Botting

[waca]

Not all bots belong to RMT, some belongs to greedy players who are lazy to work hard to get those gils.
Just saying.

[Xayoc]

Until I see an entire zone owned entirely by Bots (eg FFXI), this one is not gonna gripe too much about it. If they do exist SE is doing a pretty fair job about keeping them under wraps.

[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.

[LalaRu]

I still are convinced that one of the best actions against RMT is make the trial accounts only in dedicated servers. If a legit user switch to paid service, he can create characters in all other worlds then. About the time spent in trial server, it is no more or less, as playing in open betas with character wipe at the end. If he gets friends and so on, just they can arrange to meet in a given world when they go paid service.

[BunnyChain]

In case of shards farmers, don't buy the 1k or 2k packages that appear 10fold on the MB. But the problem is, the ones who visit the forums and threads like these probably wouldn't anyway. How would you convince the general playerbase to pay more for stuff like this?
I also am not sure if there's any point to filling out those report, or if I'm just wasting my time there.
It would be nice to have them filled out already. Click on name, report, it should put all the information under appropriate sections.

[wicked-one]

I reported and blacklisted by now about 50 RMTs and Bots.

The <deleted Character> shows up very rarely in my Blacklist....

[Lucke]

I reported and blacklisted by now about 50 RMTs and Bots.

The <deleted Character> shows up very rarely in my Blacklist....

99% of the player base doesn't seem to understand what this means. <deleted> only means they deleted the characters themselves. If SE deletes or bans them, whatever, it still shows their name.

[Nysneirdre]

I used to report every single bot I found but after the weeks rolled by and the same ones were still out there, I gave up. It had become apparent to me nothing was getting done about it. The markets are still flooded with goods sold by bots and people keep buying their stuff. Nothing can be done about it. So I pretty much stop gathering raw mats and selling them. I'm getting burned out and I'm logging in less. I think the time is coming to close the account. I honestly don't think they will ever go after the bots. I have been tracking a bot guild on my server for months and their number has actually grown.

[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?

[LalaRu]

I blame more the people who gives money to the RMT, than RMT themselves.