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

[ToffeeCoffee]

Lower Limsa X6 Y12
Bots with their spiritbond gear crafter.

They are all doing this routine again right now in Limsa X6 Y12, still not banned.

[ToffeeCoffee]

Mor Dhona X18 Y17

Just saw them all going back to Mor Dhona X18 Y17 with busy status on, SE can we please have some bot bans handed out here on Tonberry?

[ToffeeCoffee]

They are all doing this routine again right now in Limsa X6 Y12, still not banned.

Back in Limsa crafting more spiritbond gear to bot with X6 Y12...
Hello CM's, GM's..anyone from Square Enix?

[Archvile78]

I see a report i've made a mining bot warping from nodes to nodes in East. Than, didn't do anything, she's still not banned.

[ToffeeCoffee]

Just saw them all going back to Mor Dhona X18 Y17 with busy status on, SE can we please have some bot bans handed out here on Tonberry?

They are now botting in Mor Dhona X18 Y17...hello Square Enix?? Would you care to ban these 4 bots please who have been cheating all day every day in this game for many months?

[SilentSymphony]

Honestly if you want to see how bad the botting situation is hop on excalibur sometime, at all times there are at least 4-5 bot partys SBing, and i know for a fact 3 exploit/botting guilds that lately are increasing in activity.

several times a day you can easily find entire partys of bots logging on and organizing from level 1>50 doing instanced raids


It's out of control, and while it doesn't really hurt someone like me who does crafting near the endgame of crafting, It really hurts new players, and low tier gatherers/crafters

The worst part on my server, There is a player that runs about 6 bots at all times, he owns 5 houses, probably more now, and people cheer him on and support his activitys, almost all of these bots have supra's which you should know are fairly hard to obtain on your own

[Daeva]

It's pretty disgusting that SE is allowing this; I really figured that they'd have a little bit more integrity. I can confirm that the botting is out of hand on Marlboro server as well.

[SilentSymphony]

We need to get more organized, I'm slowly trying to come up with some idea's how we can do that.

First things first, we need more people on this thread posting the state of botting on their servers!

So i urge you, If you're reading this post, ask your friends to get on the forums, If you see someone dissatisfied with it in-game, direct them to this thread as well.

[Fyce]

The saddest thing here is that since this thread is still going on, without any answer from a community rep/dev team, they are just showing that botting is going unpunished, thus showing that it's safe to bot.

So, in short terms, by not banning bots they are encouraging people to bot even more.

Meanwhile, the famous 4 Black Mages of Cerberus are still happily botting. They're not even hidding anymore, they just sit in Mor Dhona, queueing endlessly infront of everyone.
I'm pretty sure that they get at least a dozen reports per day (unless people already gave up...).

[DizzyDragonfly]

I know my friend/FC master quit this game recently because of bots and left me the FC but my sub has expired and I won't renew until I get a reason why these farming bot's haven't been banned, but I'm about to rage quit like my friend did. but for now I'm still hopeful that SE has enough respect for us that something eventually will be done about this. Wake up SE! Please give me a reason to spend my $$$ on your game again, I miss it