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    Moriarty-kills98's Avatar
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    Maelel Nimrellye
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    Louisoix server spamming botts?

    I have no idea if I'm posting this in the right place but just wondered if anyone had ever had any experience with seeing mutiple characters with 'keysmash' names and exactly the same attire repeatedly spawn over one another? Like... I'm talking three to five at a time. They vary in class but have the pretty much the same name, something like 'Thdkksidknf Jahdindk', pretty much same level and disappear before I even have time to try and interact with them, teleporting or just shooting around the screen... We saw them in several different locations just spawing and wondered if it could either be farming or something to do with the DDOS though that's supposedly only going on in the NA servers? (Have no idea how DDOS attacks work okay I play on PS4 and am new to MMOs
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    Texa Yuu
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    Scholar Lv 70
    I see those in the Gridania market pretty often. There's not anything you can do really. You can't interrupt them, calling other players bots publicly can get you in trouble, and SE usually blows off reports unless they're advertising rmt. Just a eerie aspect of the game at this point.
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    Player Clethoria's Avatar
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    Y'aschas Massif
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    Ultros
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    Quote Originally Posted by Texa View Post
    Just a eerie aspect of the game at this point.
    Not on the JP servers. I made separate characters on 2 different ones and never saw RMT spam ever.
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    Player Kosmos992k's Avatar
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    Kosmos Meishou
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    Quote Originally Posted by Texa View Post
    I see those in the Gridania market pretty often. There's not anything you can do really. You can't interrupt them, calling other players bots publicly can get you in trouble, and SE usually blows off reports unless they're advertising rmt. Just a eerie aspect of the game at this point.
    They don't blow off reports about bots. Bots are useful in tracking other accounts within an RMT network. The gil sold to players is generated by those bots, so SE can follow the gil, and find the command and control accounts, the bankers, and others. In other words, these bots are the little fish that lead to the big ones.

    Quote Originally Posted by Clethoria View Post
    Not on the JP servers. I made separate characters on 2 different ones and never saw RMT spam ever.
    Western gamers appear to be more prone to purchasing gil, so the RMT goes where the market is.
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    Tsubasa Katsuragi
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    They are gil farm bots. What with Odin being locked, I forgot they exist until I went to Louisoix yesterday on an alt and saw the ones in the main cities spammng their annoying messages. Those ones are easier to report. It's the ones that warp about which are harder. But if you do catch their names, feel free to report them.
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    Last edited by Natsuno; 06-28-2017 at 04:14 AM.

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    Sonja Djt-bidit
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kosmos992k View Post
    Western gamers appear to be more prone to purchasing gil, so the RMT goes where the market is.
    That's not why they aren't seeing RMT. They market to JP servers differently. It's also easier to beat the spam filters in english.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kosmos992k View Post
    They don't blow off reports about bots
    They definitely have when I've contacted them on the issue in the past. They hit rmt shouters right away but if you try to contact them about those weird teleporting bots or someone who has been gathering for 48 hours straight you're told to take it somewhere else and that's a whole other can of worms.

    On the jp bot thing, they're not *as* much of a thing but I've definitely seen a lot of gold for sale on Japanese servers browsing through yahoo!jp to find pictures of old merch.
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