Just Another 3rd party bot BUT 1000 TIMES WORSE

[SAMINUS]

Peregrine, our drama-queen at her best.
Gogo, savior of the clueless.

...

Now I actually fear she might take that literally.

We all play our roles in this Drama Comedy (Dramedy)...

[Peregrine]

I'm not going to pretend some of your all's black mages weren't banned for fleehacking as you claim you're innocent.
The concrete operational mind is the only one who thinks we can't tell exactly what they're thinking.
They *actually* think they can hide their motivations.

Nah, we see you all. We know why you argue for what you argue. You just don't know that we know, so to find out is quite enraging and shocking since you figure you'd get away with hiding your motivation for saying quite stupid things.

But by all means. Look at your world where your "innocent" are spared.

This is how the world is if some of you all get your way.
And a good portion of you LIKE it.

Well, congrats. You're the only ones left. No legitimate player is going to take this game seriously if the game ever gets to be competitive. Your game becoming a haven for botters and self-entitled mass cheating is a never event in a MMO.

Because then all you have on your hands is a bunch of lying cheaters who even if they CAN keep the lights on cheating against each other, your company name becomes a joke.

Square Enix doesn't make furry costumes because it would hurt their image even if it'd make them money. Do they develop games for the cheating gamer?

Looks like it to me.

I don't tolerate games that tolerate cheaters.
And what's more, I don't patronize a company who does.

This industry has standards. If SE wants to cash in on the vast untapped reserves of people who cheat in videogaming, hey. Novel idea. There sure are a lot of them.

But they're the scum of this genre, and if you cater to them...so is your name.

This is the part where all the cheaters and bot sympathizers say good riddance so they can continue to cheat without pressure from their peers, and this is the part where square enix says shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii HOLD ON HOLD ON BANNINGS COMING.

[Rinsui]

Nah, we see you all.

Yikes! The army of ever-multiplying Peregrines is upon us!

[Ichi]

lol whats this business about defending yourself, theres no excuse for botting and nobody here is calling for a ban on all players that have been complained about there are ways to detect botting beyond 0% of a doubt for example, when you see a char teleport across the field or attack a monster 5 times away from his range. A case for defense in such an example is wasteful. This isn't the United states of america, and this real company doesn't really owe anyone anything. BTW they ban rmt regularly in XI without any "Trails" and I have heard stories about someone claiming to have been doing nothing wrong. Low and behold SE's still here furthermore XIs still here.

You think you have any right to talk about someone else's idealist beliefs when the irony is that your simply touting your own idealist bs about what's 'real' as if you know so much.

[SAMINUS]

conspiracy theory?

[Peregrine]

Square Enix has a new-found reputation of making crappy, stale, out of touch games now. There. I said it. We all know it. We don't wish it, but that is what the Square Enix logo says to gamers in 2011.

Add to that the 8 month-going reputation that they are friendly to cheaters in an online environment.

Square Enix's name is on the line here. We as a gaming community don't believe little Joe afterschooler when they say they get banned for no reason, because their stories are always hilariously suspicious. Those people are free to lie through their teeth and fake that they didn't get their asses kicked to the curb for any reason, but we all know that they just got pwned and karma bit them finally.

We respect Square Enix when we see affected brats trying to pretend they were unfairly banned, because we know they're just trying to cover their ass that just got rightfully beaten.

We do not respect Square Enix like this. I won't recommend this game to any legitimate player if it continues to allow cheaters to progress like this. I won't even recommend it if it starts now and lets all the cheaters stay if they stop cheating.

I would like nothing more than a bunch of affected brats to come screaming here en-mass sunday night, every one of them with their own cockamamie story as to how they were innocent.

And here comes the message.
A Major Square Enix Task Force investigation has been completed for Final Fantasy 14. As a result of these investigations, 2397 accounts and 13,457 characters have been banned for RMT and third party program use, resulting in a loss of 135,450 crafting levels, 165,220 battling levels, and 56.7 billion gil has been removed from the economy.

To that, a hundred cheaters go WHAAAAAA IT WAS MY BROTHER.
To that, I go LMAO PWNED.

On that day, Square Enix's reputation goes UP. The more brats come on here and lie, the more it goes up.

[Vahzl]

I am starting to think Shirley Phelps-Roper is playing FFXIV... on Wutai, and currently has Conjurer and Blacksmith at R50.

[Firon]

Good lord this thread is still going jeez someone needs to sign up for SE's STF. Mod please close this thread and e-mail someone an application.

[SAMINUS]

Square Enix has a new-found reputation of making crappy, stale, out of touch games now. There. I said it. We all know it. We don't wish it, but that is what the Square Enix logo says to gamers in 2011.

I miss SquareSoft...

[Peregrine]

Good lord this thread is still going jeez someone needs to sign up for SE's STF. Mod please close this thread and e-mail someone an application.

I wouldn't work for them, having failed every objective they were supposed to meet, monumentally.
They're protecting the only cash cow they have faith in, which is FFXI.
This game's been left to the rats it seems.

Can't make a subscription game with free to play mentality.
Can't build a respectable fan base when disreputable garbage players scav around the game 24/7 unchecked.

We're not interested in **** product like that.

Whoever's decision it was to not stay on top of RMT and cheating in this game likely cost this company a next-gen MMO no matter how hard Yoshida works. The harder he works, the harder the cheaters and RMT will take his cookies and make his game ****. They own this game. Yoshida doesn't.

Now the botters know this game's code better than the game's team does. Elevation hacks. Put their weapons away and agro just disappears? And they don't show up on radar to these people? For over a half year? Can't even mount a single successful anti-cheating operation? Not even a simple physical sweep?

How many RMT have been banned? How many cheaters caught?
Five?

What's the ****ing difference between shouting for gil sales in town and Square Enix pretty much doing that advertisement for them? All Nanawas have botters in them, right now. Every server. Every Tam Tara has botters in them. Every server. Same bot. They've been there for almost a year now. They take the shards they farm and they create high-level crafters with them or sell them for gil. Whatever they think is the most valuable asset.

And in every town there are craftbotters. Outside towns, in caves there are shardbots and craftbots. Go into special zone cutscenes, and you're likely to come across a player bot. Those are the cheating players too scared to bot with their alts right out in the open like RMT do, and too chicken to craftbot with their primary day job.

RMT know they already own this game. There is nothing Square Enix can do now to cut them off, and they seem to think they can whenever they want. SE just doesn't get it. RMT have probably switched 700 billion gil around so many times by so many measures that SE has no freaking clue what's what. That gil probably looks cleaner than the money on my retainer now. Want a R50 battler? Why, they have every make and model. Don't want to level crafting? They have em all, Buy 3R50 crafts, get the 4th free.

The only consolation to anyone here is that this game's so dead that the parasites are starting to back off it because there's just nothing left to pick. It's gone. It's spent. RMT have all the gil, all the characters, and all the assets they'll ever need. They are set for this game's LIFE if it ever comes back to it. So do the cheating self-entitled player base that squatted FFXI. Deleted darter dats. Employed voke bots. Salvage dupes. Flee hacks. Dyn hacks.

Square Enix is encouraging that kind of player with an open door policy. STF was the best thing to ever happen to RMT and the cheating elite.

That kind of illegitimate force will always remember where this game's dead carcass is in case it ever gets back up. Square Enix will realize just how stupid this decision to do nothing was the second this game actually gets good. If this game lifts so much as a finger, RMT will chew it straight off and then return to Rift, or WoW2. Or whatever takes their attention because FFXIV is already taken care of as far as RMT are concerned. Easy-peasy.