PVP Botting

[Whisp]

Same guy has been reported to support center many times a day since August 2013. And nothing has come of it. If support center is not even responding or acknowledging the issue, then what other avenue do people have?

[Thunderz]

BoT tanks, Healers and now DDs and not a single one has been banned yet

Its like 1/3 matches I see the other team with a BoT healer and its basically insta-win or we get a BoT tank and he is completely useless (one got stuck on a wall)

I love how Square is so incapable at dealing with this (obviously black & white scenario)

They can't balance PvP to save their life and now can't even deal with problematic players

once I hit rank 30 i'm done with PvP

[Ryuko]

Just thought I would put in my two cents...

The two offending bots, both scholars from MY server, are still active. Last night, I was paired with each one several times (pickings are slim when you are playing at 4am I guess). During one hilariously sad match, my team was given one bot while the opposing team was given the other one. So, so, so sad. Countless people have reported these people and yet they still get away with it. It's incredibly frustrating, and I truly wonder what the person 'behind' the bot is getting from this. Everyone and anyone on our server who has PvPed even a little will know who they are, and not want to play with them. It's not like getting to rank 30 will help you when you are already infamous for abusing the system and giving a lot of people headaches.

I wonder why they haven't been banned, especially when someone in this thread has said he/she personally spoke with a GM. Is it because the GM has to find the person in the act to do something about it? PvP matches are so short that there is no way you could call a GM into the match in time, and anyone who gets paired up against you and realizes you have a bot on your team isn't going to show you any mercy so you can spend the time reporting the person.

[Dauneth]

So, so far I've seen a few new bots - Tank bots, and a DPS bot. The other healer bots are still there, of course..

I find it hard to believe there isn't a way to just wipe these out, kind of like the 150 people on my banlist. Like, they're obviously very harmful for the game, and they have to be dealt with, and they're ruining the experiences for folks, so you think they'd be priority #1.

[AlrikRouge]

*sigh* I remember the first days of using bots in Final Fantasy on Nintendo and Super Nintendo. Get the game going, get the bit going, come back in a few hours and see how it's moving along.

And then taking over the controller again from your little brother. The good old days of botting.....

But all joking aside, because of my limited time available to play, I haven't done PvP for about a month now, basically shortly after it came out. So I haven't run into bots. It's actually pretty pathetic to use them, since PvP is the ONLY part of the game that is unpredictable, no matter how good you and your team are, due to playing against other real people.

So bots ruining PvP - that sucks big time. I too hope it gets addressed ASAP. Now I don't plan on PvPing until I see an update thread addressing the matter.

[dsingh]

I have not seen the bots lately, can someone confirm from the server?

[Deca]

I have not seen the bots lately, can someone confirm from the server?

I've seen the rabbit related one recently, but not the one north of Wyoming. You may see it less frequently because it is a tank now, not a healer.

[TaneshimaPopura]

Not sure about you guys but in the Japanese Datacenter (Elemental), The bot was gone on the 2nd week.

[Aldehido]

These 2 persons being called upon on the first few posts have been botting basically everything in the game since it came out. They try to back up their claims by saying they're using some macro loops to be able to do everything they're claiming they're not boting.

[Vanguard319]

These 2 persons being called upon on the first few posts have been botting basically everything in the game since it came out. They try to back up their claims by saying they're using some macro loops to be able to do everything they're claiming they're not boting.

Considering that said characters never move, and just spam the same move over and over, they must think we're all retarded if they expect that excuse to be accepted.