Lack of action against gathering bots, it needs to be changed, and soon

[Greywolfamakir]

I dont care about money making in ffxiv, i dont enjoy gathering or crafting. I get money just selling Goetias mats, so i dont have a lot of money.

I play just battle content (raid), but i need potions and foods, i have to buy both and being honest, if bots help me to get both cheaper, i have to say thank you bots, because i can buy potions and meals and keep playing this great game.

[KageTokage]

I dont care about money making in ffxiv, i dont enjoy gathering or crafting. I get money just selling Goetias mats, so i dont have a lot of money.

I play just battle content (raid), but i need potions and foods, i have to buy both and being honest, if bots help me to get both cheaper, i have to say thank you bots, because i can buy potions and meals and keep playing this great game.

Or you can pay just a smidge more to support the legit crafters who haven't completely given up on trying to sell things in the presence of bots. That way it's a win-win situation.

Interesting bot side note: I encountered a couple characters in WoW running the same bot program. They'd kill beasts to loot bones and skin them. Giveaways were running into the same obstacle every tome, and making a 90-degree turn at the same point every loop.
After skinning, the bot would mount up, then ride to the next mob, even if it was 10 yards away. The bot also killed packs of mobs at a time.

I found that I could hit one of the beasts he was gathering up, pull it away, then hex it (60 second cc). This kept the bot in combat, so it couldn't mount up. Without mounting, it didn't go anywhere I'd keep him stuck in this mode until the operator came back and usually said ?? a couple times before disappearing.
(I also reported them every time, and they eventually disappeared after a couple weeks)

The thing about WoW is that because they have a functional enforcement team, if you mess with someone's bot it's extremely easy to deflect any harassment claims they might try to file in response to it.

Attempting to do the same in XIV is most likely to just get you punished due to the responsibility of dealing with cheaters being entirely on the STF who never interact with players at all, whereas the GMs are strictly responsible for handling harassment claims.

I've tried messing with them on multiple occasions to see if I could break them but they lamentably have quite a few fail-safes implemented to ensure that they always stay on track. Even if they get nuked by a S rank hunt they'll just respawn and go right back to whatever they were doimg.

[Oxidized]

I dont care about money making in ffxiv, i dont enjoy gathering or crafting. I get money just selling Goetias mats, so i dont have a lot of money.

I play just battle content (raid), but i need potions and foods, i have to buy both and being honest, if bots help me to get both cheaper, i have to say thank you bots, because i can buy potions and meals and keep playing this great game.

Quite a selfish perspective you have (or perhaps just ignorant), which is also why you probably have not tried to befriend any crafters in an attempt to obtain pots and food for cheaper. I supply a few raiders with intermittent bulk orders for both food and pots, and I always charge a much lower price than I otherwise would because I usually make a friend and a loyal customer in the process (and I never advertise, my services must be requested). These people know how I am losing my interest in the game due to DoH/DoL content feeling hollow as a result of this bot epidemic, and I told them to prepare for me to be away from the game until 5.1 at the very least, and likely intermittently from here on out just to do major patches on a much smaller scale.

Please, do tell them how bots are great for the raiding community, I wish you the best of luck.