Frontlines bots

Is there anything being done about the very blatant botting that is happening in Frontlines right now?

Just taking a look at the Frontlines standings for Aether datacenter and there are players with thousands of matches per month.

How does one get over 1500 matches in one month??? This is humanly impossible unless a bot is doing it.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...=&match=&gcid=

^^ This is just Aether but happening on multiple datacenters.

I thought Square Enix takes botting and cheating very seriously?

At the height of me being unemployed and playing 24/7 Frontlines I wasn't even coming close to these guys.

Something does need to be done. The bots in frontlines are very obvious. They run around not attacking or doing anything, usually on /follow of random people, and will sometimes be found running into walls. SE please crack down on botting, it's making Frontline super meh.

It makes me really sad that they did all these changes to help activity, but most of the real players that do encounter these bots end up just stop pvping all together. What's left is just the people who reaaally want to pvp and those bots. and it makes for very dull, horrible games.

I would have rather had full access to all my pve abilities to blow these bots up, but now have to just rely on the 9 buttons we get and it makes it a very repetitive thing.

I would have preferred longer queues for a 8v8v8 with real players, than to have a huge chunk of 72 players being bots in an instant queue. :(

Bots and "I'm just here for the exp btw uwu I'm gonna guard base"

I used to be quite excited to queue for PvP, but with the rampant botting and people leeching XP, I've really come to dread it, and that's terrible. It was seriously my favorite thing to do in game. :/

Worst part is, these bots and exploiters aren't even trying to be subtle anymore cause they see nothing is being done. Come on SE!

Next time S-E make an mmo, I hope there is sophisticated software detection of botting and rapid bans, eliminating both it and rmt. Part of the game's budget has to be directed to a dedicated team who investigate the programs players use and update the detection methods used by the game every month to auto flag all suspicious characters for botting and other activities that are detrimental to the game experience like unfair speed hacks / position hacks.

Square is getting their sub money. They won't do anything.

It's can be considered against ToS report and move on. Harassment or cheating. The community usually is lazy with reports because there's a lot to report. Keep at it and we might see this problem resolved.

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Originally Posted by programcanaan

It's can be considered against ToS report and move on. Harassment or cheating. The community usually is lazy with reports because there's a lot to report. Keep at it and we might see this problem resolved.

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There's been people doing this stuff (botting, cheating, wintrading) for a long time but they're still running around happily with rewards they win traded or botted for despite how obvious it is. Its not just people being lazy to report. Not just PvP. Known bitters in PvE for gathering or fates have been going at it for years with no repurcessions. Either the mods don't have the tools/resources to check, or they'd rather let these people run around and continue getting $$$

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Originally Posted by Korihu

There's been people doing this stuff (botting, cheating, wintrading) for a long time but they're still running around happily with rewards they win traded or botted for despite how obvious it is. Its not just people being lazy to report. Not just PvP. Known bitters in PvE for gathering or fates have been going at it for years with no repurcessions. Either the mods don't have the tools/resources to check, or they'd rather let these people run around and continue getting $$$

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That is correct and a fact. Just look through my post history, we have reported people plenty of times. lol