The majority of new characters are bots

[Celef]

It has actually always been like this, at least on some servers. They will stand at Northern Thanalan in groups of 4 and teleport away in parties. SE are aware though, the best thing you can do is report them, although they definitely need an easier report system for the amount of bots there currently is.

I think we'll get that in 3.4

Well what i have seen in Cerberus server most bots uses Black mage to farm stuff from duty finder (I have seen many bot groups that are afk in same place disappearing and appearing every 5-20 min) and last week i saw was it group of 5-7 Black Mage bots with no-clip hack (I saw them inside the ground killing enemies) and speed hack.

Jeez, no wonder why queue time are so long if they are full of DPs bots oO

[Norleas]

I always see them in Ul'dah with their BLM trio. I think occasionally I can see the person controlling them, because there's sometimes a random new player with the standard Hyuran look targetting them.

[Grant_Wilshire]

We have a ton of new leafs on Siren and they're not bots.

I am one of those new leafs.

I haven't run across any of these bots on Siren, but I can understand why Square Enix is hesitant to go after them. It is hard to regulate, not a lot of return value if they get rid of then, and they are there because of the market for illegal money (so the real players are causing this issue). Do they cause issues other than perhaps making waits longer? I guess it would stink to get grouped with them in a duty finder now that I think about it.

[Fourbestintoner]

surprised that bots are now archers instead of thm

They only grind archer to 15 to become blm.

[Mwynn]

Quarrymill on Cerberus this morning. A horde of them appeared right in front of the NPC that allows you to enter the Palace of the Dead.
Funny thing, there were over hundreds seeming to defy gravity itself and jump in a huge distance right in the middle of the NPCs themselves which suggest they do the Main Story Quests.

This caused Sprouts and other Players asking if this is "Common" in this Game...

Reporting them might be a thing ... let alone Reporting one, due of their awful Name Combinations....

[Cwestcott18]

Example here: http://imgur.com/a/jXMbK

Theres plenty more on the list.

I have seen them teleport around and glitch out and moving in groups, theres so many it makes me feel like I am playing a F2P MMO.

It never used to be like this.

Maybe your like that kid from Sixth Sense who can see bots "I see bots @.@"

[LunaFaye]

surprised that bots are now archers instead of thm

they didn't get that memo on leviathan. We still do it old school with thm.

[KitingGenbu]

Its not against forum policy to list names or have screenshots showing names? Even if they may be rmt...

[MaeIsMean]

Not really sure what you are expecting in making this thread.... are you just making an observation? Are you expecting SE to do something about it? What exactly CAN they do that wouldn't also hurt actual real new players who are also among those, even if a small percentage?

[Zigabar]

Next time I make an alt, I'm going as a THM and gonna let my cat walk across the keyboard for the name.

On topic, they've been around forever. This is not new.