RMT and Botting Out of Control

[aray0002]

come on people get a clue. These are allowed in this game for 1 reason and 1 reason only.

They are infact Employees of SE. They make real money by selling you their fake money.

A simple program to detect 3rd party software breech is all they need.

There is no way you can code a bot place it inside a world server and make if function without it being ( FLAGGED ) as security breech.

Look its just a basic code that all the devs have and they create bots to farm items then sell item on the Market to obtain GIL. The gil then gets sold by RMT's.

These RMT's are not beeing banned at all. Matter of fact i have 156 black listed accounts and only 15 have been deleted. These 15 were RMT's not of the SE family.

[Nysneirdre]

I too find it silly how people are so offending by botters/RMT even though they don't affect us in any way really.

Nice trolling statement. If you truly believe that statement, I suggest you do a little more research on the subject. Botting has a serious negative impact on any MMO game's economy. I have seen its effect on many games I have played in the past. It had a rather nasty effect back in Ultima Online with the housing market.

[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.

[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?

[Doki]

It's sad when your MMO is slowly turning into Phantasy Star Universe. Sega got so tired of trying to fight the hackers they literally gave up.

[SummonerSenah]

I feel like blaming Square in this is a bit of victim blaming. The people we should actually be upset with here are those who buy RMT services in the first place. If people weren't too lazy/impatient to do these things themselves, there wouldn't be a market for RMTs to exploit. As it is, other MMOs have the same problem, so the issue with Square is just how they are dealing with it. Hopefully they will find a more efficient way to do it.

[slakyak]

Just a quick note to say whilst the bots don't have a direct effect on my gathering, it is soul-destroying seeing a bot cheat and it kinda makes you feel like a mug for doing it the proper way.

Obviously they'll get banned or nerfed eventually but it can't happen soon enough in my opinion.