Attention devs: Game Surveillance Unit re: open world Bots.

[AutumnLeaves]

wow....
why have a report function if this is the response.
'my hands are tied" ... i just cant.

can i please have a job on the Task Force SE? please!
you wont even need to pay me. just cover my sub from time to time.
ill catch tons.

I'll join too, I hunt bots out everyday and report them to no avail, I'd love to be on a team to kick these bots asses

[Vladislav]

another bot army on Balmung , SE pls give me ability to punish them :P game will be clean in 1 day

[Radkat]

Actually, I believe the only way to get the dev's attention is to make enough noise about the problem. So far, the complaints about RMT and bots are few and far between, so in SE's book it's not a real problem. Remember when 2.38 came out there was a huge outpouring of complaint about personal housing, and Yoshi had to make a personal response shortly after to explain it.

We need to be loud about it before they take it seriously.

[Hybris-Maenad]

Bumping. It would be really nice to see a community rep response to this thread. The current system pretty much discourages people from reporting.

[ToffeeCoffee]

[AutumnLeaves]

We have bots in those same exact locations on the Zalera server, they stop sometimes to craft in Limsa Lominsa, but for the most part they are always there and have been since I started playing 2 months ago

[Theresa]

This thread is for tonberry's bots only or can I report Malboro's bots here too?

I think these bots are used by gil sellers.

[Sadana]

I've reported so many as well on a bunch of different servers I've played on. My guess, SE wants the 'numbers' for advertising and the income from these accounts. We hate to see them and want them gone, but this reason is my best guess as to why they are not being removed as fast as we'd like and why there is no mod/dev response about this.

For those who use the (annoying but legitimate, I might add) reasoning of "SE can't be SURE these are bots and not 'real players'", look at the screenshot of the clones Vladislav posted, there is NO way to have the afk symbol up while actually playing (and not running a script). My logic says there is the proof they are botting and can be terminated completely from the game. Therefore we are back to 'SE wants the numbers and the money'... and that's just sad.

I think on some threads, a few players will say "The bots aren't bothering you, why be so upset about them?" It's because nothing (imo), even emote or ability spam or other annoying things, ruins the game like seeing a crowd of botted characters auto attacking everything nearby, mining underground, or jumping into walls repeatedly (when afk for a certain time made you auto log out).

[Sub-Xero]

I'd appreciate some service from you Square Enix.

The only "service" you will get from Square Enix is disservice. Square Enix has the WORST customer "service" I have ever encountered and it has spanned across every game of theirs I've ever played on every platform.

[Theresa]

there is NO way to have the afk symbol up while actually playing (and not running a script)

Actually you can. There's an option in the menus that it doesn't auto update when you move or do something.