Win traders

[Razzii]

Helllllooooo, there are alot of wintrading going on right now on Aether...why hasn't anything been done yet?? No acknowledgement nothing......
And you guys want to have ESPORTS.....HAAAHaaaa.

[Titor]

it's pathetic and the lack of action is just encouraging the behavior to become more prevalent and blatant

[Aviars]

The win trading is so obvious that it is also obvious SE doesn't seem to care about cheating.

[Rufalus]

They just need to hire more on the NA/EU side so there are dedicated people monitoring all kinds of cheating and disruptive behavior (win trade, botting, etc) all the time. Certain areas of the game are really heavily hit by abuse for prolonged periods and it looks more like some private server game than an official thing run by a big company. I think even a couple of moderators could make a big difference if this was their main job and they took action against unfair behavior all day, thin the herd. A lot of people would stop even trying to cheat the system with the threat that sooner or later they'd be caught and banned.

[Mantrus]

But it's not even that they don't have enough people.

Reports for PvP are just ignored at this point.

Until now, one trader has just been dcing their alt/friend since plat and not even hiding their cheating.

Soon this win trader and another infamous one will reach top 10, and it's easy to know they're trading if you check their matches at all.

Even then, SE won't take action and PvP ranks are a joke.

Forums are just the devs pretending to listen; we could spam topics about them all over and we'd still get ignored.

[Cynric]

snip.

Yeah I saw how close they were this morning to top 10. It's unfortunate and the exact reason why I haven't bothered to push that high. Black week will just be a mess and probably make my efforts feel wasted.

I know at least one of those players has been reported multiple times. Which yes does make me feel like the reports go ignored.

[KhujaM]

I just got into a game with a healer that afk's at the start of the match not healing done at all, and that's the third time I've seen him doing it against another certain person. What is SE doing? Nothing. "Not enough info" Yea right.

[Mofafafa]

Instead of ranting (well i rant a lot in twitter and got myself a warning from SE because I was showing defamation l0l)

Try to post what happen during the *Win Trading Action* with date, time, server, and what is their role during the win tradings, this give us a headsup of when are they tradings.

I'm pretty sure posting their full name is a no no but I'm not sure if abbreviated name is allowed

Example.
Name: M. F.
Server: Tonberry - Elemental
Time: 420blazeit ~ hammer time
Role: Geomancer
Additional Info: this guy is drunk

something like that, might help the GM easier to investigate as a bunch of similar reports will just flood the inbox and making the employee being unproductive(maybe)
Also this will helps other players/victims know what happen if they come across this threads and understanding if they saw similar act in their games, thus, making a reports from their end.

[Cynric]

snip.

Pretty sure that's gonna be not allowed

[Geryth]

Instead of ranting (well i rant a lot in twitter and got myself a warning from SE because I was showing defamation l0l)

Try to post what happen during the *Win Trading Action* with date, time, server, and what is their role during the win tradings, this give us a headsup of when are they tradings.

I'm pretty sure posting their full name is a no no but I'm not sure if abbreviated name is allowed...

The forums is a separate entity from the game itself and this has never been and will never be a place to report someone for in-game behavior. It will get you banned from posting.

The best you can do is anonymously post in a third party like a FFXIV subreddit or something if you at least want other players to be aware.