I'm tired of hearing about bots

[Karbine]

Bots are a problem and many players blantently say in game they are using one. Youre going to keep seeing people complain until XIV has actions taken to show they care.

[Kurai]

tbh i dont care about bot's they dont bother me or get in my way. i am sick of all the broke players moaning that some players have tons of gil and that there is to much gil in the game, maybe you should have lvled faster? i got lucky in respects that i was in one of the first LS's to do FNM's on our server and made a shit ton of gil from selling bucc and templar stuff, not everyone with loads of gil cheated to get it

as for RMT parties, c'mon if you need to buy gil in this game you have issues, its easy to make.

[SniperRifle]

Lol this is just like when I bash trolls and then people swoop in to defend trolls and attack me. Like wtf? Haha.

[Vackashken]

Lol this is just like when I bash trolls and then people swoop in to defend trolls and attack me. Like wtf? Haha.

Seriously, this was definitely a "wtf?" moment.

[Sev]

Would be interesting to see what Yoshi has to say on this subject after his 'It's ok to cheat stance' regarding power levelling...

[Vackashken]

Would be interesting to see what Yoshi has to say on this subject after his 'It's ok to cheat stance' regarding power levelling...

Sadly thats good - yet demoralizing - point.

[Rinsui]

No, but is it wrong? No, its a gamer's choice on how they wish to play a game.

Hello-o? Did your brain wake up already today?
This is not some off-line single-player puzzle game.
All players in a MMO are connected, so what the one does always
directly or indirectly affects the other.

[KaedrianLiang]

Depends on how botters use their cheated ranks, if they keep to themselves and rarely spend gil the impact as an individual botter is almost no consequence given the huge amount of obtainable gil straight from the environment. However take 100-200 bots that is a significant impact.

In the case of a fish bot, where they are most likely mass producing crystals to their ends. If they straight up sell every crystal they make because they dont craft, that has a huge impact on how much gil exchanges between players, this is making the most of being a cheater.

On the other hand a fish bot that keeps all their fish and crystals to use for their own crafting. Has a reduced impact on the way ffxiv exchanges work. However having an abundant source of crystals allows them to craft with one less supply restriction, allowing for more ranks faster. When there are more high ranked crafters, prices of goods generally go down. However we only see price drops on highly sought after items such as "final pieces" while rank 10-39 gear prices is higher than ever before (this is the problem with itemization with almost no level restrictions which is a whole different topic).

One could say the only way the relationship between crafters and combat classes is favorable because of botters. While it is depressing on an individual level, on the grand scale, "final piece" goods are only this cheap and in huge supply because of the effort of crafting bots and fish bots.

However bots are bad and must be purified with Ifrit's flame.

[Xmbei]

Someone said something about bots... so I am putting this right here !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnzlb...&feature=share
Next they will be farming us!

[Kirith]

There's really no two ways about it. If you ever used a bot you are a cheater and deserve to be banned, regardless of your reasons (rules of the game). If i cheat at poker but make sure i don't win too much it doesn't mean it's okay to cheat, it just means i'm good at cheating.