Bot Army FC's?

[Kosmos992k]

Oh, they'll ban them eventually. They just don't auto-ban any account until they're sure they've got the source correct. They usually do a big housecleaning announcement once a month where they list the numbers for all the RMT roaches they've exterminated.

Actually, those reports are issued weekly, and if you total up the number of accounts permanently banned over the life of FFXIV you get hundreds of thousands of accounts. I'm not sure what happens with regard to banned accounts and whether they show up still on Lodestone, but I just wanted to point out that the extermination reports for RMT accounts banned are done weekly. Here are the last two weekly reports, around 10,000 permanently banned accounts in 2 weeks.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...84867b14e36430

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...3f1db3d06e4874

You can see the past reports here;

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/category/1

wow, info so easy to find and yet they wont ban the accounts?

Characters from banned accounts do not disappear from your friends list, nor are they deleted. I'm not sure whether any characters from banned accounts still show up on the Lodestone, but they are not deleted, just permanently locked out of the game.