SE losing war versus Bots and RMTs

[complexxL9]

So they banned bunch of accounts, but just outside Ulda'h in Central Thanalan, there is like 5-6 bots mining 24/7.
Some are teleporting into mountains, some are running in scripted paths, some are naked - obvious bots.
City states are full of RMT shouts, I did not feel any change after the ban hammer.

Video - http://youtu.be/0oeYAiN5YFo
I seriously think SE won't be able to resolve this by bans only, people will get hacked all the time, so there is no limit to how many accounts botters will have.

They need to implement some system that bans them automatically, or this will never end.

[nasomi]

Because I always get dressed to go out and mine.

There working on it.

If it bans automatically, and bans one person by mistake, there will be an uproar. Quit complaining and play the game. Or wait, did you rush to 50 and are now bored?

[Reiia]

Because I always get dressed to go out and mine.

There working on it.

If it bans automatically, and bans one person by mistake, there will be an uproar. Quit complaining and play the game. Or wait, did you rush to 50 and are now bored?

They already suspended tons of people who aren't RMT or doing anything illegal. So yeah, there is a uproar already.

[KiraJ]

Please try to be over dramatic.................stop, enough.

It's not like SE is unexperienced in handling RMT. Yes they will get rid of them as every publisher get's rid of them after a certain amount of time.
And btw. you should be more worried about the gil buyers, because if not too many players would buy the gil, the sellers wouldn't bother flooding the game.
So maybe we should get rid of gil-buyers eh?

[complexxL9]

Please try to be over dramatic.................stop, enough.

It's not like SE is unexperienced in handling RMT. Yes they will get rid of them as every publisher get's rid of them after a certain amount of time.

Funny you mention that, because I heard XI never got it resolved?

[Zer0]

If a character has a sudden change of (x,y) location of any high enough degree = auto ban

if a character is moving above normal posted speed = auto ban

if a character is shouting more then 3 times per 30 secs = global chat mute

if a character is being blacklisted by more then 10 people an hour = auto flag for GM's

It really doesn't seem that hard to be honest, the hard part is they're trying to be all police like sting operation. Get over it and just start banning people.

[Tupsi]

If a character has a sudden change of (x,y) location of any high enough degree = auto ban
DRG, BLM and MNK have relocation skills that happen as fast as bots do, you'll be autobanning anyone that plays these.

if a character is being blacklisted by more then 10 people an hour = auto flag for GM's
Sometimes you have LS/FC blacklisting competition just because.

It really doesn't seem that hard to be honest

It "doesn't seem hard" yet every company that's been in the business of doing MMOs doesn't seem to do it - why? Because it's not a question of difficulty, it's practicality. They can't just toss things in that will be more of a hindrance than help, I mean even Yoshi stated they went a bit overboard trying to combat RMT before the game went off by making selling stuff to NPCs almost worthless, something you can do perfectly fine in every other MMORPG.

[Jynx]

Funny you mention that, because I heard XI never got it resolved?

No MMO has ever "Resolved" RMT activities just like no police station has ever "Solved" crime.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

They need to implement some system that bans them automatically, or this will never end.

This is in the camp of shi-fi, there's no way an automated banhammer could not ban many legit account

[Kobolt]

stuff

people are gonna cheat, that's the reality. if you ban all the accounts, odds are most of them are going to return. if they have nothing better to do but buy game copies only to get banned a few days later, then let them. it just supports SE more.