Botting should be seperated from other add ons by SE even more

[Dzian]

I understand that no one can take botts out but in a way it feels worse that in FFXIV there seems to be a lot more understanding about someone botting crafting or gathering and many of those players don’t even seem to be scared about losing their accounts or trying to even hide it too much and have heard often that all you need to do is just go in to an apartment and craft there.

It's a question of policing or enforcing the rules. While you technically can't totally eliminate the issue, you can do a hell of a lot to combat / prevent it. The trouble is SE hasn't / doesn't.

For example, If a million players use bots and 10,000 got banned this month. And another 10,000 got caught and banned next month and another 10,000 got caught and banned the month after that. And so on and so on.

You would quickly make massive progress in dealing with the problem. Because suddenly the risk of being caught and banned is very real and the deterrent factor kicks in...

So 6 months later you've banned 60,000 of those million botters. But possibly reduced the amount of botters by 600,000 as more players stop using them because they don't want to be one of next months 10,000 bans.... and if they kept that trend up it wouldn't take long to virtually eliminate the problem.

XIVs problems is they don't enforce the rules and that means the botting problem gets worse because everyone sees a million players using bots and getting away with it. And suddenly that million becomes 2 million. Then 3 4...

It's entirely policing. It's just as possible to hack or cheat or bot in any game you can think of. Yet some games the issue is almost non existent. Other games its prolific and rampant. The only difference is whether or not devs enforce their rules.