Too many bots, too few bans: The Shadowbringers edition.

[Dustytome]

To the staff whom likely wont read this or respond: Would it help if we the community created canned reports in Japanese that describe what the particular glaring bot practices the person we're reporting is exhibiting and then allow people to just fill in the name/location/date? This is getting ridiculous that we can't get region based teams dealing with this. We NEED staff dealing with bots that are fluent in the languages for the regions reporting and have the ability to deal with these issues in real time. Need to study some to upgrade your detection tools? Make a function that allows staff to flag an account so the account's mb listings are not available to anyone but the user, they can no longer purchase mb items and they cannot trade gil so it stops affecting the economy while you're still collecting data.

[KageTokage]

It's not like it's not an issue on the JP side of things, either.

From I've heard it's actually worse on their end as far as things like DoL/H farm bots go as their craft prices are supposedly the lowest out of all the DCs, and the presence of numerous anomalous FCs in their FC rankings that have only a single digit numbers of members on DoL/H classes, yet are somehow keeping up with FCs packing several hundred players certainly suggests as much.

[Nayout]

SE Plz

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._explain_this/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...solo_instance/

[Krojack]

It has always been like this unfortunately, ever since 1.0 in fact. In 2.0 and 3.0, back when Northern Thanalan FATE grinding was a thing, you could see hundreds of bots happily clearing FATEs with impunity. I don't know of any ever being banned for it. I've also heard of Amdapor Keep being inaccessible to players looking to do the ARR relic quest due to the sheer amount of bots clogging up the instance server.

As far as I know, XIV has no automatic anti-cheat for this kind of stuff. It does make me feel like a sucker when I put in the "effort" to do mind-numbing content while someone else just bots away and gets off with no repercussions. I don't believe there is a conspiracy, SE just well and truly does not care. They haven't cared for 9 years and I don't see that changing.

I stopped using the in-game reporting system and started using the website

https://support.na.square-enix.com/c...382&la=1&fty=2 (Very bottom. I choose third-party programs to report high level bots)

I honestly don't think SE does much with the in-game reports. I was reporting the same 2 level 70 gather bots for 7+ months using the in-game system. I would report them about once every 2 weeks give or take. Nothing, nadda, the bots kept gathering 24/7. I then used the website to report them a few weeks before ShB launched and BAM they were gone. Oddly though 1 of them returned about a week ago and I saw him back gathering lvl 70 aether reduction nodes. I reported him again but have not changed if it's still around

I'm already seeing and reporting lvl 80 aetherial reduction gather bots. I don't really expect much to be done about them.

I wouldn't bother reporting the ones you see teleporting around the cities. They are the ones with the keyboard face roll names. Just to many to report.

[KageTokage]

Supposedly, you can actually link the program that you suspect is being used with the "Provide a link" field in the online reports.

I already know which bot the vast majority of populace likely uses considering that I don't even have to try to search for it for it turn up in search results...

I feel like SE could probably sue them and/or issue a cease and desist on the basis that it's sub-based and thus profiting off of their product. "Could" being the key word.

[Dagget]

I had been wondering, while on the 2 new EU servers, why I could walk into some areas and get a rush of 'background chatter' normally created by the game when there are a lot of players close by but see only 3-5 players around. Figured out it is triggering due to stacks of leveling bots hidden nearby. I've spotted some of them (liker under the Airship dock in Gridania where stacks of lvl 50 conjurors seem to be running strings of missions) but others still elude, perhaps are wholly underground (example: in conjurors guild).

[KageTokage]

There's usually a mass of gil farming bots hiding in the wall behind the FC chest at each Grand Company HQ, as that's where they wait after they go into farm mode and start spamming runs of Amdapor Keep for gil after they've finished the MSQ.

Those guys are just an afterthought to me as they don't exist on Cactuar currently due to the character creation being locked, though.

[Fellgon]

Today i watched a youtuber explaining to followers how download a third party program, an EXE, to translate text game to portugueses. the software its called tataru helper, a software inside ff14. the program not only trasnlate but also change fonts size. Is it ilegal??


heres the link of his video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s70qe9JusyM

[Doljax]

Today i watched a youtuber explaining to followers how download a third party program, an EXE, to translate text game to portugueses. the software its called tataru helper, a software inside ff14. the program not only trasnlate but also change fonts size. Is it ilegal??


heres the link of his video <removed>

It probably falls into the realm of other such modifications: bannable, but SE turns a blind eye so long as you don't talk about it ingame.

[RareItems]

Willing to bet People selling Raid clears thru discord is making more money than any of the keyboard mashed named bots lol/aethersand bots combined xD.