RMT and Botting Out of Control

[DeadRiser]

Should I feel bad for never seeing a bot like... Ever? Also, how does someone botting botany have anything to do with you anyway? Just report them and move on.

It's not as if you can't gather from the locations because they disappear due to them gathering from there.

I have a couple of reasons.

They take up space where no one is actually playing.
They are soulbinding gear, which they sell the material and make money before people that actually play. Money goes to them, they sell the money to people.
They are gathering items, which they sell all of it and undercut everyone. This not only reduces the price for people that actually farm themselves, but they also make money and sell it to people.
They are also a nuisance. People that are actually playing the game sometimes can't actually farm stuff because a bot is in that same spot for hours on end.
Square Enix needs to stop waiting till the next patch to do things about these guys.

[Coolname]

Is it not possible to ban the buyers of gil? Is there not a way to detect a players bankroll suddenly increasing 10fold without any sales on the market?

[Ksenia]

Can't wait for the PvP to come.

When mod's, hacks and cheats are turning that in to a shit show, it will be clear where the game really stands.

[TetsuyaHikari]

Can't wait for the PvP to come.

When mod's, hacks and cheats are turning that in to a shit show, it will be clear where the game really stands.

You do realize that PvP in games is generally just a broken excuse of a mechanic anyway, right...? Well, I've never played an MMO that had fair PvP in it anyway. The only thing we're going to find out when PvP comes out is what job(s) is OP and you'll see parties mostly with that setup going for quick and easy wins.

[JustinianKaiser]

You do realize that PvP in games is generally just a broken excuse of a mechanic anyway, right...? Well, I've never played an MMO that had fair PvP in it anyway. The only thing we're going to find out when PvP comes out is what job(s) is OP and you'll see parties mostly with that setup going for quick and easy wins.

Uninstall.

[Accolades]

Can't wait for the PvP to come.

When mod's, hacks and cheats are turning that in to a shit show, it will be clear where the game really stands.

FF games are never known for pvp your wasting your time here if that's what you want.

[AnimaAnimus]

The bots doing gathering are a major pain and SE doesn't seem to do anything about them, even though they claim they do. The bots never change and will run for weeks even with multiple reports.

The real pita is the dungeon bots and with FATES being a horribly boring way to lvl the dungeon bots always screw up a run and waste your time

[DSN]

It sucks for leveling a chocobo at 50 as there are about 6 spots in the world to do this efficently and all are overrun with bots soul binding gear and selling materia. Example there are like 12 water spirits @ level 50 in the entire world all in one spot and they get pulled and aoe'd down in seconds while a crafter sits there pumping out gear while they all covert it to materia III and IV over and over.

It sucks when you try to click on a node and there are 15 bots sitting on it I have to navigate around. Gathering is slow and tedious as it is adding anything extra to it exasperates the tedium.

It sucks for farming materials as all the monsters you need materials from are botted for RMT purposes.

It sucks when you run a dungeon and a bot warps to a chest and leaves group, it sucks to play with someone who starts off with "One sec settting up my healing bot"

It sucks when legitimate players are mistakenly punished for buying items off the Market Board that came from RMT players.

It sucks when all of these people have been reported and still exists and the problem is getting worse every day to the point where there was a large group of RMT botting and SE does nothing about it. They have all been reported by multiple people (more or less anyone who passed through Bentbranch Meadows). They were right outside town on the level 15 botany nodes and all named such as asdfaslhj asdfasdfhjk, they were not underground they were all running around on top of each other clear as day right outside town.

[Nysneirdre]

Ad hominem attacks and dismissing the problem isn't helping anyone. The gathering bots are real and do hurt the games economy with flooding the market with goods. I find them every time I go out to harvest. If you aren't seeing them the perhaps you are lucky or don't know how to recognize them when in fact are gathering near you.

[Tagihi]

It is now really mean time to develop any AntiBot system to be completely honest they have now reached the teleport to speedhack extreme botanist gathering or mining, it is quite impossible to make a screenshot of them are completely invisible the only thing you can see is when them level up