Request: Anti-cheat system for rampant botting.

[Deceptus]

Reddit Thread today on this exact topic. Good reading:

My experience with cheaters and win-traders in Feast S19.

TLDR: Botting is blatant and rampant in this game and it appears that the FFXIV developers are doing very little to actually combat it even when presented with concrete evidence.

There's literally a front page google search if you use the right terms to find people selling scripts. It's that rampant.

They have zero fear of SE coming down hard on them. At that point, if you can't beat them . . .

[Jijifli]

There's literally a front page google search if you use the right terms to find people selling scripts. It's that rampant.

There's a very common one, enough that in game I joke about it being our overlord due to it. Not in the sense that I know they're using it because how would I know which program, but with how brazen and bold it is at putting itself forward.

It's so forward on it I remember I was looking up information for the gathering collectable changes, and half of the first page was either that bot program, or its own forums on how the program does the process because someone shared their code. Again, I looked up a new gathering change, I didn't type "bot" or the name of the program, and it was very forward with its links anyways, which means it's not scared at all of being on Square's radar.