Square-Enix, please, do something about the bots

[Moonlite]

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The lack of rmt spam is a result of the player base being vocal about them actually building a decent filter into the game. It was something they should have launched with and instead had to be bombarded to get fixed.

Or they could have a system that bans bots in a more timely fashion. Instead of letting them put tens of thousands of items into the game. Most reasonable people would agree that bots are never going away. But as an MMO company keeping your game clean in a timely fashion is also reasonable.

Multiple posts over the years have shown SE does not react as if this is a threat to the integrity of the game. While allowing it to grow before getting around to removing it. Here is a little experiment I tried way back in 2.X days. Some of the shard sellers were bots they could not humanly possible provide the amount they had on the AH. So I removed all the wind shards I had onto a retainer. Bought from a "Supposed" bot, put those new shards onto a different retainer and watched the ban waves. Eventually they got removed. The shards I had bought from them did not. So how many billions of shards do you think they put into the game before a timely response happened?

[Shouko]

Multiple posts over the years have shown SE does not react as if this is a threat to the integrity of the game. While allowing it to grow before getting around to removing it. Here is a little experiment I tried way back in 2.X days. Some of the shard sellers were bots they could not humanly possible provide the amount they had on the AH. So I removed all the wind shards I had onto a retainer. Bought from a "Supposed" bot, put those new shards onto a different retainer and watched the ban waves. Eventually they got removed. The shards I had bought from them did not. So how many billions of shards do you think they put into the game before a timely response happened?

P2P models rarely act on bots as they're making them money via subs. I dealt with that in WoW for years, they never did anything back then except for spamming which actually hurt the players more than the bots.