Botting Is Out Of Control and Ignored

It's not uncommon for MMOs to leave bots in the game because the developers [inadvertently] receive increased profits from it. Whether it be trade bots, site advertising bots, QoL bots, deals with the third party sites.

It also takes the pressure off of GGG to design a realistically functioning trade system.
That has been a hill they're willing to die of for years. Inconvenience is a way of padding out a game.

tbh.. we need more trade bots xD

It sounds ridiculous, but thy actually invite AND trade with you.
Sometimes i need like 10 Minutes to buy 1x any oil...

Yeah GGG needs a anti botting software to loads prior to the exe.

Plus ridding those chat site spammers, forever. All of them, IP Block them.
Then more solutions to those who use vpn.

Bots are a solution to a problem and getting rid of them makes the game worse. First solve the massive trade problems they're supporting then you can deal with them. Until then more bots I say.

But can you be truly sure? Have some romance in your heart -

Anna the bot
Versions: #1#2
I know a bot
She's called Anna. She's called Anna,
and she can ban, ban you so hard
She rears her head in our channel
I want to tell you I know a bot

I know a bot
She's called Anna. She's called Anna,
and she can ban, ban you so hard
She rears her head in our channel
I want to tell you I know a bot
That always watches everyone here
and makes sure we are free of trouble
There is no take over that can succeed
remember that it's me that knows a bot

A bot that no-one, no-one else can beat
And she can kick without getting
She gets rid of all that spam
Yes, no-one can beat our bot

(Music)

Ready for take off

Are you ready

I know a bot
She's called Anna. She's called Anna,
and she can ban, ban you so hard
She rears her head in our channel
I want to tell you I know a bot

Then the day came that I didn't think existed
It really upset the channel
I never thought I was so wrong
But when Anna wrote and said

I am no bot
I am a very, very pretty girl
Which is unfortunately very alien to me
But there is nothing that need explanation
For to me she will always be a bot

She's called Anna. She's called Anna,
and she can ban, ban you so hard
She rears her head in our channel
I want to tell you I know a bot
That always watches everyone here
and makes sure we are free of trouble
There is no take over that can succeed
remember that it's me that knows a bot

A bot that no-one, no-one else can beat
And she can kick without getting
She gets rid of all that spam
Yes, no-one can beat our bot
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/boten-anna-anna-bot.html

^^

Only bots can play games efficiently.

Current system of completely unregulated trade makes it ripe for flipper bots to essentially make free currency based purely on the exchange rate. The real solution would be to implement an auction house with a trade tax that would make such manipulations a lot harder (you could still do it, but it would be way less profitable) and restrict personal trade.

And also ignore the "auction house will ruin the game" doomsayers. I don't know a SINGLE multiplayer game worth anything that got "ruined' by auction house. 99% of people who go heavy against auction house being ever in the game are those that profit from the current situation, by having a flipper bot in a second window making them currency out of thin air, or abusing the current inconvenient trade system, which, with more regulation, would benefit the "casual" player and not them. For some of them, real money is also at stake (a lot of RMT is done around PoE). Easier gearing and trading (no extra friction in terms of having to whisper, go to hideout etc.) will cut into their pockets, so of course they are going to be against it.

Every single "argument" against AH has no weight. Bots will control the market? They do already. MArket will be fixed! It is already, most hot meta build defining\chase uniques anyway, and are controlled with same old bots. I remember "testing it" by posting stuff like Kaoms into public stash for 1c then putting it back into inventory, and getting PMs before I could even place it back. Common items will be worthless? They are worthless already, and many uncommon items are as well. I recall droping a unique for a first time after playing the game, at that time, for a about 800 hours (it wasnt a location restricted unique, could drop in many places). It's value was 3c. Valuable bases, powerful uniques, other items gated behind expensive content (high tier maps or high tier bosses), as well as expensive crafts will be valuable anyway, the rest is worthless even now.

Play SSF, problem solved :)