Any plans to deal with bots and auto rotations.

[Sylve]

The consequences should be the same as third party software is giving them an advantage over others.

Except its actually a gameplay disadvantage, as you need to control 2 characters simultaneously, not to mention fun times in Vaults last boss with the chains.
There is no inherent advantage to multi-boxing. In games like WoW, yeah, 5 Elemental Shaman comboing a Lava Burst for a 100% crit on a single poor sod is going to ruin that persons day, but ts also nothing that can't also be achieved with communication. But even then, If the multi-boxer is attacked, they have to just stand there and take it because they can't move the characters individually very easily without relinquishing control of the others.

And in a PvE setting, if they're capable of clearing the content and are manually controlling both characters, whats the harm to you or the game in general?
Its not like they can control all 3 Roles at once so they can't even run themselves through a Dungeon while synced.

[BristolRuss]

There is no inherent advantage to multi-boxing. (snip)

And in a PvE setting, if they're capable of clearing the content and are manually controlling both characters, whats the harm to you or the game in general?
Its not like they can control all 3 Roles at once so they can't even run themselves through a Dungeon while synced.

It's a big problem when it comes to gathering though. There was someone on Moogle who used to multi-box with around 8 characters. When someone is getting 8x more mats for the same amount of effort it kind of ruins the economy.

[Vlady]

Not sure why people try to steer the topic away but botting is the issue and not boxing. Botting 24 7 on one account is more disastrous then someone gathering ingredients boxing. Not sure about the rest of the playerbase but if I'm paying for my sub I expect a fair playing field in a game and not with cheaters in an online enviroment. The two black mages were not boxing if you saw how automated they moved around in the same spots. It was the same ordeal as it was in North Thanalan when you had 20 people in a conga line botting up level 50-60 back in June.