Rampant botting and RMT..nothing being done

[Ergumenus]

I got this game on release and took a break for quite a while. Coming back I am being spammed with gold selling messages every 2 minutes. And that's not even the worst part. It seems that botting is just a common thing everyone does in this game. While leveling my new character doing fates the amount of bots I saw was shocking. Just doing it openly and obviously. I joined a Linkshell on the new server I rolled on that was really populated. Yesterday botting came up and dozens of people in it pretty much admitted to botting and said that everyone they know bots because they said SE doesn't care. Since I started playing again I see bots everywhere. Tons of people in the LS online 24/7 grinding fates and stuff with their bots.

This is really really sad. I was excited for Heavensward but I don't think I'll be getting it anymore. This game has zero integrity and honestly just seems like a joke to me now.

[Imoye]

There's a ton of complaints being written every single day about the situation. So they'll have to do something soon. The solutions are many and obvious.

Can't be hard to have a couple of GMs instant banning RMT spam players or to add a simple instant block feature without filling your black list instantly. Probably PS3 limitations are a reason we haven't seen more UI options.

[Canadane]

Report 'em. Hold no remorse.
You may not see anything happen right away, but if anything was said in-game it's pretty hard evidence against them and include that in your report.

[Radacci]

Report 'em. Hold no remorse.
You may not see anything happen right away, but if anything was said in-game it's pretty hard evidence against them and include that in your report.

there was this bot FC on balmung, that was botting in exact same spot for months.
so "You may not see anything happen right away" indeed. I haven't played for a while now, but im sure if i went there now, they're probably still there.
I reported them multiple times, and since they are in a quite populated area, everyone who runs by (which is loads of ppl) see them, and report them. still they are there, for months.
It feels pointless to report ppl, when nothing happens. There might be 1-2 ppl who end up [Deleted] in a month, from your Blacklist, from all the RMTs you block.

[Dualblade]

there was this bot FC on balmung, that was botting in exact same spot for months.
so "You may not see anything happen right away" indeed. I haven't played for a while now, but im sure if i went there now, they're probably still there.
I reported them multiple times, and since they are in a quite populated area, everyone who runs by (which is loads of ppl) see them, and report them. still they are there, for months.
It feels pointless to report ppl, when nothing happens. There might be 1-2 ppl who end up [Deleted] in a month, from your Blacklist, from all the RMTs you block.

Not on the bot you mentioned (who should have been crushed, though for all I know it might just be a recreated bot for that area. Probably not), but players who are banned aren't considered Deleted, thus will still show up normally. If I'm right.

[Radacci]

Not on the bot you mentioned (who should have been crushed, though for all I know it might just be a recreated bot for that area. Probably not), but players who are banned aren't considered Deleted, thus will still show up normally. If I'm right.

I guess. but the fact that it can take half a year for bots to be removed, doesn't really help; it will make the bots more bold, and more and more of them show up. Last i checked there was another bot party, in the place i usually go to do weekly chocobo challenge. They were there for at least a few weeks, until i sort of took a break from the game. It's quite apparent what they are doing, so i don't know why it takes so long.

[Ashkendor]

Seriously, there's 2-3 new threads about this daily... -.-

[BreathlessTao]

Seriously, there's 2-3 new threads about this daily... -.-

That only shows how serious the situation is. Has been, for quite a while. And how whatever SE is doing does not seem to improve the situation at all; while tons of other options are suggested time and time again, seemingly never even considered for implementation. Yes, it's tiresome seeing this same subject in "2-3 new threads daily", but, well, that's where we are in-game as well.

Ok, yes, the botting is still a problem and annoying as all hell. But to say they're doing nothing about it when they banned over 9000 (insert meme here) accounts in a single week is a little disingenuous, isn't it?

But that's just the issue, don't you see? They post these numbers every few weeks, yet the situation does not get any better. Bots everywhere, RMT messages / friend requests just as frequent as last week - and sure, one can't hope for that all to be erased, but we haven't even gotten any better means to battle it, save for the rightclick-blacklist thing ages ago. No settings for receiving /tells, no stricter filters, no any other option that's been suggested a million times by a million of us. In fact, RMTs have gotten bold enough to actually create characters with their site names as character names now. What's that say about all the bans then?

[Ashkendor]

That only shows how serious the situation is.

No, it just shows how many people want to be a special snowflake and have their own thread about it. What's wrong with using existing threads to talk about it instead of cluttering the forums with a ton of different threads? Spamming the forums to complain about spam ingame is pretty meta. xD

Most of us aren't saying that they're doing nothing.

This particular thread has "nothing being done" in the title, so...

[Teryaani]

This particular thread has "nothing being done" in the title, so...

And the OP is wrong to say it like that. Nothing effective is being done.