Bot problem!

[momomann]

using the report function of the game is useless!!! have done it a few times in the last weeks, noone cares. my mates did the same, noone cares. told even the FC leader about the botters of his own FC but he seems to doesnt care about it. fc donations of over 10 million gil for the housing, i know where that come from^^

are officials looking into this forum btw?

[Yurikitty]

Bots are like the corruption in governments. Everyone sees it, people get pissed about it, they report it but since the people at the top A) dont care or B) are working with said bots, nothing will ever change. Welcome to how SE handles RMT. Please look forward to seeing those same bots for many a year to come!

[Jirnelle]

If they are combat bots I just open a trade with them until they die .. makes me smile

[Seraph]

If they are combat bots I just open a trade with them until they die .. makes me smile

Unfortunately they know that setting yourself to busy status blocks all trade requests

[Taris9047]

So that means i can bot in FF14 and it has no consequences! gg

If you leave FFXIV ARR before the banhammer to he unleashed by SE. Botter accounts will be blocked someday but not near future.

[Cegiana]

If they are combat bots I just open a trade with them until they die .. makes me smile

Two things, first off reporting them is just a waste of your time, I've reported people, come back HOURS later they are still there, come back a few days later, they are still there, killing Apkallu's south of Costa Del Sol near where Cancer pops. So I give up on reporting, if SE allows them to cheat, then they have nobody to blame for the bad ingame economy except themselves.

Secondly, Jirnelle, I freakin' LOVE YOU. I had no idea about trading with them to make them die, I am so gonna try that. If the aren't botters, then they won't die and I will apologize to them for bugging them with my trade, but we all know they are botters and derserve the ingame death that I will soon leash upon them. Thanks again Jirnelle.

[Nysneirdre]

I just did a quick check for Ice Shards for sell on Exodus. One retainer is selling 18k of them at 7 gil a piece. Next retainer on the list is selling 10k of them for the same price. That is just two people, it doesn't include the others selling them at the same price. You don't have to go far to find who has the bots, yet there they stay with nothing done about them. Its blatantly obvious SE doesn't give a crap about doing anything about them. They only go after the RMT chat spammers and sellers when they find them and they only did that after the huge uproar from the community during the first month.

I remember when I first played Aion when it was released. They had a huge bot and RMT problem but coming from the Asian culture, they didn't go after it right away. Well it pretty much chased off most of the subs after the game hit its 3 month mark including myself. I was half scared the same thing would happen to this game. It just drives me nuts how the cheaters are ruining the in game market. Its bad enough as it is will the derp undercutters but the botters dumping their stuff on the market sure doesn't help.

[Taris9047]

O well the bottom line is, they sell RMT because of profit!!

There are a few private botters running grind but they don't operate professionally. So, their impact on game economy isn't so critical but a few annoyances like those chicken gaming undercutters. However, those professional RMT sellers never operate without profit and they actually ruins the economy to end up hyper-inflation just like that African country.

Aaaaand, companies cannot wield banhammers freely due to shareholders... Usually those RMT operate like a giant factory shop. Just like:
http://pds21.egloos.com/pds/201204/0...12bd7259fc.jpg

If these many accounts disappear in one day and never come back due to profit reason? It's not good for shareholder's view(Of course, normal players finally met the Justice.) Each of these factory(?) machines running subscription fee and already paid package price(if it's NA price model. Korean MMOs usually only charge subscription fee.) Of course, we can account a few hacked accounts but I guess hacking incident is not so frequent in NA(hopefully, less than Korea, where the shot came from) and takes more effort than opening a new account for such factory(?) owners.

./sigh

[Nukocafe]

I saw an underground bot and reported them but saw them there a week later.
I know SE tends to ban in "masses" but its too long and by then the market is ruined.
At this point things that are gathered through low level botany are worthless so I just get them to use myself and never sell them to anyone.

Overall with 2.1 there's even less meaning to craft now that you can get DL gear so easily. Only useful craft now is Culinary but due to over-saturation of the market, once again I only craft to make use for myself and my FC.

[Diadumenos]

Well I try to do my part and at least make a report. Did so yesterday(along with a few other Ragnarokians) in West Than. We watched a couple bots warp around for hours.