Please add a way to report people cheating from a quick menu.

[Jojoya]

Whenever I see a bot some other character teleporting around with a name like Hfhckkalsh Njslaisj it is currently quite hard to quickly report each person as it involves submitting a ticket through the report cheating function. Given how often they just appear and disappear and how many of them can be present at any one time it can be quite hard to keep up and report them all.

If we had a method of quickly reporting we could give the team a more accurate picture of how the bots are being used and allow the team to develop ways to combat this activity.

I'm sure the STF team already is aware of those bots and what they're doing without any player assistance. It wouldn't be hard for them to have systems set up to automatically identify and report characters meeting certain criteria typical of bots. All a player report system would do is clog their inboxes with character names. It might give some players a sense of "well at least we're doing what we can to help fight bots" but it wouldn't add anything helpful to the dev team.

They also don't "pick off" bots as they appear for a reason. They study the bot behavior to try to find countermeasures that will hinder the bots without hindering legitimate players. If they banned the bots immediately, they lose out on getting data they need to develop those countermeasures.

I know some players think SE isn't doing anything to try to combat bots but I haven't seen any rivers of bots running through the air recently like we saw at the start of the expansion. Have you? If nothing was being done, they'd still be running through the air.

Speaking about it, I wonder since eternities why SE don't take down the internet-pages that sell Gil for money. TV-shows vanish left and right from the internet when their creators find illegal sources, so why can people's dirty businesses exist for so long--- businesses which obviously do something that goes against the rules a ka contract for playing FFXIV?

SE can't get courts to order the websites and business shut down when they're usually operating in countries where IP rights of foreign business aren't recognized so there's no legal recourse. Even those rare occasions when there is, it's usually a very long expensive fight in the courts before anything happens.

The only way to get those business shut down is for players to stop buying from them and there are too many cheaters for that to ever happen.