FFXIV: Cheat 2 Win - The New Norm?

[ShinMetsu]

I think there are still some bots around from 1.0 actually.
And there are gathering bots that... well, i've seen them farming 24/7 for like... 8 months now? Since i moved to this server lol

[Pinkie_Pie]

Necro'ing threads

[Niqote]

LM-17, FFXI, your move.

I know right?

For those of you who have only played a FF MMO for a short time (2 years or less) you may not be familiar with their history of tight lipped banhammers that only get spoken about when they put out a statement 'X-Thousand accounts were banned and or suspended for the following category of violations'.

Or when someone who personally got banned makes a thread, which RMT never do.

EDIT: Far-out-necro-brussel-sprout... i'll move along now.

[MihaelB]

Necro'ing threads

There wouldn't be a need to necro threads if the problem has been stopped, it's sad how this has continued since I first ever entered the game

[Arutan]

I don't really agree with the use of cheat, but player respond to SE's bad content in their own way.

The hunt was, is and will always be a trash content, especially because of tards pulling without anyone being here instead of signaling them and wait (and it's like this since the beginning of the hunt). Plus some people take ages to load and have the NM show on their screen, which sometime forbid them to have the kill. We've been complaining for ages about it, asking at least for NM to be like FATE with stats increase depending of the number of people. But nothing has ever been done.
So, what people do when nothing is made to change a crappy situation that SE doesn't care about? They use tier software to make the content DOABLE.

It's kinda exagerated for PvP but I can see where people go with bots. PvP is an uninteresting content, where people are just randomingly rolling their head on their keyboard. I did The Feast for an entire afternoon last sunday to get the Garo mount, and I've never ended a day being so salty. Bless SE for disableing the team chat in The Feast. So if there's something you really want in there, mostly mount, but don't wanna catch cancer, well...

Again, I don't promote the use of cheat, I'm just pointing out that people use cheat not to cheat, but because they're trying to solve content's problem that SE has never be able to solve.
Now there's RMT, who cheat for cheating. Those are garbage.

[PandaPause]

LM-17, FFXI, your move.

LM-17 literally destroyed an end game LS I was in. We were never the same after that and splintered off into other LS's.

[Evangela]

That's actually 10+ bots there. Their legs are under the ground.

How can they make new characters on Balmung anyway?

[Stormfur]

I don't understand why they don't fix that teleport glitch. It would stop bots in their tracks. Temporarily anyway.

[Mwynn]

That's actually 10+ bots there. Their legs are under the ground.

How can they make new characters on Balmung anyway?

Those are the automated RMT Bots with gibberish Name, they usually get banned sooner or later, hence when the Server Re-Opens after a Banwave you see tons of em jumping from NPC to NPC.

Those are completely automated and rather hard to fight back, if SE doesn't involve adding some Protection to the Client. That would get rid of some 3rd Party Tools though and would be bypassed in a matter of a time.

On the other Side there are "Normal" Players like you and me, who use Bot Programs to Gather 24/7, FATE Grind 24/7, Run Duties 24/7, usually not in a FC, if... then mostly the Owner of that Character has more then one Character and they're all in the same Company.

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Now what is easier to detect? A Normal Player turning on his Program once in a while or a RMT Bot with a gibberish Name jumping around from NPC to NPC?

Inbefore People call me Paranoid because of this stuff, no, I think we all know that Players tend to Cheat.
It happened in the Past, it still happens now and it happens in the Future.

We're only able to Report in the End and if Square Enix decides to throw away those Reports, it's ultimately their Decision how they deal with that...

In the End People usually get banned if they cross the Line too much, like using Glitches/Tools for Raids that give a unfair Advantage.

On the other hand it's a Blessing for the Crafters due of the Materials and Crystals / Clusters being cheap in the end. Though... the Gatherers will curse this as they favour Gathering over Crafting.

Pretty much this.

[Renius]

As much as I hate bots I have to admit that it does not stop me from enjoying the game the way I want to. In RL you have bank robbers, poker cheaters, card counters, machines that predict (supposedly) the Lottery numbers, pick pockets, crooks, house vandals, and on and on and on!! This is just a game just remember it is about RE-CREATION. Get in do what you want to do and get out. You are not obligated to deal with these "characters". So much time and effort and back and forth about how someone figured out a way to exploit a game. I say let them do what they do just give us a good enjoyable game with great content that is fun to play 3-4 hours (or whatever many) a day or week and let me have my fun my way.