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

[ReynTime]

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





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.

So basically you didn't read any of the other threads or posts on the subject but wanted to use the completely useless argument "they do but very few people report".
Got it. Thanks for contributing with absolutely nothing.

[Curisu]

Just went into Pyros to help a friend and do a few bunny fates.
The EU server have again a bunch of bots.
This time without a party and only single WAR with different levels.
So they started to level new ones.

I again lost interest in doing any more bunnys, simply because I dont want to play together with bots.
Lets see if the same bots will stay active until the next big patch again.

My motivation to write another hundrests of useless reports is limited so I will just not do that content again.....
Its sad, I liked doing bunny fates from time to time.

We complained before about it.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ng-out-of-hand

[EnigmaticDodo]

Unless there is proper legal action to sellers and punishment to buyers, wont ever stop. Their special task force is able to ban quite a bit of people, but I imagine they have a ton of accounts in reserve ready to go.

Punishing buyers would force them to rebuy the game and skips more than likely to get back to where they were. Square profits off people being idiots here. Win for them!

Legal action tends to work in examples I've seen of Bungie suing people, take 2, Nintendo, etc.

[SassyAssassin]

Approximately four days ago I went back to hydatos planning to chill by bunny FATE as I do something in another tab when I noticed 2 party of 8 'players' from Faerie all farming moist boxes with uncanny similarities between all of them: they all have 2 combat jobs leveled, one to lv70 and the other to lv90 (the latter presumably to access Endwalker zones), & lv90 FSH. All 16 of them, no exception. Endwalker zone + lv90 FSH? Sounds familiar, yeeeaahh... players..

I nope'd out immediately.

Must be a data center problem then, the bots from Europe haven’t reached Hydatos yet xD

[MichiKyou]

Why not just remove the platnium pieces from the pllace?

[DixieBellOCE]

Unless there is proper legal action to sellers and punishment to buyers, wont ever stop. Their special task force is able to ban quite a bit of people, but I imagine they have a ton of accounts in reserve ready to go.

Punishing buyers would force them to rebuy the game and skips more than likely to get back to where they were. Square profits off people being idiots here. Win for them!

Legal action tends to work in examples I've seen of Bungie suing people, take 2, Nintendo, etc.

Also seen Bungie getting counter sued by hack developers kekw.
Wouldnt use them as a good example :P

[DixieBellOCE]

Must be a data center problem then, the bots from Europe haven’t reached Hydatos yet xD

Mostly they dont, they just sit in Pyros since its the most profitable zone since the south bunny fate is 100% safezone for bots above a certain elemental level. Nothing will agro on them.

[Krokov]

Why not just remove the platnium pieces from the pllace?

Why should the general populace suffer as it were because of the actions of a 'few'? If you removed them then they will just go somewhere else and the whole thing starts over again.

[BluexBird]

Damn. I can't even begin to imagine what I'd buy with 280 million gil.

Or 28 milllion gil.

Or even 2 million gil.

Actually, what do you use gil for again in this game? I forgot. Some players say there's a housing system of some sort, but last time I checked, it was impossible to get one - no matter how much gil you had.

So yeah I... I'll be over there in my corner not really giving a crap about the game's economy. LOL

[Krokov]

Aye The only thing that Gil is really used for in the game is as you said Housing, Teleportation (if you don't have tickets), Repairs (if done at an NPC or otherwise) and any various items you might want to buy from an NPC but that's pretty much it.