Is anyone annoyed by the HUGE number of people using bots on this game?

[Joeking]

For me personally I'm not affected by the bots, I can't blame them either consider the state of the game. I guess its mainly a problem for the real crafter, since there legitimate hard work is for nothing when we can buy the same item off the bot for chips.

[JayvirDeforte]

On Besaid, any character with the name "Bes _____" is a bot. You can see Bes Kitty near the Hyaline in LL breaking down fish for months straight and armies of Bes's flood camps on a regular basis. Of course, all rank 1 gear.

[TonyMontana]

i dont think its anywhere near 25%
but i wouldnt be surprised if it was a high number such as 5% or so
(which is still alot)

also just cuz people have alot of 05s dont make them bots, if i didnt work id be 50 in everything already myself, and i dont bot

You are the exception not the rule. Honestly I would be fine with a few honest innocent players getting banned if it would eliminate all of the bots. If you have 10+ 50s at this point in the time line of the game there is a very very very good chance you NEED someone to force you to stop playing.

[Joeking]

You are the exception not the rule. Honestly I would be fine with a few honest innocent players getting banned if it would eliminate all of the bots. If you have 10+ 50s at this point in the time line of the game there is a very very very good chance you NEED someone to force you to stop playing.

That seems a little bit cruel to the players that did put up with this mess only to lose there hard work, the legitimate ones anyway. Would you be fine if you got swept up with the bans as well? Wouldn't be right to inflict that to someone if you aren't able to take it yourself.

[TonyMontana]

That seems a little bit cruel to the players that did put up with this mess only to lose there hard work, the legitimate ones anyway. Would you be fine if you got swept up with the bans as well? Wouldn't be right to inflict that to someone if you aren't able to take it yourself.

Actually I would be fine with it, i dont have a 50 and my account was activated on sept 22nd. This game doesnt run my life tho so starting over wouldnt be that big of a deal.

[Azurymber]

Proof? And STF is down. But i'm on every day and never see the same ppl crafting in the same places. Also what are they Flooding the market with? i barly can get armor in this game.

no offence or anything.. but are you just a troll?
You have 2300 posts on here, you claim your sig has your correct levels, yet you keep posting about things in this game like you're an expert. Its just a bit confusing.

[NotApplicable]

They're not going to ban the bots right now because they can't afford to lose any more players.

[TheVedis]

That seems a little bit cruel to the players that did put up with this mess only to lose there hard work, the legitimate ones anyway. Would you be fine if you got swept up with the bans as well? Wouldn't be right to inflict that to someone if you aren't able to take it yourself.

with how SE does their bannings its hard for legit players to get hit by accident

i mean how hard is it to respond to a GM message
or not talk to anyone ever while crafting legit

they usualy watch players to see if they are bots or not legit before they hit them(unlike some other games who ban you purely for having alot of gold with no investigation)


also while the STF is "down" they are still active too, bannings are happening just not in the way they would if they were up like they normaly would be
ive seen 3 bots banned from reports so far on besaid

[Joeking]

Actually I would be fine with it, i dont have a 50 and my account was activated on sept 22nd. This game doesnt run my life tho so starting over wouldnt be that big of a deal.

You have nothing to lose, thus nothing to gain.

Just consider them decoration at least it looks like there are people at Limsa, even if they are bots I enjoy seeing the random person in some secluded place. All mmo's have bots most of them aren't tedious like XIV is, its almost justifies the act.. almost.. Like people have said in other threads you would have to be masochist to craft.

[Len]

I'm annoyed by it to, but since this game doesn't have a full time STF staff yet I'm not surprised by this.

Hopefully they got logs on them so when it happens, massive bans all over.

It would be sweet, sweet justice to see them all get banned right before the release of major content.