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

[Len]

32 pages, 311 posts; you'd think this would warrant a response from a community rep.

How does Square Enix plan on dealing with this situation?

[Mack]

How does Square Enix plan on dealing with this situation?

By adding more bots. Who cares, for now? SE went out of their way to get rid of RMTs in this game, so much so that they initially made the game pretty much unplayable for the sake of diluting the RMT community, you don't think they'll take care of bots? for now...who cares, seriously? the game has bigger problems than bots at the moment and if the game fails then SE doesn't even have to consider botters at all.

[Draco]

I totally understand what you are saying about boting. It does suck, however, it truly is not as easy as reporting someone and getting them kicked. GM's and developers are super busy with bringing content and completing this game to make it PS3 ready. I am sure there is a team that is devoted to boting and I am also sure they have a "naughty list" compiled of everyone that has been boting and on what servers. Once this games poplutation reaches a number that can actually begin to generate income for SE, they will more than likely comence with "Opperation Clean Sweep" lol. Also, sometimes it is not the best idea to just kick a bot once discovered. You can learn alot about a bot by watching what the character does. You can actually make it so that a specific bot program can no longer be used at all on your game just by doing this. I guess for now just look to the future

[Azurymber]

Journey: http://viion.co.uk/upload/files/journey.jpg
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5G2cYWKhpY

Iron > Skull > Beard > Limsa > Ferry > Horizon > Blackbrush > Drybone > Tranquil > Humblehearth > Emerald Moss > Glory > Dragon Head > Riversmeet > The Lance

how did you do all those cool graphics at the start?

[TheVedis]

32 pages, 311 posts; you'd think this would warrant a response from a community rep.

How does Square Enix plan on dealing with this situation?

they responded to a previouis post about this
just cuz someone makes a new post about the same topic doesnt mean they need to respond again

[Arcell]

@OP: You clearly never played Aion. There were bots spamming /shout constantly IN THE MAJOR CITIES selling kinah. It wasn't for quite a long time (after I quit 8 months after launch) that they actually started doing anything about it. There were bots everywhere.

FFXIV, yes you do see the occasional obvious bot team but I tend to never see them more than once and usually they're just standing in camp idling.

[sketch]

@OP: You clearly never played Aion. There were bots spamming /shout constantly IN THE MAJOR CITIES selling kinah. It wasn't for quite a long time (after I quit 8 months after launch) that they actually started doing anything about it. There were bots everywhere.

FFXIV, yes you do see the occasional obvious bot team but I tend to never see them more than once and usually they're just standing in camp idling.

ye i havent but i have seen them in countless other mmo's since most dont have a harsh stance as se they r rampant eveywhere else

[Abriael]

Just because someone doesn't care to respond to you, or spends his time crafting/fishing (very possibly while doing something else at the same time), he/she isn't necessarily a bot.

Just giving an heads-up.

[Luluna]

I saw four in LL earlier all alchemists in weathered gear all making the same shards and all the same level...one was Balin Jerry like another poster has said and Lin Crrrr something or other.

[Azurymber]

Just because someone doesn't care to respond to you, or spends his time crafting/fishing (very possibly while doing something else at the same time), he/she isn't necessarily a bot.

Just giving an heads-up.

Your right... those people who camp in a cave for 4 days straight fighting the 3 things that pop 24/7 are definitely playing but not responding.

either way next time read the post before you decide to respond:
"And for those who say "how do you know they are botting", a bit of youtube searching allows you to watch videos of the bots and see the obvious tells (which i wont discuss on here)."]

just to be clear, bots do follow certain patterns and exhibit certain behaviours which -do- make them noticeable. Especially when they glitch out, which is usually kind of funny.