Bot problem!

Hello community,
i am reporting since weeks a group of botters, always the same guys at the same place, and nothing happening. i am going there ever 2nd day and they are still there.
Some times, i meet there other players , who tell me that they are reporting them too since weeks. So what am i doing wrong and all the other guys, going to that spot just to check, if they are again there and report them?! I mean is Square Enix ignoring such reports?!

They will block them but not one by one. It is just too much work for SE to watch the entire world 24/7.

Also, those botters are one of their 'customers' since they are paying subscription unless a hacked account kicked in. So, they are giving them some time to be addicted(if those botters are not bot factory ones) or taking some probation period to let those botters profit before banned so that they will open a new account. It is kind of pricky way to operate a game but many companies tend to rely on. A good example are Korean MMO game companies like NC.

Of course, I can discuss all day about the disaster if those cheaters are allowed to roam long enough.

If you want to see a bot problem, do a player search and uncheck everything except archers level 40+

So that means i can bot in FF14 and it has no consequences! gg

Best thing to do if you have time to, is report them using the support tab in the game which is located under the orange "XIV" system menu button. There is a section in there for specifically reporting bots and it archives past your reports, their reply status. There is enough space to write the specifics you posted here, the fact that the botters have been there for a while. It does take time for them to investigate each account.

Square Enix dont give a crap about bots.

Bot away, they're all over, adding to house prices.

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Originally Posted by momomann

So that means i can bot in FF14 and it has no consequences! gg

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Lol. There is a small fc of botters who are also high level relic+1 players in my server. Well they are still around.... player bots I reported since first month of launch are still running around. So.... SE piority RMT > Hacked acct > Haressments > Players who bot, hack and throw infinite stacks of 99 same shit everyday in the market.

I used to report every single one I found but after three months with seeing the same damn names overnight, I gave up with bothering. Want to see some retainers for bots? Just search fast selling mats and see one name with a ton of stacks for sell, like crystals. Heck the GMs could just track down the owners of those retainers to catch botters, do they? Heck no they don't.

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Originally Posted by Seraph

If you want to see a bot problem, do a player search and uncheck everything except archers level 40+

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Woah, harsh.

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Originally Posted by Pavise

Woah, harsh.

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I believe he meant archers only. Lvl 40+ with no sub class or jobs.

using the report function of the game is useless!!! have done it a few times in the last weeks, noone cares. my mates did the same, noone cares. told even the FC leader about the botters of his own FC but he seems to doesnt care about it. fc donations of over 10 million gil for the housing, i know where that come from^^

are officials looking into this forum btw?

Bots are like the corruption in governments. Everyone sees it, people get pissed about it, they report it but since the people at the top A) dont care or B) are working with said bots, nothing will ever change. Welcome to how SE handles RMT. Please look forward to seeing those same bots for many a year to come!

If they are combat bots I just open a trade with them until they die .. makes me smile

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Originally Posted by Jirnelle

If they are combat bots I just open a trade with them until they die .. makes me smile

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Unfortunately they know that setting yourself to busy status blocks all trade requests

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Originally Posted by momomann

So that means i can bot in FF14 and it has no consequences! gg

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If you leave FFXIV ARR before the banhammer to he unleashed by SE. Botter accounts will be blocked someday but not near future.

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Originally Posted by Jirnelle

If they are combat bots I just open a trade with them until they die .. makes me smile

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Two things, first off reporting them is just a waste of your time, I've reported people, come back HOURS later they are still there, come back a few days later, they are still there, killing Apkallu's south of Costa Del Sol near where Cancer pops. So I give up on reporting, if SE allows them to cheat, then they have nobody to blame for the bad ingame economy except themselves.

Secondly, Jirnelle, I freakin' LOVE YOU. I had no idea about trading with them to make them die, I am so gonna try that. If the aren't botters, then they won't die and I will apologize to them for bugging them with my trade, but we all know they are botters and derserve the ingame death that I will soon leash upon them. :) Thanks again Jirnelle. :)

I just did a quick check for Ice Shards for sell on Exodus. One retainer is selling 18k of them at 7 gil a piece. Next retainer on the list is selling 10k of them for the same price. That is just two people, it doesn't include the others selling them at the same price. You don't have to go far to find who has the bots, yet there they stay with nothing done about them. Its blatantly obvious SE doesn't give a crap about doing anything about them. They only go after the RMT chat spammers and sellers when they find them and they only did that after the huge uproar from the community during the first month.

I remember when I first played Aion when it was released. They had a huge bot and RMT problem but coming from the Asian culture, they didn't go after it right away. Well it pretty much chased off most of the subs after the game hit its 3 month mark including myself. I was half scared the same thing would happen to this game. It just drives me nuts how the cheaters are ruining the in game market. Its bad enough as it is will the derp undercutters but the botters dumping their stuff on the market sure doesn't help.

O well the bottom line is, they sell RMT because of profit!!

There are a few private botters running grind but they don't operate professionally. So, their impact on game economy isn't so critical but a few annoyances like those chicken gaming undercutters. However, those professional RMT sellers never operate without profit and they actually ruins the economy to end up hyper-inflation just like that African country.

Aaaaand, companies cannot wield banhammers freely due to shareholders... Usually those RMT operate like a giant factory shop. Just like:
http://pds21.egloos.com/pds/201204/0...12bd7259fc.jpg

If these many accounts disappear in one day and never come back due to profit reason? It's not good for shareholder's view(Of course, normal players finally met the Justice.) Each of these factory(?) machines running subscription fee and already paid package price(if it's NA price model. Korean MMOs usually only charge subscription fee.) Of course, we can account a few hacked accounts but I guess hacking incident is not so frequent in NA(hopefully, less than Korea, where the shot came from) and takes more effort than opening a new account for such factory(?) owners.

./sigh

I saw an underground bot and reported them but saw them there a week later.
I know SE tends to ban in "masses" but its too long and by then the market is ruined.
At this point things that are gathered through low level botany are worthless so I just get them to use myself and never sell them to anyone.

Overall with 2.1 there's even less meaning to craft now that you can get DL gear so easily. Only useful craft now is Culinary but due to over-saturation of the market, once again I only craft to make use for myself and my FC.

Well I try to do my part and at least make a report. Did so yesterday(along with a few other Ragnarokians) in West Than. We watched a couple bots warp around for hours.

Here you go, another example.

Here is a free company full of them, click me!

Many more out there just like this one.

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Originally Posted by LordSideKicks

I believe he meant archers only. Lvl 40+ with no sub class or jobs.

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I was taking the piss out of med since he's in the same FC as me.