Ongoing Botting Issues – Reports Ignored for Months

[Yerba]

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[Catmato]

Months? My dude, we have 242 pages https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/58360-The-STF-does-nothing-and-I-m-going-to-post-every-report-I-file-as-proof./page242

[Yerba]

I'm a returning player, I've only been back 3 months.

[Yerba]

Wow, thank you for keeping a log of this.

[Alhanelem]

We're pretty much just accepted it at this point. Blame SE for making the Exemplar grind so insane that few are willing to do it while paying attention the entire time (It takes at least as long or longer to ML50 one job as it does to level all jobs to 99 the first time).

And as for the RMT, they honestly put only a minimal effort in because the RMT are actually paying subs (the free trial is uesless to them) so technically, banning them hurts them financially more than tolerating them unless too many actual people quit over it. Or at least, that's what the philosophy seems to be

It even happens in FFXIV as well, it just doesn't have the same kind of impact on the game there. My issue with it in that game is that RMT actually do things legitimate players cannot do that would make it trivially easy to ban them without any collateral damage: RMT bots actually put themselves under the floor in the major cities, so you couldn't see them or easily target them to report them.... until they introduced the chat bubbles feature- Now you can see the RMT chats straight up giving away that they are under the floor in an unreachable location. SE could simply auto ban anyone in that area because no actual player can get there.... but they still don't do it.

SE has most likely determined that these bots are just a minor nuisance and not enough to push most people toward quitting.