Known botter top of the Goblin leaderboard for quite some time.

[Shouko]

SE doesn't ban botters only people who use Ungarmax.

Suspension isn't the same thing as a ban. Only thing that gets banned is your account, but you're free to make another one and pay for the game again, nothing new there.

Bots get banned all the time, but usually Gil Sellers or RMT, but they don't stay banned because the people that run them can just make a new account, buy the game again and keep botting. If you try to do something about the bots themselves they just get past the stop gap measures and keep going, you can sue the people who make them as they usually are in different countries that have different laws about it.

As long as there's money to be made in reality off a video game, people will make bots, cheat, hack, do shady things like Lootboxes, etc.

[Stormfur]

and that jerk MCH that avoids killing ice and likes pushing people off cliffs.

I attack the ice but man I love that whoosh when people go flailing off the cliff. <3

[rxnin]

Suspension isn't the same thing as a ban. Only thing that gets banned is your account, but you're free to make another one and pay for the game again, nothing new there.

Bots get banned all the time, but usually Gil Sellers or RMT, but they don't stay banned because the people that run them can just make a new account, buy the game again and keep botting. If you try to do something about the bots themselves they just get past the stop gap measures and keep going, you can sue the people who make them as they usually are in different countries that have different laws about it.

As long as there's money to be made in reality off a video game, people will make bots, cheat, hack, do shady things like Lootboxes, etc.

Where did I mention suspension?

[Astrophysx]

I have a suggestion to make it difficult for botting - Captcha for each queue. That’s right, a verification that you’re human and not a bot in order to queue. This will annoy the hell out of other players, but I think it will work.

[Divinemights]

I have a suggestion to make it difficult for botting - Captcha for each queue. That’s right, a verification that you’re human and not a bot in order to queue. This will annoy the hell out of other players, but I think it will work.

I thought the number of bots on Primal is not a lot.
It is maybe about 5 or 6.
Bot issue is mostly Aether problem.

[Canadane]

I don't Frontlines much these days but I've heard we have just a problem with bots as anyone else.

[LalaSoccer]

The bot in question hasn't PvP'ed for 3 weeks! Maybe he/she got banned.

[Stormfur]

I asked a question about this to the community manager for the upcoming Letter from the Producer... it has 34 likes so far. We will see if it gets answered!

[KageTokage]

I have a suggestion to make it difficult for botting - Captcha for each queue. That’s right, a verification that you’re human and not a bot in order to queue. This will annoy the hell out of other players, but I think it will work.

Capchas don't necessarily work on bots, especially not in a game like XIV that has little security measures in place to keep the data being sent from the servers from being decoded.

They could easily make a script that auto-inputs the correct capcha (And the RMT bots already do so during their automated account creation process), as they're actively reading the data sent from the servers to locate targets as well as react to variables like procs triggering.

[Astrophysx]

Capchas don't necessarily work on bots, especially not in a game like XIV that has little security measures in place to keep the data being sent from the servers from being decoded.

They could easily make a script that auto-inputs the correct capcha (And the RMT bots already do so during their automated account creation process), as they're actively reading the data sent from the servers to locate targets as well as react to variables like procs triggering.

Ah I see. Very well then... bot stomp this weekend anyone? XD