Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[Kes13a]

I wasnt ragging on Prrringles or upset. originally I had thought it was related to some new thing bots were doing. when it turned it wasnt, was just asking it not to be derailed which would lead to it being closed and subsequently deleted.

for some, 55 pages may not seem important, but for any other issue, usually that would indicate some level of issue with how something is being seen or handled by SE (unless its a "show me your X" thread in which case thats understandable)

[Prrringles]

Small update. The "usual" craft/marketboard bots seem to have left Chaos data center. But we got item spammers from Elemental data center in return.. 2 crafters from Atomos server JP spamming items on Chaos worlds EU...with random letter retainer names.. yeah right. Items are restocked endlessly on Moogle at least.. May be all connected.

[Jojoya]

Small update. The "usual" craft/marketboard bots seem to have left Chaos data center. But we got item spammers from Elemental data center in return.. 2 crafters from Atomos server JP spamming items on Chaos worlds EU...with random letter retainer names.. yeah right. Items are restocked endlessly on Moogle at least.. May be all connected.

One of our suspected local bots disappeared and a google search by character name/world showed the Lodestone link now displaying a character on a Chaos world. Maybe one of the rings is shuffling its characters around?

[Prrringles]

One of our suspected local bots disappeared and a google search by character name/world showed the Lodestone link now displaying a character on a Chaos world. Maybe one of the rings is shuffling its characters around?

Can you DM me the name so I can check it out?

[ItMe]

Can you DM me the name so I can check it out?

We can DM people on these forums?
How?

[Prrringles]

We can DM people on these forums?
How?

Nvm apparently we can't. I didn't even notice.

[Archiekins]

Small update. The "usual" craft/marketboard bots seem to have left Chaos data center. But we got item spammers from Elemental data center in return.. 2 crafters from Atomos server JP spamming items on Chaos worlds EU...with random letter retainer names.. yeah right. Items are restocked endlessly on Moogle at least.. May be all connected.

Can confirm, all timed node gathering bots are gone (tho gatherers that spam low level mats are still there.) , doubt it will take them too long to replace though. The crafter ring however, has probably been banned on Chaos, their activity stopped right around the biggest RMT ban wave a little over a week ago (around 10k accounts perma banned), It's highly likely that the bot ring got hit on all DCs and Worlds by it, 7k accounts banned that were involved in RMT or RMT+botting aka gil holders, retainer shuffling dummies, crafters, gatherers etc.

[KageTokage]

Meanwhile, the treasure map bots seem wholly undeterred throughout this supposed ban wave, which I find a touch baffling considering that their activity is even easier to trace then that of the crafting bots; what with them moving about as an abnormally organized collective and constantly being spammed with maps by a single character on a mule account.

[Prrringles]

Meanwhile, the treasure map bots seem wholly undeterred throughout this supposed ban wave, which I find a touch baffling considering that their activity is even easier to trace then that of the crafting bots; what with them moving about as an abnormally organized collective and constantly being spammed with maps by a single character on a mule account.

While I agree this is just as bad, I rather have map bots running around than craft/market board bots. The map bots at least supply cheap-ish materials while players still control the market prices for the crafted items. Anyway, botting = botting and should be eradicated.

EDIT: Same goes for crystal/cluster/dust/ore/plant farm bots by the way. Been a problem since forever. Either SE's detection systems sucks or they don't give a crap. It's one of those 2, nothing else. I mean if we (the players) can already identify 60%+ of all the bots then SE sure as hell can identify them and more. Which brings me to the conclusion they simply don't care enough. Also they ban in waves which lets bots sometimes continue on for months until the next wave hits. But that's what you get if your "anti cheat team" consists of only 3-5 Japanese people. This problem would be less obvious if every region had their own team I guess.

[Kes13a]

While I agree this is just as bad, I rather have map bots running around than craft/market board bots. The map bots at least supply cheap-ish materials while players still control the market prices for the crafted items. Anyway, botting = botting and should be eradicated.

EDIT: Same goes for crystal/cluster/dust/ore/plant farm bots by the way. Been a problem since forever. Either SE's detection systems sucks or they don't give a crap. It's one of those 2, nothing else. I mean if we (the players) can already identify 60%+ of all the bots then SE sure as hell can identify them and more. Which brings me to the conclusion they simply don't care enough. Also they ban in waves which lets bots sometimes continue on for months until the next wave hits. But that's what you get if your "anti cheat team" consists of only 3-5 Japanese people. This problem would be less obvious if every region had their own team I guess.

I think they only have 5 people if they hired 2 more to make them tea. or maybe massage their feet and shoulders to relax them after all the hard work they put in.

I really have no issues with their development team but their anti cheat systems seem to be only designed to promote cheating. many other game makers at least seem to try and stem the tide of cheaters and botters, despite the fact that it may be a never ending battle. SE seems to have just either given up, or has a % of the RMT sales. I have a hard time thinking they are really this incompetent at detection.