The majority of new characters are bots

[Jennika]

My blacklist has been at 200/200 for months and I can't remember the last time a (deleted) showed up.

[SpiritMuse]

My blacklist has been at 200/200 for months and I can't remember the last time a (deleted) showed up.

Banned characters aren't deleted actually. That might be the reason.

[FoxyAreku]

Can concur, it's always been like this. They simmer down sometimes, but they're always there lurking.

[Tint]

On topic, they've been around forever. This is not new.

when it is not new, then it isn't a problem o.o/

[LunaFaye]

when it is not new, then it isn't a problem o.o/

wrong, it's called feature and working as intended.

[Jennika]

Banned characters aren't deleted actually. That might be the reason.

Well that's definitely the problem then. If these characters are permanently banned why aren't they deleted after a certain time?

[Seig345]

Never used to be like this? I remember groups of em favored a camp in La Noscea back in 1.xx, ohhh the lag!

[Cakekizyy]

Well that's definitely the problem then. If these characters are permanently banned why aren't they deleted after a certain time?

Why bother? Account can't be used anyway.

[Bloody]

Well that's definitely the problem then. If these characters are permanently banned why aren't they deleted after a certain time?

Because that would free up said Cat-On-Keyboard name again to be used. Slowly locking up names may be the slowest way to combat RMT, but ultimately there are only so many millions of combinations of letters they can mash to get names. Also, the banned characters/accounts may not be deleted for archival sake to track other account data not readily available to us which SE uses to help it fight the War on Drug-I mean RMT.

[Warlyx]

They only grind archer to 15 to become blm.

ah so finally learned about JOB , instead of being THM forever

SE needs to start doing something , but like FFXI they are probably overun by bots and by the time they do something is too little to late

but why there are gil selleres ? because there are gil buyers , and why there are gil buyers ? outside glamour items (pets included), and consumables...or maybe leveling DOH/DOH there is little need to have millions of gil