Okay now the botting is getting a little out of hand...

[AmiRose]

I've been gone for a while and it seems worse than ever, that's insane. x.x

[Saintly]

[SamSmoot]

That is crazy.


However, you wouldn't see this if people didn't buy Gil. And this will never change unless the buyers are banned, don't bother wasting time on the bots, they can never be stopped, obviously.

Perhaps they have to go after the buyers? Any time a player comes into a large amount of gil, or an expensive item to sell that he didn't pay for, ban that player permanently.
Alternative: Find the gil sellers and exterminate them all. (may be illegal though.)

[Tilvalia]

All games have bots. It's just a fact of the matter and something you will have to live with.

[AnimaAnimus]

So basically it is returning to the way it was in Version 1. The bots back before ARR were amazingly abundant and horrible and they did nothing about it then either. They just thought they would be clever and delete 90% of everyones gold while sequestering them to legacy servers with a bunch of other people who would still have millions after the slash. FFXI had their fair share as well.

I have folders full of screenshots of dozens of bots standing around various aetherytes and in different areas of the field. Doing leves and farming anything that dropped anything of value back before ARR. SE simply does not care enough about bots to put the investment needed in countering them, they never have, they never will. It's just up to us to not use their services and discourage the use of their services in others.

[Johaandr]

and i thought Spriggan was bad. but nop xD but i did spot plenty of them near the aetheryte

[KageTokage]

There has been a definite increase in the number of bots RMT and otherwise even in the month or so leading up to ShB.

They also seem to be trying new methods aside from the usual "farming Amdapor Keep for gil drops", since I've noticed mobs of poorly geared level 50 THMs solo queueing for the Wanderer's Palace at intervals of every minute or two in player search and bots farming aldgoats and toads in Eastern/Western Thanalan respectively; both types on multiple servers across Aether.

All games have bots. It's just a fact of the matter and something you will have to live with.

While true it doesn't change the fact that it's unacceptably bad in XIV for the fact it's a paid MMO.

This level of botting is more akin to what you'd in see in a low budget F2P MMO that have the excuse of being understaffed.

[Nemmar]

Bots come with popularity or not.

The problem is the back end tech and it's finally become too obvious how exploitable it is.

I logged in to a similar picture from yours in my server.

[Emerald_Swords]

I'm generally surprised no interviewer has covered this towards the launch of Shadowbringers.

[KageTokage]

I'm generally surprised no interviewer has covered this towards the launch of Shadowbringers.

I honestly think bad press is one of the few things that can actually get them act on something the player base considers an issue.

People weren't just making a stink about the housing on the forums but it was being brought up in articles on fairly prominent media websites, too.