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

[ToffeeCoffee]

Still botting, same location, no action taken.

Still not banned, now they are in Limsa West Hawker's Alley collecting new spiritbond gear from their crafter (X6 Y12).
They are also trying to trade gil & materia to me that they acquired through botting, which I am rejecting.



Will you ever ban these bots SE?

Edit: They're back to botting Plasmoids in Mor Dhona now X18 Y17.

[Aleczan]

They are trying to trade you the gil O_o What? Trying to get you banned for taking illegal money?

[ToffeeCoffee]

They are trying to trade you the gil O_o What? Trying to get you banned for taking illegal money?

Yeah this is the 2nd or 3rd time they've attempted to trade me 1m gil.

[SalemP]

Either trying to bribe you or get you banned. Probably the latter. If they were trying to bribe you, I imagine they'd use a /tell.

These bots are still on Ultros running 24/7 it appears to me. I've been on all different times of the day, and logged in for long periods of time. Nothing has hindered them, they have not been banned. Considering they're running 24 hours and there are at least 12 of them, they must be pulling in a lot of money/items/etc.

[ToffeeCoffee]

Tonberry bots still not banned.
x4 killing Plasmoids in Mor Dhona right now X18 Y17.

[PrimeEvilPanda]

They're trying to get you banned. That's cheeky. You must have stirred the pot (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[ToffeeCoffee]

Tonberry
Eastern Thanalan X28 Y21
Same characters (all BLM) repeatedly interacting with NPC Kazagg Chah and porting into what looks to be a class quest (50 quest for Wizard's Coat). They jump as they come out and repeat. One even managed to get stuck under the ground somehow.
Square Enix would you care to take a look into this and ban the bots that are doing this?
One can only hope. This game has more of a low standard free to play feel than ever.

[dannycookies]

(Balmung) North Shroud plasmoids. About 5 of them are there constantly. They all have the same attack, healing, and targeting patterns. If you Google their names, you can see that people have been reporting them since at least April. Nothing has been done. It's insane that they've both been allowed to operate so long and completely out in the open without any GM intervention.

[AutumnsHollow]

There's actually been a group of bots on Siren that I have reported with friends multiple times that haven't gone away. It's been about three months now, and I only report them when I see them, but they went from plasmoids in coertheas where noone really goes to getting bold and going to plasmoids in north shroud.

It's two elezean scholars, one lala black mage, and one hume white mage. All wearing spirit bond gear going at it 24/7. My reports of them also never show up in my history, it's annoying. I wish they would do something about them.

[Mjollnir]

Maybe they're S-E's own bots?

After they realised that demand vastly outstripped supply for high-tier materia due to Novus weapons and that materia prices would become unaffordable for all but the 1%, in an effort to prevent players feeling they needed to buy gil, the devs have made these SB parties and set them loose.

All the gil they make from selling the materia is then just dumped, helping both the players and the economy out!

Perhaps...