Final Fantasy XIV has a serious cheating problem.

Actually maybe if ACT cheaters manage to destroy the trust people have in FFLogs rankings people who use parsers will actually start using them as a method of self improvement and to know the general damage they should be outputting instead of wiping every PF party they touch to greed one more GCD and boost their score on that site.

I don't know if this is a hot take but I can't say im heart broken someone figured out how to boost their numbers on FFlogs and is therefore erroding the value of the website some people in this game rely on to judge their entire self worth, and others worth in the game.

It's not healthy folks.

Having experience with using bots and hacks in other games really makes it apparent people don't understand how little the devs/teams of these types of games can do to stop them. There are no actual internal tools available to instantly track the exact moment someone might have clipped through a wall or floor, for example. Similarly, there are no internal tools available to determine exact position hacking (i.e. X/Y/Z placement of a player at any given time). This is purely evidenced by the fact judgment is not issued swifter. It could, potentially, be mostly automated if that were the case... but it's not.

Unless people want SE to always pull the trigger on bans for no actually provable reason (other than just on occasion), they have rules they have to follow. This does include the obvious bots, so every one of them has to go through protocols/rules to determine fault PER character/account. The people who utilize these tools know this. They know they have the time, purely because they know these companies don't want to upset players by freely banning large groups of people all the time for no reason. They also know they don't have those tools mentioned earlier.

I honestly don't know why it's not seen as applicable to hire a small team to actively monitor reports in real time. Like actually investigate/track a player marked in a ticket. I know it happens on occasion, but it doesn't seem to be a regular thing. Maybe if the problem actually gets bad, to the point we actually do see dozens/hundreds of them swamping towns and higher level zones, then that might happen. Until then, not that big of a deal when you consider it is and (almost) always has been business as usual.

The thing bugs me is that the GMs were permitted to action people for visibly having add-ons in their UI, which in practice, is scarcely more obvious then players doing things like moving around while stunned/CC'd or teleporting into walls so they can pop an elixir without interrupted.

Both are technically cheating, but the former was placed under the jurisdiction of the GMs which is why it was actioned almost immediately, whereas the latter offense gets handed off to the STF who have such a slow response time that they won't necessarily even be able to catch an offender in the act.

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Originally Posted by Skiros

Don't think that is true in FF14, at least not universally. I had a friend get insta banned on day 1 because of a dirty name (was Thundercock or something like that).

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So you are saying, that a registered argentine account got perma banned and account closer over a name? They dont even do that for usa accounts :p they make you rename, maybe a 24 to 7 day suspension.


There is a diff between bann and suspension. EULA agreements between countries in order to sell games there, for example the biggest one atm is what belgium and other countries and lootboxes?

there are some for you can never perma ban an account.


There are countries where they cant play pass 10pm , welll use too they got rid of that law i think, So internet cafe's were the norm, they pay a monthly sub for game access tied to the equiv of a SSN. They would hack in overwatch and other games, get suspended. and unsuspended in 15 min bc of the way EULA worked.


Countries and gameing rules are not equal =p

The youtube account has been closed. It was exposing some serious cheats and just how many people had bought legend titles.

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Originally Posted by Maxilor

Cheating? No officer, these are UI Enhancements that YoshiP said he was going to implement in the future.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...68/unknown.png

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Truly a masterpiece, did one of those Western game devs from Twitter who hates Elden Ring design this?
If at least 80% of my screen isn't covered up then it's literally unplayable.

I think we need our characters commenting on everything we do too and tell us the solutions and where to go in the MSQ and the raids.

'' I should use Gust Slash now ''

'' Mug increases the parties damage, the fiends defense is down ''

'' Oh no, this is gonna hurt. Better use Shade Shift ''

Cmon, get with the times.

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Originally Posted by Ath192

The youtube account has been closed. It was exposing some serious cheats and just how many people had bought legend titles.

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I don't rly take e-peen accomplishments seriously at all in games, there's so much cheating and carrying or cheese in games.
If someone tells me that they beat Elden Ring for example I have no idea if they meant that they legitimately actually learned all of the boss fights and did them or if they ran in with an op sword and shot a laser beam at them and they died before even reaching the player ( countless of op examples and cheese/ glitching ).

In my experience it's the same with Ultimates in FFXIV, I've lost count how many times I've ran into complete crap players running around with the weapons.
I've honestly felt like there has been a massive increase of people running around with them as of late dunno why rly.
But it's not rly special anymore imo.

It used to be the same in WoW too, you could run past someone in Ironforge and see their weapon and be impressed it was a really cool thing in Vanilla.
Nowadays it's hard to be impressed by anything and you know there is always a relatively high chance they didn't actually get it legit.

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Originally Posted by Ath192

The youtube account has been closed. It was exposing some serious cheats and just how many people had bought legend titles.

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Pretty much exactly how I would've expected them to react, and in all likelyhood it was probably spurred on mostly by the cheaters themselves not wanting to be exposed and reporting the account...nevermind that anyone who wants to expose people who've bought clears can just use FFLogs as an easy reference point.

And thus SE will just allow this nonsense to continue instead of actually taking the information to heart and doing something about it.

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The youtube account has been closed. It was exposing some serious cheats and just how many people had bought legend titles.

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I wonder if it's because bot creators/users sent death threats to the guy and doxxed his identity somehow instead of it being an SE intervention.

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Originally Posted by Skiros

I wonder if it's because bot creators/users sent death threats to the guy and doxxed his identity somehow instead of it being an SE intervention.

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Yeah this is totally sus NGL.

Could be SE because it was criticizing SE a little for banning much more benign mod users instead of focusing on deep cheating like this. So maybe they had the account closed, otherwise It could be the cheaters and players threatening him. Basically there would be a lot of people with a lot of motiviation to make him dissappear

so idk

All im saying is many parties had many motives to not let the truth surface.MAYBE this goes deeper than we think. MAYBE a young and naive journalist went up against the establishment and found out what happens when you mess with the status quo.

/suspensemusic

I assume SE's publicity firm didn't want a channel making it painfully obvious how easy it is cheat in XIV since it reflects badly on the state of the game and can deter people from wanting to play it, thus they gave Youtube the okay to purge it after it was mass-reported. It's fairly standard practice.

Something that might help is having one of the major content creators go into detail about insanely prevalent things like scripting and botting have become without going into the icky specifics of how they function and all the benefits you can reap, and rather just show how you can ID people who are using them. They've only been focusing on the cheaters in PvP when it covers a far broader scope then most are actually aware of.

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Originally Posted by Skiros

Hopefully this is educational for the people who thinks cheating is mild in FF14.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7639eZ-HDtk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8aFkIycX54

Please do not bother commenting anything about "oh but it's not that bad" or "did you not see all the Lodestone notices".

Go watch all this channel's videos.

I know how deep this problem goes better than you do, trust me.

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both vids gone

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Originally Posted by LianaThorne

Clarification: the MB anywhere thing only let's you check prices, not list things. You still have to return to a retainer. Pretty sure that plugin just regurgitates whatever is posted on Universalis which everyone has access to, console or PC.

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And isn't 100% accurate either.

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Originally Posted by Skiros

Sorry, didn't know it was a crime to share useful/good posts I see on Reddit.

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Dude, post what you want. Just seems some people are a tad jealous that you beat them to the punch. But in plain english..To hell with them. You do you.

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Originally Posted by Skiros

You guys are getting more and more adept at coming up with lunatic conspiracy theories.

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Hell these forum are filled with Crazy Karens, absurd Conspiracy theorists, and a ton of nosey @ss Kravitz's. At times it is best to leave the kids running out in the streets so you don't have to tend to them. In essence, taking a break from the forums is never ever a bad thing. It will keep you sane.