Square-Enix, please, do something about the bots

[KageTokage]

I don't think the bots are ever going to be addressed unless there's a serious outcry about it, at least on the level of the housing issue. Unfortunately, from what I've noticed on my server, people are often oblivious to bots, don't care about them, or actually want them around due to driving down the prices on items (Which is strictly beneficial for the crafters who are too lazy to gather their own materials).

The fact that it's largely a non-issue on the JP side of things is also likely another factor playing into why it's being handled so poorly.

[Luna_Ariana]

I don't think the bots are ever going to be addressed unless there's a serious outcry about it, at least on the level of the housing issue. Unfortunately, from what I've noticed on my server, people are often oblivious to bots, don't care about them, or actually want them around due to driving down the prices on items (Which is strictly beneficial for the crafters who are too lazy to gather their own materials).

The fact that it's largely a non-issue on the JP side of things is also likely another factor playing into why it's being handled so poorly.

Ye sadly even if we do know who the bots are I think we mainly dont do anything bout it hence SE doesn't do anything bout it either. Even if you report a Bot who got something wrong in their botting script and so something weird doesn't affect hence SE rather checks them by Chatlog only and not the vids/pics we send them cause it "might be edited".

Maybe it is good to adress this Issue within the Liveletter which will come incase they may wanted our Questions again. or we really cry loud about it like we did with housing...

[Mwynn]

Maybe it is good to adress this Issue within the Liveletter which will come incase they may wanted our Questions again. or we really cry loud about it like we did with housing...

Be surprised but... in one of the latest Live Letters (I think it was before SB hit) the very first Posts contained that Question.
It had over 100 Likes if not even more so yet ... has been totally ignored.

As you can probably think, Glamour Questions were more prioritized...

The fact that it's largely a non-issue on the JP side of things is also likely another factor playing into why it's being handled so poorly.

There were tons of Aetherial Reduction / Ephermal Node Bots on Mana Datacenter according to a few Discord Members who play on Shinryu and other Servers.
That said during 3.56 Heavensward times, how it looks now during Stormblood, I hardly can imagine, tho I'd be not surprised if those are still around.
Even JPN Servers have their Black Sheeps, tho their Community is a bit more punishing when it comes to Players doing awful things or like this.

Basically I remember a Rampage going on because a Female Player was being harrassed of a Streamer / Raider, which the Community decided to raid a entire House with naked Roegadyns as punishment.

[aesteval]

Ye sadly even if we do know who the bots are I think we mainly dont do anything bout it hence SE doesn't do anything bout it either. Even if you report a Bot who got something wrong in their botting script and so something weird doesn't affect hence SE rather checks them by Chatlog only and not the vids/pics we send them cause it "might be edited".

Maybe it is good to adress this Issue within the Liveletter which will come incase they may wanted our Questions again. or we really cry loud about it like we did with housing...

There was a gathering bot that I reported during Heavensward. It did eventually disappear. Took a while, but it is gone.

[Luna_Ariana]

Be surprised but... in one of the latest Live Letters (I think it was before SB hit) the very first Posts contained that Question.
It had over 100 Likes if not even more so yet ... has been totally ignored.

As you can probably think, Glamour Questions were more prioritized...

What? Wow that's really not cool from them. Still hope they reconsider this issue. <___<

There was a gathering bot that I reported during Heavensward. It did eventually disappear. Took a while, but it is gone.

If many more people report a specific bot think it can disappear. So ye it could work.... maybe.

Also may I ask to people who play other MMOs: How do they get rid of them? Speaking of both RMT and Gatherer Bots from actual active people.

[DeaconMoore]

Also may I ask to people who play other MMOs: How do they get rid of them? Speaking of both RMT and Gatherer Bots from actual active people.

They don't. It's a never ending dance. Bot programmer makes a bot and sells it. Game developers study said bot, determine how to detect it, then ban them. Bot programmers see how they are being detected and make a new bot that won't be and sell it. And so on.

[HaelseMikiro]

There was a gathering bot that I reported during Heavensward. It did eventually disappear. Took a while, but it is gone.

The legitimate player who was running the bot probably just quit the game