Attention devs: Game Surveillance Unit re: open world Bots.

[ToffeeCoffee]

Same bots, new day [09/11/14]. Coordinates are in the screenshots.

Botting Earth Sprites in Western Thanalan




Botting Wind Sprites in Lower La Noscea





Also here's one of Tonberry's resident mining bots for good measure, also in Nophica's Wells - Western Thanalan.



None have been banned, when will you start banning these bots SE? CM's could you please respond to this thread with some direction on this major issue in FFXIV ARR.

[ToffeeCoffee]

Same bots, new day [09/11/14]. Coordinates are in the screenshots.

Botting Earth Sprites in Western Thanalan




Botting Wind Sprites in Lower La Noscea





Also here's one of Tonberry's resident mining bots for good measure, also in Nophica's Wells - Western Thanalan.



None have been banned, when will you start banning these bots SE? CM's could you please respond to this thread with some direction on this major issue in FFXIV ARR.

These same bots are currently in these locations botting. Square Enix still has not banned them for breaching the user agreement for many many months, who knows maybe they're going on 1 year now?

[ToffeeCoffee]

Same bots, new day [09/11/14]. Coordinates are in the screenshots.

Botting Earth Sprites in Western Thanalan




Botting Wind Sprites in Lower La Noscea




None have been banned, when will you start banning these bots SE? CM's could you please respond to this thread with some direction on this major issue in FFXIV ARR.

Bots have been moved back to these locations..still botting all day every day. Not banned, why not?

[TornadoFury]

had a bot spiritbonding in north thanlan for about 4months me and my friend have prob reported him about 40 times have killed him about 10-20 times... bots pay a sub to i guess.

[SilentSymphony]

While trying to rally some players earlier today i came upon someone who sells runs for a living and while i have no problems with that, even admire the concept, the conversation led to a point where this player was supporting the botters and rmt, And that is just too much when players are supporting something that is hurting so many other people who spend their precious time gathering, crafting, and making gil to get the things we want, If SE doesn't take major action before Ishguard they probably never will, I can only hope they do because I'm so excited for the expansion i dont want to see bots in all the new area's farming, perhaps flying will destroy the bots but i doubt it!

I will say that selling runs does nothing for our economy, it just changes where the gil is being stored, with almost no houses available for purchase, and very little for those types of players to spend their gil on, its contributing to the already present problem.

[ToffeeCoffee]

What's irritating is when you catch actual players botting, players who are farming T9 and Shiva or working on Nexus. It's definitely not just RMT bots out there.
Recently I've had to approach at least 4 FC leaders to report their members for cheating.
Dragged one around yesterday to witness one of their friends who was FATE botting with AFK status on.
Another 2 for bot mining in East Shroud. One was an actual RMT/spiritbond bot who was blindly invited to an FC and accepted.
I shouldn't have to do this - reporting them to SE should be sufficient to have them banned. Alas..

[KEV1N]

There's a couple in Coerthas on Ragnarok farming fleece/spiritbonding. Reported them about a month ago but they're still at it.

[SilentSymphony]

While SBing today i noticed a known bot running so fast it came into max render range and out of max render range so fast i barely noticed it.

Then I went to sell some materia just now to see several stacks of 99 materia for quite a few different tiers of materia, and i know its the SB bots because they are selling for the lowest price across the board, and its not just one stack its several.

Cmon SE do something, because you haven't taken care of a single one that i have seen.

[AutumnLeaves]

I reported a couple of bot's earlier today on my server and a couple of hours later they had been removed, could have been they just logged off but it's wishful thinking.

[Ignnis]

Had a very weird experience indeed, think I got a join in progress in a dungeon with someone multi boxing 3 characters.

Low level roulette, got a join in progress after waiting around an hour (yeah DPS queue times!) and at first I noticed that everyone was silent and the tank had a really weird name, I won't say it but it was a famous FF characters name with the number of the series as the last name and lots and lots of symbols in it. The healer and dps also had names of famous characters but not strictly from FF w/ symbols.

I figured this was a bit suspicious but thought it could be a very strange coincidence or a bunch of friends playing together and having a laugh while naming characters. But, suspicions confirmed when I saw them move. Dps never moved and the healer and tank followed each other like they were chained at the ankle. The healer on used medica and continually spammed it and the tank (in mage gear and lvl 1 accessories OH YEAY!) on used flash once then auto attacked, didn't try to do anything when the healer or me pulled agro, never moved out aoes, never tried to do anything when the healer died. Dps never moved an inch the whole time I was there, I left after that one pull.

Reporting this now, have a screenshot etc of names. I know this is for 'open world' but still :/

EDIT: Just noticed while looking at some of the screen shots, the tank was wearing the same blue half robe a few of the bots in the screenshots were wearing. Do bots have their own uniform now?