because it's rare. Someone seeing there are 0 krakens up on a deadass server and it's been going for 400-500m on the lively servers, then choosing to list it for 400-500m, is capitalism.

Server transfers exist, you'd be a complete idiot to sell it for 70m just because your servers history shows 70m. We can all see FFXIAH.

That aside, one of ffxi's most popular streamers, Ejiin, has been showcasing the use of kraken rng against high end content and there's a strong consensus that it's one of if not the highest output jobs when it can get sufficient buffs. It was useless in 2014 because we needed ilevel accuracy to hit anything. Not so much now that we have honor march and a wide variety of ilevel accuracy gear.

It's not about what I'm after sport. It's the situation as a whole, it affects everyone. I've also said numerous times that k-club was an example of inflation not price fixing. Learn to read, or better yet learn to mentally retain statements that you are attempting to argue against.

I'm perfectly happy with my level of progress, I am severely behind most current players because I haven't been playing in the last 5 years until a couple of months ago.

Nice attempt at deflecting the issue onto my personal progress. Failure, but nice attempt.

Okay, let's try again.

How is everyone effected by this? Please cite some items to support your argument, since you're clearly very worked up about it.

Nah, I've been told I should be spending my time farming gil instead of arguing against known botters who will defend their source of income no matter how pathetic their excuses are at justifying their activities.

Someone in this very thread already gave an example of how the ***personally affected them. I am not baited that easily.

So, in other words, you can't come up with even one good example of an item that's being unfairly priced due to this gigantic problem you've gained 20 pts of blood pressure over?

Almost everything is cheaper because of RMT/bots, not more expensive. Sorry.

People are ignoring your thought but i do care for you.

Or your fake boobs

I guess I'll just have to take the word of a biased person over it. I am not going to waste my time defining every single item in the game that is being abused. Cute as it sounds for you though, BPs are doing fine, but I thank you for the concern over my health.

I'm not asking for every single item, just one.