A Thought on the Forthcoming Live Letter QA

[HyoMinPark]

Given the number of comments addressing botting (of all kinds, from PvP to crafting/gathering to the trickling of them into content like Eureka), and given the likes each comment is steadily accruing, I will be severely disappointed if the guest at the Live Letter does not answer a single one of them.

Just because botting isn’t an issue on the JP servers does not mean it’s not an issue elsewhere, or that it should be ignored. Frontlines is already nightmarish if your GC ends up having the most bots, and even though I do not craft or gather much for profit, the dominating bots are doing in the crafting markets—and I’m not just talking about Cactuar here; there are other servers that have it worse than we do—is just not right, and prevents legitimate crafters from making a profit (not that legitimate crafters need bots to make bank; sounds like the crafting bots just need to git gud). Something needs to be done.

[Xiomara]

Just because botting isn’t an issue on the JP servers does not mean it’s not an issue elsewhere, or that it should be ignored.

Haven't seen PVP bots, but I have seen Gathering & FATE bots on my JP server. So they do exist.

[XenoCranel]

Haven't seen PVP bots, but I have seen Gathering & FATE bots on my JP server. So they do exist.

Have you tried reporting them and what was the result of that? I think it would be a helpful insight to learn how things are handled on JP servers and if questions are being raised regarding botters from JP server players for the upcoming live letter?

[KageTokage]

if questions are being raised regarding botters from JP server players for the upcoming live letter?

As far as I've seen from browsing the JP Q&A thread, the majority of the popular questions are just personal ones regarding the dev's work history and such, and nothing actually pertaining directly to XIV.

There was one person asking about what the most common type of misdemeanor the STF has to deal with is, but not one person complaining about bots.

I assume the issue is so minor on the JP servers that most people don't even notice/care.

[XenoCranel]

As far as I've seen from browsing the JP Q&A thread, the majority of the popular questions are just personal ones regarding the dev's work history and such, and nothing actually pertaining directly to XIV.

There was one person asking about what the most common type of misdemeanor the STF has to deal with is, but not one person complaining about bots.

I assume the issue is so minor on the JP servers that most people don't even notice/care.

Yeah, I just checked their market. Prices are very low compared to most NA servers by like 80% for most end-game content items I saw at least.