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

[Ulthimar]

Frustrations with bots and RMT is understandable, but every MMO i have played in the last 18 years has had these problems and from my experience the only way it goes away is when the game population dies off and they have no reason to be here.

I may be wrong, but has there been any MMO where they have successfully stopped botting and RMT while the game still had a very active population?

[Symbiant]

They are not "trying" nearly hard enough. I've seen the exact same bots every single day for a month now, the types of bots that are basically holding up a giant sign saying "I'm a bot!". These are the cases that need urgent attention, and the ones that SE seems to be completely ignoring. I don't care how many accounts they've banned in the past. 3704 out of the total number of bots running around on all servers is a complete joke.

I assume you did not read my post or you would have seen the infatuation part or maybe the part about killing the Syndicate over the peddler? They are going to eliminate what they think is the biggest threat. Not what a very small number of people are complaining about on the forum. If your lucky you might have 100 different people complaining about bots on this forum. 100 out of several million is small in comparison to the other people who really don't care about some random farm bot. They are trying to enjoy the game.

If you really think about it, they just banned more people then you have people complaining. So what makes you think that they would listen to a diminutive sect?

They are going to favor the preponderant view

[Symbiant]

Great thread. I have had similar frustrations. I even made a post about it (long ago) here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-I-Have-It-%29. Shortly after I added a video of the bots on that forum post, they actually did indeed finally get banned. Get video evidence, post it here. It gets attention, and is good proof.

Did they get banned or did they just find a more copious and lucrative avenue? Maybe even a server transfer.

[NoF2P]

some random farm bot.

If it was a rare occurrence I would be less concerned, but I see them everywhere now. I would like to know whether SE seriously intends to do anything about it, so I know whether it is worth reporting or not. I don't know whether I am one of a diminutive few or not, but I don't want to play against bots, and if SE wants to know how to improve the game experience then it should listen to it's paying customers (a golden rule in any business). At least respond; anything is better than nothing. I was planning to stay with this game a long time and not race to the endgame, but maybe I should before it goes downhill.

[Applesnap]

I think its obvious that they are trying and just because they do not get the one that you are infatuated with does not mean that they are not trying. I would assume they are going for the bigger players on not some peddling mining bot.

What you should do is let them do there jobs as they see fit.

Problem is, they're not doing their job. Same RMT left in place for months to generate gil unchecked? Nope, wouldn't call that a "successful operation". Also, the ones myself and ToffeeCoffee post about are the big materia-makers. They produce a massive amount for the market, and in turn, revenue for the gil-selling companies. So next time you see someone with x12 Savage Might IVs for sale in one go (550k each on Balmung), thank SE's Task Force for doing their job to an excellent standard. Or not.

[DeadRiser]

On Sargatanas, there is a full party of bots that have been spiritbonding/farming in the North Shroud. Right where the plasmoids spawn outside of Fallgourd Float.



THEYVE BEEN ACTIVE FOR MONTHS. ALL DAY, EVERY DAY.

[Hitomi-Giniro]

So yeah I was mining some gold ore and I found this...


There's like 3-4 bots under that main guy, now I'm no game developer or GM but something tells me thats hacking.

[lackofwords]

The blackmages bots are taking over Eorzea by storm.

[Snugglebutt]

This is just a tiny fraction of black mage bots and archer bots I seen this evening, I have counted maybe over 100 or more in the last 30 minutes either at that NPC or most in Uldah aetheryte plaza (probably even more if I went to the other major cities). I sent three tickets to GMs and nothing seems to being done about it. By the looks of it all the RMT bots log in before a maintenance or patch and drop off their botted goods etc before maintenance or patch happens and by looks of it some seem to drop it off in private rooms at the inns as I followed quite few there.





That is just a TINY FRACTION of the amount of bots I seen tonight. I have screenshots where ones in images above have been replaced by other bots spawning and the actual amount is well in excess of a hundred now.

Now that they have dropped off their botted goods and RMT gil amounts etc or still dropping them off whether to private room or to seller characters...the RMT messages have started while at the same time all the bots I reported are still there dropping off more goods and gil. SE appears to be doing nothing to tackle this at all.

[Snugglebutt]

Is this really what Squeenix want FFXIV to be known for? Botters paradise where if you do not play the game and just run bot programs 24/7 you will be treated as first class while fair playing paying subscribers are treated as second class...like crap on the bottom of Squeenix's shoes, to be trampled on in favor of attracting more of the botting masses. It seems as though if you bot nothing will happen to you but if anyone ever reports you botting the person reporting will either get ignored or banned. Whoever is in this probably fictional task force which are meant to handle bot reports, they all need to be fired and replaced by people who not only care but are actually competent in their jobs. Quite frankly I am utterly disgusted by SE's lack of care and lack of action taken against botters plus lack of response in a 35 page page thread filled with evidence that they are not taking action at all.