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

[ToffeeCoffee]

@CM's - more open world bot reports in this thread:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...in-Urth-s-Gift

When are you going to take action? Allowing cheating in this game is pretty poor service considering we all pay sub every month. I've played free to play games that have less tolerance for cheating than this one. I am astounded that I have reported a bunch of bots daily for 2 months straight, given all the information needed and GSU just ignores it all completely. Pathetic.

[HEC-]

Have you tried reporting the bots / cheaters via Lodestone (as per my previous post in this thread)?

[Titor]

I reported some a while back.
I went through all venues except for calling them personally. Reported in-game, reported two places on the website, had friends, guildies, random passer-bys report, and they are still unbanned to this day (Though they moved around the world since this report, still saw the same bots spiritbonding in this manner)
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...are-about-bots

It is really ridiculous what some of the people post to defend these very obvious bots, such as just calling them anti-social or whatever. If someone marathons the same spot for literally months without moving, talking, or resurrecting when they die, not unlocking their job, and can take killing millions of karakuls, these people would need help and SE should intervene for their health at that point :L

[ToffeeCoffee]

Have you tried reporting the bots / cheaters via Lodestone (as per my previous post in this thread)?

This is exactly what I did daily for over 2 months and absolutely no effort on SE's part to take action.
GM's told me there are issues with bot reports not being actioned properly and to air my grievances here on the forums for the Community Manager's to pick up, alert the developers to the issue, and then action would hopefully be taken from there.

This is all on the proviso that my thread gets enough interest from the community itself to make it clear that we don't want cheating (use of 3rd party tools) allowed in FFXIV.
Very poor form that we have to motivate SE to keep the game clean and they don't actively take care of it themselves. I'd hate to think how rampant cheating is in this game, a friend of mine actually thinks a lot of players are doing it because you can easily get away with it.

Sorry to say but don't waste your time reporting them anymore, it's futile.

[JTribal]

Totally off topic but anyone know what the name of the staff in that picture is????

[Brine_Gildchaff]

Totally off topic but anyone know what the name of the staff in that picture is????

That'd be a Tane Mahuta. Alchemists make 'em. Rosewood branch, spoken blood, ochu vine, and growth formula gamma.

[Gilthas]

I used to report the bots farming wind crystals/shards at the gathering points in the Central Shroud near the zone to the South Shroud every day for weeks until I finally gave up. 1 year later and they're still there with a couple of new friends. I only see SE eventually banning the bots that teleport between node and hide underground.

Bots on Phoenix weren't that bad for a while, but recently their prevalence has shot up. I went to farm Snurble tufts the other day and they had botting parties at almost every single Golden Fleece spawn point.

All the locations with easy enemies to spiritbond/chocolevel are now constantly occupied by a bot. This is preventing actual real players from using these spots to farm/spiritbond.

[Ravno]

It is really ridiculous what some of the people post to defend these very obvious bots, such as just calling them anti-social or whatever. If someone marathons the same spot for literally months without moving, talking, or resurrecting when they die, not unlocking their job, and can take killing millions of karakuls, these people would need help and SE should intervene for their health at that point :L

Sure, that's obvious boting, but unlike you, some people don't know how to spot a bot.
For exemple, i multibox with 8 chars, from time to time when i need materia, i put all my chars in the same and spam a /tenemy /cast spell macro, while watching a windowed movie. I always watch my screens and reply to wisps but usually people usually rage before even try to interact.
So i'm sure in a lot of case, people rage about bots when it's actually legit.

[Brine_Gildchaff]

So i'm sure in a lot of case, people rage about bots when it's actually legit.

A lot of the cases being discussed here are things like a character that is running around mining or taking other actions while the Away status is clearly displayed (this is impossible unless you are using an exploit or are a bot) or the now rather infamous "underground bots" where the bot has glitched themselves under the surface of the ground so they cannot be targeted by players but are still moving around and attacking mobs. Someone in my FC found one the other day. While I agree it's not always clear-cut (Urth mass spiritbonders can look pretty bot/zombie-like sometimes), we're talking about blatantly obvious bots that are being left unsanctioned despite months of daily reports.

[Gilthas]

The two bots that I mentioned farming nodes in the Central Shroud are ridiculously obvious to anyone that spends time observing them. No human player can run the exact same circuits every time. Sometimes they even become completely synched.

Hell, in the beginning they used to jump to try and disguise themselves and would jump at the exact same spot of their circuit every time. Nowadays they just don't bother with that since SE obviously refuses to ban them.