Botting

[Otho]

Maybe SE "owns" the bots? Would that possibly explain why I've seen the same bot in South Shroud farming level 45 bats in the tunnel for well..since September?

[CHunterX]

Maybe SE "owns" the bots?

We have a winner. It's basically free money for SE without the need to implement a cash shop, and you skip past the bad press and negative consequences. Why wouldn't they do this?

[Niqote]

We have a winner. It's basically free money for SE without the need to implement a cash shop, and you skip past the bad press and negative consequences. Why wouldn't they do this?

What?? Hahahahaaaahahah

Why would SE want to ruin their own game's economy and ban their own paying customers?

Besides... If SE wanted to sell their own gil then they would not use 'bots' they can just assign max gil to any account they want.


Oh I do remember a thing they did in XI you know, they said they would purposely let a RMT go on for a little while, but when that account they are watching suddenly has lots of gil transferred to it or... reaches a particular achievement that needed a lot of time THEN they would include it in the ban sweep, because the loss of so much is far more devastating then say, banning 10 new baby bots. It was a long time ago and I forget the exact details... but its worth a thought.

Course, in the end if people stopped buying things from the RMTs then they would of course go out of business. it really does seem that NA servers have a plague of bots - perhaps the NA servers offer more business?

[Tupsi]

What?? Hahahahaaaahahah

Why would SE want to ruin their own game's economy and ban their own paying customers?

Because SE can't ruin what other players already ruined long before botting became common place. Bots aren't the ones constantly undercutting items into oblivion. Also, didn't yoshi say recently to be discrete if you're going to use addons and 3rd party tools? I know he was talking about the parser and FFXIVAPP, but a lot of the bots out there are 3rd party addons to XIVAPP..so...

[Icehunter]

Because SE can't ruin what other players already ruined long before botting became common place. Bots aren't the ones constantly undercutting items into oblivion. Also, didn't yoshi say recently to be discrete if you're going to use addons and 3rd party tools? I know he was talking about the parser and FFXIVAPP, but a lot of the bots out there are 3rd party addons to XIVAPP..so...

Proof Please.

[Zakalwe]

We have a winner. It's basically free money for SE without the need to implement a cash shop, and you skip past the bad press and negative consequences. Why wouldn't they do this?

Well, if we wanted to go into full conspiracy mode here, wouldn't SE make even more money with quick bans so they could keep selling more games and subs as the RMT churn through new accounts? LOL

[DSX]

If they are obvious botters with no way to hide it then it is possible that since they know they will get banned for sure the next ban hammer hits and so they troll SE by creating new chars with the same names as the old ones. It also sends a message to the gill buyers that they are here to stay as it gives the illusion that these chars are safe.

[Sunah]

Maybe SE "owns" the bots? Would that possibly explain why I've seen the same bot in South Shroud farming level 45 bats in the tunnel for well..since September?

Thats exactly what I tell people. They sell their "fake" money for real money as a way to make some extra money without implementing a cash shop because people would cry so much if a cash shop was put in. "WHY DO WE PAY MONTHLY FOR THIS BLAH BLAH". Easy money for them.