Dear Square Enix - this is tragic, it really is sickening and disgusting

[ShinigamiKiba]

I bought a 4th retainer today
I support this game
I love it more than anything
I understand these ...things...keep the material flow cheap or some such but I go out and farm my own stuff when I need it

[Zephyr-Umbra]

It is disgusting to see, however i've said it before and i'll say it again, these bots/gil/gold sellers will always exist if there if a market for it, the game is a few years old now, if there was no market for profit wouldn't stick around, in fact you can tell which servers are craving into it by the larger presence and more tenacious attitude of them. I've played three servers over my time during FF14 ARR and i've noticed they're a lot more active on certain servers while barely present on others.

Unfortunately there is only so much SE can do, and as players all you can really do is report them. It's easier to avoid purchasing gil from gil spammers than it is purchasing items these bots.

The other day on my alt server of cerberus i found four bots inside that small cave located the furthest south west in corthas, farming the mobs there for days.

[charlemagne]

Personally I won't even buy shards from the ah any more. it's a pain farming them myself but I can't bring myself to buy them from the ah knowing they are more than likely from rmt.

[Evergrey]

Also depends from server to server.
Some got more gilseller spams while other don't.

[ShinigamiKiba]

Personally I won't even buy shards from the ah any more. it's a pain farming them myself but I can't bring myself to buy them from the ah knowing they are more than likely from rmt.

mining and gathering relaxes me anyways
I just put some good music on and go mine wheneve I feel sleepy and just want to do nothing other than listen to music and doze off from time to time.
Mining and botany were made for that

who needs their botted up filthy shards when we can get better ones ourselves

[Bluevann]

Chrome isn't loading that picture for some reason. What is it about?

[Conradus]

I bought a 4th retainer today
I support this game
I love it more than anything
I understand these ...things...keep the material flow cheap or some such but I go out and farm my own stuff when I need it

And your point being...?

[ShinigamiKiba]

Chrome isn't loading that picture for some reason. What is it about?

I reuploaded it to imgur
it wasn't loading for a friend either, hope it works now for everyone

it's a pic of a bunch of bots I saw in limsa earlier

[Nadrojj]

Tragic, sickening and disgusting? All words that do not describe this situation. They will never be able to get rid of bots 100% when people are keeping them in business by buying gil from them so they can buy wins. Sorry bud, just going to have to build a bridge and get over it like the rest of us.

[ShinigamiKiba]

Tragic, sickening and disgusting? All words that do not describe this situation. They will never be able to get rid of bots 100% when people are keeping them in business by buying gil from them so they can buy wins. Sorry bud, just going to have to build a bridge and get over it like the rest of us.

At least in WoW if they were from the opposite faction you could kill them
same in TERA tho i never saw many bots in TERA, maybe it didnt have any who knows

I love FF14 so much and I know little can be done about them but damn
when you see a group of clones like this with names consisting of random characters or gil selling sites ban their asses asap imo