Please, do something about all these bots in your game SE.

[Xayoc]

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SE is already working this (hence the 7k accounts banned/suspended for it). It takes time to prove beyond a reasonable doubt these accounts aren't legit. Take it from a FFXI vet, SE takes RMT bots/spam seriously.

[Vagrant-0]

It takes time to prove beyond a reasonable doubt these accounts aren't legit.

Takes about 5 seconds to notice the spam or the fact that that stealthed person gathering materials is just teleporting between nodes. Takes almost as long to see that character teleporting between spawn points. It takes no time at all. Hell, I would happily just run around the world recording all of it to provide such proof... But vigilantism probably wouldn't be appreciated and would only shame those people who have had their accounts stolen.

Why should it take over a week to see any action on even a single bot... Nevermind the few dozen I've seen and reported that are still continuing day after day.

Why should I have to choose between risking my account because of buying materials over marketplace that were obtained from a bot and funding RMT, or have to spend hours of my day trying to compete with them for the same drops? Atleast another player occasionally logs off or loses interest.

[Xayoc]

Takes about 5 seconds to notice the spam or the fact that that stealthed person gathering materials is just teleporting between nodes. Takes almost as long to see that character teleporting between spawn points. It takes no time at all. Hell, I would happily just run around the world recording all of it to provide such proof... But vigilantism probably wouldn't be appreciated and would only shame those people who have had their accounts stolen.

Why should it take over a week to see any action on even a single bot... Nevermind the few dozen I've seen and reported that are still continuing day after day.

Why should I have to choose between risking my account because of buying materials over marketplace that were obtained from a bot and funding RMT, or have to spend hours of my day trying to compete with them for the same drops? Atleast another player occasionally logs off or loses interest.

This one works with a former Blizzard GM and has bounced this issue off of him multiple times. SE's problem is that it doesn't have the GM staff that other MMOs do which allows this issue to propagate. Blizzard has 20+ GMs for every world, SWTOR had even more, so until SE increases the size of it's GM staff (Yoshi did admit to underestimating the demand for this game), gets them trained and monitoring for RMT/Bots, the issue is going to take some time.

[Minigae]

Are you serious? FFXI and 1.0 were some of the most heavily botted/rmt spamming P2P MMOs ever made. Yeah FFXI did eventually do something with the rmt they put out abyssea and killed the game and hence the rmt left for greener pastures. 1.0 was botted from day one till close it never ended or was taken care of. FFXI in the early NA release days was so horrible getting certain nm loots were almost impossible because of the 15 max level JP bots standing around in a circle where the nm spawns(and back then it wasn't random it ALWAYS spawned in the exact same spot). Endgame raiding in ffxi was a bunch of players waiting around watching tv or something while their tag bot got the HNM I mean really SE is about the worst at taking care of RMT.