Botters

[Vahzl]

TBH I for one don't particularly like responding to someone when crafting or fishing, that doesn't instantly make me a bot though does it ? lol

That's not enough reason to assume someone is a bot.

It is not your job to catch botters it is SE's they need to add software to detect people using 3rd party applications and then make a list of 3rd party applications which are against the rules.

Even then they have to be careful because banning someone for listening to music in windows media player is not guna win them any favour.

This is my problem too, people are all up in arms when they see one, but why? What difference does it make. You aren't going to change the world by reporting one, as in the case of RMT, one goes down, 2 more take their place in seconds. Best to just be like me and exploit the hell out of the RMT's, such as forcefully undercutting items to force their silly bots to purchase your stuff for stupidly over the top prices.

The smart person doesn't point at it and cry, the smart person takes advantage of it.

[Shinigami]

This is my problem too, people are all up in arms when they see one, but why? What difference does it make. You aren't going to change the world by reporting one, as in the case of RMT, one goes down, 2 more take their place in seconds. Best to just be like me and exploit the hell out of the RMT's, such as forcefully undercutting items to force their silly bots to purchase your stuff for stupidly over the top prices.

The smart person doesn't point at it and cry, the smart person takes advantage of it.

Its not about being smart its about fairplay

[Vahzl]

Its not about being smart its about fairplay

If you ever cheated at Sonic the Hedgehog, or other games, then it really doesn't matter.

[Tiraelina]

I have this opinion that if you don't want to actually play a game you shouldn't be playing it, rather than stupidity like have a program play for you. RMT on the other hand is making a profit from the people that don't want to play the game yet won't go far enough to be botting but are willing to pay others IRL Funbucks that bot to do the grunt work for them.

In XIV's case it doesn't give any help in that area by being heavily bot friendly with more straight grinding than older Korean MMO's.

[Peregrine]

Xiv has been overrun by botters. As if it needs more of a bad name.
Well on the bright side it barely matters at this point.

[Kaisersose]

Botting is a problem. All forms of it. I know there is a lot of different opinions on the matter. I am not really worried about the whole thing, i just want to know one thing.

PLEASE Square-Enix, all i want to know is if YOU know who is botting. just a simple "yes Kaiser, we know" would be the most perfect thing and restore A LOT of faith and hope in the game for me.

[Shinigami]

If you ever cheated at Sonic the Hedgehog, or other games, then it really doesn't matter.

Cheating while youre playing a game alone dosent matter, cheating while youre with others does matter. You can cheat all you want playing solitair, try cheating poker and get caught people will have your skin. Obviously i am talking to a botter

[MHB3000]

Never really understood what bothers people so much about bots. So what? They want to cheat, let them cheat, and let them face the consequences. It doesn't affect you, and remember that RMT are commonly responsible for upholding the economies on the realms.

Wouldn't do it myself as I like the sense of accomplishment, but if others want to, not really any of my business.

The consequences? as far as I know.. there isn't any.. and it is getting out of control.. As a legit player.. it is my business to know that the game will be fair for me as well as everyone.. I am sure that it would be completely different if we were paying to play, but as Kaisersose said.. I would really like some type of recognition that SE knows who cheats.. and some sort of punishment will be done.. I cant imagine this botting shit going down when they release the PS3 version.. all the new players that are actually paying to play will riot

[Vahzl]

Xiv has been overrun by botters. As if it needs more of a bad name.
Well on the bright side it barely matters at this point.

Overrun? I see like 3 in Ul'dah. Overrun would mean you cannot level, claim NM's, craft or even move for them.

You see what you have done here is make a gross exaggeration of something that isn't real.

[Vahzl]

Cheating while youre playing a game alone dosent matter, cheating while youre with others does matter. You can cheat all you want playing solitair, try cheating poker and get caught people will have your skin. Obviously i am talking to a botter

No you aren't, you are talking to someone who has seen this passive aggressive attitude too often. You are bored and have started to want to act like a vigilante, as you have nothing else to do. Trust me, you people are a dime a dozen, and I assure you SE have systems in place to remove these players, the problem being, the only limitation is making a new account, which costs next to nothing, and they probably have hundreds of them just waiting to be levelled en masse.

You are pointing the blame at the wrong source, as it isn't something you can fix just by pulling a big red lever.