Any point in reporting crafting botters?

[rainfish]

If it bothers you then you should, not because they will do anything about it now but that they will investigate and know the kinds of things to look for when they actually do go after them. Main problem they always had was proving they are bots, they can do this if they have plenty of people reporting them to study them.

Square have shown many times in the past, they give players enough rope to hang themselves. It's far better to ban a mass of botters at once and scare everyone than pop a few heads here and there, if you are going to ban players and lose money make a statement. The more high profile and accomplished the players caught in the swarm of bans the better, as proven in FFXI.

[viion]

If it bothers you then you should, not because they will do anything about it now but that they will investigate and know the kinds of things to look for when they actually do go after them. Main problem they always had was proving they are bots, they can do this if they have plenty of people reporting them to study them.

Square have shown many times in the past, they give players enough rope to hang themselves. It's far better to ban a mass of botters at once and scare everyone than pop a few heads here and there, if you are going to ban players and lose money make a statement. The more high profile and accomplished the players caught in the swarm of bans the better, as proven in FFXI.

Not really, look at it in a bots eye: "Woot just avoided the 1500 account ban im pro!". And they continue because their ego is high. Saying that if someone wants to bot, they're going to bot. No warning or ban post is going to change that. People don't do wrong because its illegal, its motive.

FFXI Has proven nothing. RMT Kept coming back, they back now, still exist just as more people left the game there is less demand for gil (and now gil is useless) so the RMT activity is reduced, they focus on games with demand. And XI got to a stage where if you wanted things like HNM you had to bot lol I got kicked out of LS's because I didnt have a claimbot. Was like wtf?! It was as if botting/hacking was the fineline.