North Thanalan Botting

[Kosmos992k]

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The reason it's so "easy" for FFXIV bots to exist is that there's no protection on the game binaries, so players and botters can just drop whatever files they want into the program directory and the game will happily let hook/injections run.
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The fight against botting requires better self-protections in the software before anything will change.

Agreed, but when the developers can't (or won't) even secure the server-side database against teleportation hacks, sanity check movements, or even enforce basic in-world geometry to prevent 'underground' mining, I can't see them doing anything to protect the executable or integrity of the game client when the database and/or game servers are as open for abuse as they appear to be.