Karl Gro-Marx finally came down from the stronghold I see.

But seriously, I pay enough social security bs in real life, I don't need it in my games too.

This isn't really anything new from other MMO's.
The lack of resources because of bots is annoying and something which is needs to be addressed (though ZOS are always working forwards on this).

In regards to nerfed drops and the rest that's common in a lot of games, the first month/s of SWTOR every was making millions of credits from slicing until it was nerfed for example. Being the first to play an MMO will always give you some level of advantage because you'll get to use the game before balancing waves come to pass.

On the flip side of the arguement though think about all the things new players don't have to deal with? Boss campers, bank slots going missing, more than two downtimes a week, bugged quests, lack of guides or knowledgeable players to help.

I recently started a new character and I have to say that in a whole map I found two iron ores only. If you ask me how many bots i found , I'll tell you more than 7. Isn't this hilarious? They just roam around the map from harvest node to another node with their super fast speed, fairy wings and x-men powers moving through terrain. Can't compete against them can I ?

@ OP - In response to to the general sentiment of your post: That's just the way it goes in a MMO.

The ppl who have played longer, will have lived through more stuff ingame than newer players. And many times, the older players will have benefited from SOME mechanic that gets changed before an influx of new ppl. You want to to be in the first group to the top of the mountain, get in on the ground floor. Sucks to be FNG sometimes, but that's just the way it goes.

If a player can't deal with that reality, maybe this or any other MMO just isn't for them.

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@ the guys putting the whole of the RMT situation on ZOSs shoulders, you are just being reductive and/or disingenuous.

Bugs, quest glitches, instancing problems: those are on ZOS for sure and they should be working hard to fix them. Notice i say should. I say that because they currently can't, imo, spend as much attention there because they are trying to appease what they assume is the majority of the playerbase's main concern-RMT.

I've said it elsewhere that RMT is horrible and should be contained as much as possible. BUT the core game's stability should have been the first and foremost priority from Launch. And again my opinion, but it really doesn't seem to have been. Collision issues, progress halting glitches, class ability issues, etc etc: issues that should be THE things ZOS should be trying to rectify first, but they can't because they are too busy trying to contain a player escalated problem.

That's right, a player escalated problem. Because that is what RMT really is. There is always going to be a market for it because there is always gonna be some nimrod buying from these guys. Forgot about the buyers didn't ya?

For all of its issues, Final Fantasy XI had a community that was devoted to stopping RMT as much as possible. And both players and the devs acknowledged that it was a two-sided issue. The sellers AND the buyers. Can't have one without the other. And with that mindset(and over years worth of time i must add), RMT was effectively contained.

Sorry i went on in this part on my post

TLDR: RMT is NOT just ZOSs issue to deal with. As a playerbase we need to come to the realization as a group that gold buyers are just as culpable as gold sellers and get off ZOS's back for a beat and let them stabilize the game before we ALL start working on the RMT issue.

Feel free to flame, deride, or <insert verb of choice> me, but i really think that view needs to be put out there in the midst of all the pitfork and flaming torch waving.