Quote Originally Posted by Commander_Justitia View Post
Bots don't exist if you don't talk about them.

They gonna struggle scrambling an AntiCheat System together on ancient code, but that is what they have to do sooner or later. Question is if it is even in the player and companies interest to do it, or if other things are more important. How many will quit playing because they cant make as much profit as they used to?
How many have quit so far, or are waiting for better times, only playing occasionally? A very large percentage of the players are on free accounts atm. After Blizzards disaster some years back I don't think many companies show the number of paying customers anymore, but it's quite easy to see who are playing free accounts or not in FFXIV, since they can't be in an FC, and max out at lvl 60. Personally I have changed my retainers of Field Exploration, logging in every 18 hours to check on them, crafting whatever I've sold, doing the gardening at my mansion and the FC, and logging in every time on of my subs has finished a voyage. For gaming I'm kind of lost. This was THE GAME, I thought, but the bots destroyed it, that and the retainers bringing back stuff crafters used to do, hammering the nail into the coffin. There are no new games coming out anytime soon that interests me, so I twiddle my thumbs and play Banished when I get too bored. I wonder if SE in reality has given up on FFXIV and are putting their resources into FFXVI. It's Naoki Yoshida developing that one too, ands it's PS5 only, hinting once more that they aren't really capable of controlling a game made for PC.