I heard the Special Task Force is going to hitt the bots hard now, that the patch has

[Jojoya]

It "seems" the main bot account on my server got banned or suspended 2 days ago. Prices instantly bounced back to healthy levels. \o/. If true then I guess the STF is doing their job afterall.

I hope it's true! Good luck to your local market.

[Prrringles]

I hope it's true! Good luck to your local market.

Nah, false alarm. Mr bot is back after 3 days of absence. I knew it was too good to be true. Thank you for your service, STF.

Edit: Probably just a temp (3 day) suspension..for getting caught..using a bot.. (if it even was a suspension).

[Kes13a]

Nah, false alarm. Mr bot is back after 3 days of absence. I knew it was too good to be true. Thank you for your service, STF.

Edit: Probably just a temp (3 day) suspension..for getting caught..using a bot.. (if it even was a suspension).

best way to check is through Lodestone. If they are banned, they disappear. There is a ring that operates on the Crystal data center and the lead "crafter" disappeared, subsequently because they only removed the head and not the network the new crafter bot had little trouble reactivating under a new name. I was temporarily full of joy when Aether Amazon disappeared. they reappeared unfortunately under a new name, which since they are still active... I wont post, but pretty sure crafters on Crystal know who I am talking about.

[Prrringles]

best way to check is through Lodestone. If they are banned, they disappear. There is a ring that operates on the Crystal data center and the lead "crafter" disappeared, subsequently because they only removed the head and not the network the new crafter bot had little trouble reactivating under a new name. I was temporarily full of joy when Aether Amazon disappeared. they reappeared unfortunately under a new name, which since they are still active... I wont post, but pretty sure crafters on Crystal know who I am talking about.

Didn't know that. Oh well, time to give up anyway. SE did us dirty and nothing will change. They will just deal with it the "Japanese way" -- ignore there is a problem.

[Anhra]

Didn't know that. Oh well, time to give up anyway. SE did us dirty and nothing will change. They will just deal with it the "Japanese way" -- ignore there is a problem.

Amusingly, according to the credits of FFXIV (which are currently arround 3 hours long btw), the Japanese Servers do have a 3 Person Team who's sole purpose is to deal with bots which works to a degree that RMT over there is quite a rarity.

[Shinzan]

Amusingly, according to the credits of FFXIV (which are currently arround 3 hours long btw), the Japanese Servers do have a 3 Person Team who's sole purpose is to deal with bots which works to a degree that RMT over there is quite a rarity.

I'm also in those credits, and I have started fighting them in a little cave somewhat left of Gridania in the original game already in October 2010, in those days it was no problem posting screenshots with names, the original team had more decisive power and the bots were gone after a week ... and did not appear again in the original game!


good luck and have a safe journey!

[Kes13a]

Amusingly, according to the credits of FFXIV (which are currently arround 3 hours long btw), the Japanese Servers do have a 3 Person Team who's sole purpose is to deal with bots which works to a degree that RMT over there is quite a rarity.

As far as everyone seems to be aware.. that Japanese 3 person team is all there seems to be.

which is why myself and not just a few others, think NA and EU have little attention because there is not a dedicated teams for them.

and I dont think there is an argument to be made that 3 people can deal with all the reports... or that there wouldnt be enough work on NA and EU if they hired teams for those regions so they dont have to worry about language or cultural barriers...