Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
They are proactive...just not with any of the bots that actually matter as those gibberish-named teleporting gil farmers seem to get purged on a weekly basis without any player input.

It's about as productive as stomping ants because it doesn't even take 24 hours for them to hit the level cap and start farming away again, whereas purging bots like the mentioned will have more of a lasting effect due to the ShB leveling process taking considerably longer and costing them more money to get accounts going in the first place.
Not to mention, these types of bots are typically ran by players who otherwise actively play the game. We both know the infamous one on Cactuar. If SE actually did something, it would certainly have an impact. Hell, I know people who freely admit to botting/zone hacking and etc. Why don't they care? "Because SE never does anything anyway. You're more likely to get banned for parsing." It really speaks volumes to how poorly they handle player bots, and their lackadaisical approach is why we've seen such a huge increase going back to Stormblood. No one is remotely worried they'll get in trouble because, frankly, they likely won't.