Another ban wave, another disappointment.

[Tiraelina]

None of these businesses want to actually handle their rampant bots. The latent information gathering just needs to stop being looked at as the only method. They need to hire people to hunt them down and ban them permanently. Letting them run free for months at a time because they think you can just break the software (which will get fixed within hours) just makes the damage they do permanent.

[Xeon]

And erratic movements do not constitute a bot. More than likely they, or you, were lagging at those points. Think about it. The in-game NPCs that fight with you. They are bots. That chocobo that sits by your side. He/she is a bot too. The thing is, that with the majority of crafting and gathering actions, is that they can't be interrupted, and don't cause that "jerky" movement you see. Latency and the recent DDoS attacks have much more to do with that. I've seen friends disappear out of sight, even their name, only to return when they engage in battle.. Come to find out that this behavior was caused by a memory leak present with this game on all AMD graphics cards.. I would often see myself disappear only able to see my gear floating about in mid-air. Most everything that you describe as erratic movements can be linked with documented problems with the game or the hardware it runs on.

[Xeon]

And for the record, I'm not for bots either, but as a legacy player, I've seen every kind of behavior that you have listed as criteria for bots from legit players. I have been around since nearly the start of 1.0, which most of you never got to see. If you had been here as long as I have, you would know that SE has continued to reduce the number of bots running around. If you don't like them now, you really wouldn't have liked them back then in a time where they were literally 10 times more of them than present.

I dont miss 1.0. Not really. Only the beautiful graphics it had. Nothing in this game to date compares or even comes close. Who would've thought, that many years into the future when general computing has advanced so much, especially with graphics cards, that we would still be seeing the shit graphics that the current game has to offer.

[Shouko]

And for the record, I'm not for bots either, but as a legacy player, I've seen every kind of behavior that you have listed as criteria for bots from legit players. I have been around since nearly the start of 1.0, which most of you never got to see. If you had been here as long as I have, you would know that SE has continued to reduce the number of bots running around. If you don't like them now, you really wouldn't have liked them back then in a time where they were literally 10 times more of them than present.

Not a legacy but start of ARR when it dropped on the consoles and I remember the sheer amount of bots that were in the game at the time, you had to either turn off the noise for a /tell or move it to a separate tab all together so you didn't get bombarded by bots.

[Xeon]

See now that's the point I'm trying to make. If SE "didn't care," or "didn't do anything," then there would be way more bots than there were then, but there's not. Literally 90% of the bot activity has already been removed from the game and they are still working on the rest.

So OP, you really need to take a chill pill or a puff off the doobie. Quit blowing up at everything you don't understand and saying they're a bot, because there is no proof of what you say that these people are actually bots, and if they are, SE will get to them. They have been doing this all along, but maybe you've not been around long enough to notice.

[Steel_Arrow]

See now that's the point I'm trying to make. If SE "didn't care," or "didn't do anything," then there would be way more bots than there were then, but there's not. Literally 90% of the bot activity has already been removed from the game and they are still working on the rest.

On the off chance that you're just slow on the up-take, rather than a botter who is trying to claim "nope, no problem here", the issue is that only the most obvious botters get picked up by their algorithms. They don't actually respond to, or even investigate individual reports.