Eureka Bots are generating 280m gil a day with platinum pieces

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If you think reporting bots will do anything, I have this nice bridge I'm willing to sell...

I have reported FATE bots on Goblin for months, all from the same FC, doing millions in profit from the Bicolor Gemstone items, I don't even get a GM to send me an automated response anymore, I've tried reporting them from the Lodestone, in-game, by claiming harassment, nothing. Radio silence.

I love this game, but the way SE turns a blind eye to bots is infuriating, to say the least.

You're just one person though. Even if what you said is true and accurate, maybe they require a few reports from different players before they even look at investigating a suspected bot. Or maybe you submitted too many reports recently, or reports that lack info, or the few that were wrongly put under harassment instead of cheating, so they stopped reading them. Who knows.

Every single MMO has a botting problem, and yeah it's frustrating. There is no perfect solution to eliminating them. If SE hires more people for AC, the botters just buy more accounts and the price of gil goes up. If it continues to increase, more people are going to start botting FF14. Ends up costing them more for staff than they are losing from people quitting due to bots. An anticheat does squat if WoW is anything to judge by, as it doesn't take the bot makers long to figure out how to counter. Larger AC team compared to FF14's apparently small one isn't doing WoW and favors either.

I don't see how the humans win against a machine backed by other humans, who are surrounded by cheap labor with this golden opportunity to make wads of cash from botting a game. Maybe a company will develop some anti bot AI soon, a bot buster buster buster if you will, and sell it to the mmos. lol

Is this why some of them still wear ilvl 510 crafted gear that has names on them (thereby not from retainers)?

I guess someone just really likes crafting Exarch gear for them? Sounds like we found the supplier, unless those bots are still the exact same ones, no? From when they did the maps and nothing was done then either?

It would make sense I guess. Those bots were doing something else before they suddenly showed up in Eureka. Most we ever seen in there before that last batch several months back, was the odd group doing anubys in Pagos.