Hello friends, I have a question.

[Jeeqbit]

If you reported them, they will take note but won't respond. Their action will not be immediate either.

They report to us on the lodestone how many bots they banned each week. Here is the latest report:

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...4ce1b1421efe1a

Time Period: May 16, 2019 to May 22, 2019

・Participation in RMT/prohibited activities
　・Accounts terminated: 4,930
　・Accounts temporarily suspended: 9
・Botting activity (Using any number of third party tools that allow for automation)
　・Accounts terminated: 2
　・Accounts temporarily suspended: 13
・RMT advertising
　・Accounts terminated: 1,336

There are so many of them that you would never notice the above had happened and they most likely don't go to any great legal lengths to stop them making new accounts, but I really wouldn't know.

[Halivel]

they most likely don't go to any great legal lengths to stop them making new accounts

They don't have a reason for it, though. As much as bots are annoying and even kind of harmful for playerbase, so much they are actually profitable for the company, since it's a P2P game. Every bot is a sold copy of the game, a decent amount of money after every ban wave when accounts-holder buys new copies to continue his botting. So it is... kind of very thin balance, I suppose? Doesn't sound good when you think about it, yes, but it is what it is.

[AlphaFox]

They don't have a reason for it, though. As much as bots are annoying and even kind of harmful for playerbase, so much they are actually profitable for the company, since it's a P2P game. Every bot is a sold copy of the game, a decent amount of money after every ban wave when accounts-holder buys new copies to continue his botting. So it is... kind of very thin balance, I suppose? Doesn't sound good when you think about it, yes, but it is what it is.

Sadly it is how I imagine it too. Stopping them 100% would be a cut into the sales they make, which I suppose could also go to inflating numbers of "X amount of accounts created" or "X copies sold". Yet on the other hand not doing anything will irritate players, though I recall seeing someone botting for months and wave after wave he still kept going. So makes me wonder if they are really banning that many or just removing the most obvious ones.

[Driavna]

They don't have a reason for it, though. As much as bots are annoying and even kind of harmful for playerbase, so much they are actually profitable for the company, since it's a P2P game. Every bot is a sold copy of the game, a decent amount of money after every ban wave when accounts-holder buys new copies to continue his botting. So it is... kind of very thin balance, I suppose? Doesn't sound good when you think about it, yes, but it is what it is.

Thing is botters don't legally buy a game copy. Most cases come from a stolen account or stolen credit card information. IMO your typical botter is not that problematic compared to with high-end players that do it, I guessing once the expansion arrives quite a few players are going to bot front lines to level up their classes.

To the OP: As people already told you SE ban on waves your typical gil farmer, "regular" players botting... well, at times they are never banned.

[Zeonx]

If you reported them, they will take note but won't respond. Their action will not be immediate either.

They report to us on the lodestone how many bots they banned each week. Here is the latest report:

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...4ce1b1421efe1a



There are so many of them that you would never notice the above had happened and they most likely don't go to any great legal lengths to stop them making new accounts, but I really wouldn't know.

I don't trust these, used to play ffxi they had same reports but the very same bot users played for years were reported many of times, one day my cousin had a GM watch in FFXI just to bust one of them and it worked he GM'd 5 minutes before the monk gloves NM was about to spawn then about 1 minute GM replied he asked him to stay to watch and sure enough the bot player teleported to the NM claimed it half way across the map and he got him banned.