I have been reporting people who were obviously botting through hours, days, and weeks of fating in northern thanalan since the release of heavensward. Nothing has every been done about this, because it persists. I have tried to contact GM's about it as well, and they don't even reply to me, ever. I shout about it from time to time in northern thanalan and almost always get put down and blacklisted. I have been playing this game since day 1, and I have never botted...
So, I really want to know... I really *need* to know...
Is botting even against the rules? I thought it was cheating? Apparently it's not, but I just thought that I'd ask here before I stopped wasting my time daily, weekly, and monthly on leveling up jobs whenever I could get a free ride instead. (Even though I wouldn't, but yeah, hopefully this catches *someones* attention. Or maybe I'll get banned? This should be interesting.)
Thanks in advance.
So, I really want to know... I really *need* to know...
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10-07-2015, 05:35 PMAzrael_AjoraSo, I really want to know... I really *need* to know...
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10-07-2015, 05:57 PMT2teddy
I tried a little experiment in N Than one day by starting a PF fate group and announcing it. It took about 20 seconds to fill. I have party names display as hot pink and all 7 were right there at Cerulean. So anyway I left the party and started new ones 8 more times and each time ended up with different members each time within the space of around 30 minutes. All in all most members were responding to party chat comments so I'm not so sure the majority of that zone's zerg actually are bots tbh.
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10-07-2015, 06:00 PMAzrael_Ajora
Come to Excalibur with that experiment, I am 99% sure that you will get surprisingly different results. Interesting, nonetheless. . .
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10-09-2015, 01:26 PMDotsusamaI haven't seen any N. Than FATE bots.Quote:
Originally Posted by Azrael_Ajora
But if you mean the ones farming coblyns at the checkpoint north of Bluefog, short of the mining points... yeah, I've reported them too to no effect. :| -
10-09-2015, 11:56 PMAlisiWhat exactly are the bots doing? I haven't done much fate grinding. I can see farming bots but how do these fate bots work?Quote:
Originally Posted by Azrael_Ajora
Forgive the stupid question but what does this signify? If they were joining your pt, wouldn't they be in Cerulean?Quote:
Originally Posted by T2teddy
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10-10-2015, 12:28 AMJamillionHe means they were at the ceruluean aetheryte. He mentioned hot pink because it stands out so presumably he remembers the names a bit better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alisi
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10-10-2015, 12:34 AMAlisiOh, yeah. I get what you're saying. For some reason I thought the OP meant that they were joining the fate parties and just following the other members. I see them everywhere too, usually in groups of five. In the cities, out in random maps, and all that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamillion
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10-10-2015, 12:37 AMWhiteroom
In other threads people state that they have reported bots as well as many other people for something like six months, and that the bots are still there farming. I suggest looking up one of these threads to find some of the answers you are looking for. I can promise you will not be happy about it though.
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10-10-2015, 01:03 AMAlisiWhat's worse, imo, is when you'll fill up your BL. You'll look at it so you can decide which to delete, thinking surely these GS spammers MUST be deleted by now, and see that not one has been. It's like really?Quote:
Originally Posted by Whiteroom
It has to be legal. I mean, on my server, every cities market place has a bot advertising their gold selling services in /s. It's like they have absolutely no fear at all. They advertise day and night in general chat. SE doesn't do anything to them. It's nice to see how SE truly thinking about its customers... -
10-10-2015, 12:47 PMKaiser-Ace
Remember, RMTers are being payed IRL to do this for what ever underhanded company they work for. They get banned, they buy a new product key, make new bots, and keep going.
They can't possibly stop them. It is literally not possible for SE to stop them because it would need national laws to be made IRL to out law them. And that'll likly never happen as well. -
10-10-2015, 10:52 PMAlisiYou are so very, very wrong. I hate to break this to you, but this is not an issue in any other MMO on the market. Even WoW. You'll see maybe a shout or two every five or ten minutes and that's literally all. No tells. No friend requests. No person in a major city advertising their stuff. Nothing. When problems do come up, they are dealt with quickly. It's only FFXIV that's this special little snowflake that can't do anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaiser-Ace
I shouldn't have to put my status on busy because I want to avoid the same GS spam telling me. I shouldn't have a completely full BL in under a month. I shouldn't see bots out in the open like that. It's just BS and it's so laughable to hear people defend this. Go play WoW for a year and come back to FFXIV, then tell me if this game has a problem. GS will never be stopped. That is true. But you can prevent them from harassing your player base. -
10-10-2015, 11:07 PMKaiser-AceI am correct on the way they operate. If they are advertising a web site they work for some one and if they are this wide spread they are making money. This is also one of the Largest MMO populations since the fall of the WoW Golden Age so of course they're here en mass. They wouldn't be here at all if they weren't making money some how.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alisi
The actual underlying problem is how they are being disciplined or lack there of. if your account is banned you can quite easily make a new for for 60 USD. The way WoW and other MMOs handled it was by banning IP Addresses which are not so easily changed.
Banning accounts 4000 per week doesn't even cull their numbers. To ban them effectively once an RMT account was verified, banning their IP Address would near permanently dispose of them. THAT is the difference here.
I hate them as much as anyone else, but since Balmung was put on Quarantine for the Sake of Aether Data Center's Stability, I've not seen a single RMTer on Balmung since the end of 2.55. -
10-10-2015, 11:31 PMAlisiI never said GS will go away. I said they would always be out there. The difference is how SE deals with this problem. IE: practically nothing. If you're not getting them then it's obvious that they can deal with it but they aren't. Every other MMO deals with this. SE needs to step up to the plate and deal with this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaiser-Ace
WoW still has a larger player base (and it's increased after the announcement of the new expac) and I started in the 'golden age' of WoW. Never had a problem with gold spammers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaiser-Ace