I just got done reporting 5 alliance sized groups of bots in Western and Central Thanalan on Balmung, I tried to include as many of the bot names as I could target. They're all low level THM characters, just nuking to death anything that spawns near them, in perfect unison. The shout channel in each area was relaying where these groups were, trying to get more people to help. Hopefully I wasn't the only one reporting these groups.
SE, I know you're trying to deal with this, but you're losing the war.
So, how about those RMT Bot armies?
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01-09-2015, 04:37 PMKisikSo, how about those RMT Bot armies?
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01-09-2015, 04:45 PMRiviere
This afternoon, I found about 20 of them on Gridania, completing the Lv15 story quest. I came out of a cut-scene only to find my chat log spammed with the "Out of Ul'dah" achievement and a bunch of those bots teleporting out and more showing up.
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01-09-2015, 04:58 PMAirget
They aren't losing, they are winning. The fact that the RMT are leveling their characters again means that SE has sugessfully eliminated the RMT Blackmages from the game and now the RMT have to start back from square one for the RMT legion of botters.
I really think people need to pay attention to the news on the site before they make post like these because it's to be expected that low lv RMT will pop up again once they have been banned however you need to keep this in mind. You can't assume that they are RMT, while yes they are likely RMT they can't just ban them on the basis that they are a group of THM lving together and working together because you can't assume they are RMT because they haven't done anything to suggest they are RMT.
Only when they have performed an RMT action can they be successfully banned but it takes time but you have to treat these low lv THM as fresh starts with no blemishes on their record. SE can't just say oh group of THM they must be RMT 'ban" cause the moment they make a mistake and ban someone that wasn't RMT they hurt their playerbase and it puts them in a bad place because now they look incompetent in their ability to properly ban RMT if they just randomly start to ban any group of THM lving together. -
01-09-2015, 05:22 PMSynestr
Though what you say is true, I think we all know what is going on here. SE does as well I am sure. Watching them as they lvl. Hell at least one of them had to have subbed. SE will get their money and as soon as they get that fiddy and make a "transaction" they will prolly have to start over.
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01-09-2015, 05:32 PMVespar
If the recent amount of "accounts banned" is anything to go by, SE made off with a fair amount of money from their subs, and the RMT now have to start over from scratch to continue their ways.
Time Period: Dec. 11, 2014 to Jan. 7, 2015
- Accounts receiving disciplinary action for RMT advertising: 2,512
- Accounts receiving disciplinary action for RMT/illicit activity: 4,450
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01-09-2015, 07:27 PMShneibelgood job player, keep buy more gil and complain about BOTS !Quote:
Originally Posted by Vespar
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01-09-2015, 08:34 PMEZ5902
Seems like they just do frig all in some cases, there are some really old bots on Behemoth, there's even a 2 FCs of them, despite reporting them often, they have been here for months in the exact same spot......
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01-09-2015, 09:17 PMmeischoiceBecause someone or a group of people leveling together might legitimately be real players who named their character(s) "Gder Dfer", "Yuio Iuyo", or "Hfdr Rdfh".Quote:
Originally Posted by Airget
Although, what you say is true. SE really can't just ban names left and right, but I also hope SE has some common sense. -
01-09-2015, 09:42 PMSartoriYour wasting your time, theres been a crew of them, they even have their own FC, botting for oh probably 5 monthes now right off of Camp Tranquil. Just amazing how these guys get away with this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kisik
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01-09-2015, 09:43 PMSartoriSeriously, you really think these are legit people lolQuote:
Originally Posted by meischoice
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01-09-2015, 09:45 PMGalaticus
There are still so many of them. I've gotten the most RMT spam on today and this is after the mass ban. :[
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01-09-2015, 09:49 PMlokinmodar
Excalibur is flooded with them. Just go to Sastasha entrance or North Shroud in the plasmoid spot. Someone is making some profit in with the game license sales.
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01-10-2015, 03:39 AMkyuvenHe doesn't. It's sarcasm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sartori
The reason SE doesn't unleash the banhammer each and every time is because they apparently like to do it in large swathes. If they did it each time it'd be like playing whack-a-mole.
See, those accounts are paid. They try to figure out common threads between them, eliminate those threads, THEN drop the hammer.
Of course the main thing people complaining about RMTs don't really realize is that most of them are from compromised legitimate accounts. In other words, people not savvy enough to realize that RMT is against the TOS, and go to those sites, get spyware and keyloggers put on their computer, and then get their accounts and credit cards stolen.