The Hacker and You: How gilsellers steal your account and advertise in your name.

[GomE]

For example today I just farm 10,000 shards + ore. I'm leveling my G.Smith + Weaver and I'm a 34 MNK. It took me 10+ hours to do it (I took break in between of course). There's this one guy I saw that is farming as long as I'm even more efficient that I'm. I checked his profile and he's a 10 PUG with 16Miner. I think he farmed atleast 100k worths of shards if he mananged to sell them (30g per piece currently in my server). I don't think anyone would do that for 10hours straight others than you need it for your proffession. Even if you wanted to get some quick gill from market I
ll understand. But 10hours ? Level 10? Really ?? I just reported him with a sincere suspicion.

As a community we have to keep an eye out for farmer, what is selling greatly in the market, and who's farming em. Not saying whoever farm is a farmer, but 10 hours, you guys know who to suspect and whos not anyway lol. They hurt the market too... really..

[rabbitzero]

ll understand. But 10hours ? Level 10? Really ?? I just reported him with a sincere suspicion. .

There was a post on reddit from a guy who admitted to botting gathering skills. He lets it run constantly when he's not doing other stuff. He was unapologetic, bragging, and so deserving to be banned. His excuse for why it wasn't wrong was "square makes it possible, so it's not exploiting". He even used the "if you don't lock your door, you deserve to be robbed" 'logic'.

Using password/login combinations from other sites is bad, you can buy huge lists of stolen ones, for pretty cheap, and do with them what you like. People seem to not believe this, and blame Square, but notice how this really started when people started talking about how popular the game is, and how many people are playing. Not to mention how hard it is for most players to make gil at cap, while bots can farm over and over. They saw a market, and pounced.

[GomE]

Well if he ever walk on a street and get shot dead, I should reply with his theory ^^

[Alecquis]

I checked his profile and he's a 10 PUG with 16Miner.

Coincidentally my main char in ARR is 12 ARC with 18 BTN. Made a promise with my other half to not level without her. So I'm stuck in Gridania without leves... At least I got all the woods!

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Account stealing is serious business. Give 'em hell!

[GomE]

I know that's why I use the keyword "suspect" lol No offence though