A Warning to my Fellow Players

[Gath]

2. LICENSE LIMITATIONS

The Game is a carefully controlled environment designed to provide the maximum level of enjoyment for all players. In order to preserve an enjoyable experience for all users, and to protect the intellectual property rights of SQUARE ENIX, the activities identified in this Section 2 (“License Limitations”) are strictly prohibited and violate the conditions or limitations on your license to use the Game. Therefore, any use of the Game in violation of such restrictions exceeds the scope of the License granted to you and constitutes infringement of your license, and is grounds for immediate revocation of your license. Use of the Game in excess of these provisions, or use at all after your license is revoked (including loading the Game into your computer’s RAM), infringes SQUARE ENIX’s copyrights to the Game.
Violating these License Limitations may result in the suspension or permanent banning of your account, or such other lesser measures described in Section 3 which SQUARE ENIX may take in its sole discretion, or an action for copyright infringement or other legal claims, all of which are reserved. You agree that offering or providing banned services to other players of the Game constitutes improper interference with SQUARE ENIX’s contracts with such players, and SQUARE ENIX reserves the right to take formal legal action against you if you do so, without warning.
SQUARE ENIX may update the list of License Limitations at na.finalfantasyxiv.com/support at any time. The current License Limitations are as follows:
2.1 Cheating and Botting. You may not create or use any cheats, bots, automation software, hacks, mods or any other unauthorized software designed to modify the Game and gameplay. In addition, you may not take advantage of game system bugs and exploits during gameplay.
2.2 Real Money Trading, Farming and Power-Leveling. You may not sell, purchase or exchange for real-world money or value any in-game currency, accounts, characters, in-game services, or in-game virtual items. You may not play the Game for the purpose of acquiring virtual items or advancement in game play on behalf of a third-party or for the purpose of selling any virtual assets to a third party for real-world money, specifically including “gold-farming” and power-leveling services.
2.3 Commercial Use. You may not exploit the Game for any commercial purpose (for example, advertising any product or service in-game, or use by the operator of a cyber café) without SQUARE ENIX’s prior written consent.
2.4 Private Servers. You may not create, operate, participate in or use any unauthorized servers intended to emulate the Game.
2.5 Data Mining. You may not intercept, mine or otherwise collect information from the Game using unauthorized third party software.
2.6 Hacking and Circumvention. You may not hack, disassemble, decompile, or otherwise modify the Game or server computer code, whether the Game code is located on a DVD, Blu-rayTM disc, your computer/console or on SQUARE ENIX’s servers, except as expressly permitted by SQUARE ENIX or applicable law.
2.7 Modifying or Creating Derivative Software. You may not modify or cause to be modified any files that are a part of the Game or Service in any way not expressly authorized by SQUARE ENIX, and may not make any derivative works of the Game.
2.8 Commercial Spamming/Spimming. You may not use (or abuse) the in-game chat and message services to distribute advertisements.

Here is Section 2 of the ULA (Use License Agreement), you will notice in the very beginning, it says exploiting and glitching both follow under the same category with hacking, modding, botting, etc.

All this is saying is that you guys should stop because only bad can come out of continuation of the exploit.

This is not a Q.Q thread, but a thread of this community that a lot of people will have to face.

Remember, SE WILL do something about anybody who plays and abuses future and current exploits.

Everybody remembers the Salvage exploit, people making copies of salvage gear, SE banned more than 50,000 account of loyal players without even thinking about the money they could lose. SE may take their time in things, but when they actually do something, they do it hardcore.

Just a fair warning, hoping you fellows will stop, I just want to help.

[TheVedis]

I am 100% against botting, or any kind of exploit, and I see alot of them every day.

All we can do is report them, and hope something is done about it.

And many thanks to every player who actualy follows the rules and understands this.

[Kuai]

maybe they should make the game fun to play first before worrying about botting

[Jennestia]

With these forums it would be easier to report.

[tragic]

so gath trolls many forums?

[Suirieko]

Gonna be interesting to see how people will be reporting the said abuse and botting in this kind of forums!

[elkhorn]

Agreed i believe botters and hackers need to be banned asap to save whats left of this delicate world.

[Karbine]

I think Yoshi P made a comment about the special task force going through some changes or something in an interview recently...could have been Sundi as well but Im sure they are monitoring this stuff.

[Gath]

Yeah, Me and my LS are compiling lists of botters and hackers, sort of a black book, we report them and use their name for future reference on recruitment issues, for not only our shell, but many others. This way we can help make the community as clean as possible for a better game experience.

[TheVedis]

Yeah, Me and my LS are compiling lists of botters and hackers, sort of a black book, we report them and use their name for future reference on recruitment issues, for not only our shell, but many others. This way we can help make the community as clean as possible for a better game experience.

I wish i had friends who cared as much to help me do this. I am running into so many now its not funny on beseid. And some of them are harder to spot cuz they are not always "afk" while using said bots. But when they tend to not notice little things that a normal person would for 5+ minutes, then you just know something is wrong(like getting kicked from behest yet trying to fight until the end like you werent...and dying over and over again and fighting regardless of weakness during such a time, then only asking why you didnt get any SP after behest ended)