Any reason to report this?

I have been playing for a few months and it seems since last i was on there is little to nothing done about the RMT bots, i dont care and can ignore the ones that spam in city but its the high lvl ones that teleports arouund, speed hack and kills mobs so you are stuck for hours, sometimes days on a quest.

Is there any point in reporting them?... they aint getting banned or deleted, i still see some from 2 months ago running around still, heck, even 20 of em have a FC full of em and they are still there.

Doesnt seem SE care at all.

bots are banned in waves. but as soon as they are banned, more are registered. it's a never ending story unfortunately. as long as people buy gil (and they do) there will be bots.

Insert Hail Hydra meme.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

bots are banned in waves. but as soon as they are banned, more are registered. it's a never ending story unfortunately. as long as people buy gil (and they do) there will be bots.

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Indeed the only way to combat RMT is to well... stop RMTing.
Reporting them doesn't hurt though. It's still nice to throw a wrench in the machine that is the RMT farmlands.

you know those reports you see on the lodestone every so often?

・Participation in RMT/prohibited activities
　・Accounts terminated: 2701
　・Accounts temporarily suspended: 1

there needs to be a harsher penalty for people buying gil. Unfortunately they were only able to reliably get that one person they caught for buying gil. Probably because they made it obvious they did. And all they get is a temp ban. It's still a mark on their record though but that's all they get.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

you know those reports you see on the lodestone every so often?

・Participation in RMT/prohibited activities
　・Accounts terminated: 2701
　・Accounts temporarily suspended: 1

there needs to be a harsher penalty for people buying gil. Unfortunately they were only able to reliably get that one person they caught for buying gil. Probably because they made it obvious they did. And all they get is a temp ban. It's still a mark on their record though but that's all they get.

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I wonder how it will turn out when they fully ban/delete the accounts of players who buy gil from those bot services.

they'll never do that because they want people to keep playing the game.

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Originally Posted by DrWho2010

they'll never do that because they want people to keep playing the game.

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So it's basically totally fine to break the ToS then.

Why make a ToS in the first place then?

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Originally Posted by Fhaerron

Why make a ToS in the first place then?

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Because if they actually had 14 million players like they brag about, they could actually enforce them. But when you tell the media 14m and only have maybe 500k you need to hold onto them as hard as you can to give the illusion your numbers are real.

hmm :/

its sad thou.. the bots destroy the auctionhouse/board currently... not 5sec after you post something a bot post it cheaper its repeatedly.

anyways i guess ill ignore reporting as its not taken seriously by SE.

and now to wait for maintenance

Unless you're selling shards I don't think that's much of an issue.