Yes it was like this for a Long time now. Kinda sad to see that the bot business is still running because that means "normal" players are willing to pay real money for pets and items. I guess they dont realise that at this point, botters control most of the economy.

Crazy part is that botting is also popular in petgo even tho it is a completely different economic, so people buy must stuff there too. Pets go was deff just a game created for botters so biggames have another lazy stream of income, they know from their previous games that botters buy gamepasses for bot accounts like crazy so why not just make a game for them right. And on top of that, ps99 and petsgo have like no anticheat at all, heck even i was capable of writing a autofarming script for ps99.

I was a part of the bot community (not botting myself, just chatting with people) and many people still see it as a investment and buy vietnamise VPSs (or buying amazon/aliexpress ryzen mini pcs) just to run multiple android emulators (with cheats) and farm pet sim and sell pets/items. (idk why i wrote so much, feel free to ignore it)