Is there any better way of reporting Bots?

[KageTokage]

I wish they had a quick report option for cheaters in general.

It gets tiresome having to fill out the same form over and over again when you're likely not even going to get any results.

[KageTokage]

The clone bots are definitely being used for RMT gil farming.

They seemingly transfer their money by buying things from the market board because I've seen them both standing in front of it normally and hacking themselves underneath it.

[Wyvernheart]

Bots killed pvp.

[KageTokage]

These guys have to be making a killing by selling gil if they can afford subs for all those accounts, so whatever SE is doing to combat them doesn't seem to be working that well.

In this situation, banning them quickly would be better in the long run as they'll eventually go into a deficit if the accounts are getting banned faster then they can earn/sell enough gil to cover the expenses used in creating each bot.

[Mwynn]

These guys have to be making a killing by selling gil if they can afford subs for all those accounts, so whatever SE is doing to combat them doesn't seem to be working that well.

In this situation, banning them quickly would be better in the long run as they'll eventually go into a deficit if the accounts are getting banned faster then they can earn/sell enough gil to cover the expenses used in creating each bot.

Credit Card Frauded Keycodes, hence it is assumed they get banned that fast.
I mean even Square Enix at a Point warned us Players not to buy "Steam" Keycodes from any other Source then Steam itself.

[Mith_Von_Voodoo]

See I think most people are realistic and don't expect a game to have no bots. What is annoying and pretty pathetic is seeing no action at all on reported bots. You don't need a bunch of software, just people to actually follow through with the reports so players feel like action is taking place.

[KageTokage]

See I think most people are realistic and don't expect a game to have no bots. What is annoying and pretty pathetic is seeing no action at all on reported bots. You don't need a bunch of software, just people to actually follow through with the reports so players feel like action is taking place.

I think the thing that bothers me most is that they aren't obligated to give you a reply to any reports so you can't even know if they're trying to do something about a problematic player.

This leaves me with a lingering thought of "Maybe it'll work eventually", especially because I've seen multiple people making claims about their friends getting banned for botting. However, it gets annoying to have to keep typing a detailed report again and again when I can't be sure anyone is even reading it in the first place.

[Zeonx]

Though in all honesty bots ruin all games.

perfect example would be Titanfall nobody cared about the game cause the AI was mostly bots.

Same for Css nobody would play in private servers with just bots.

hackers in csgo use bots game dropped in popularity

bots simple ruin everything unless its like on 007 n64 or perfect dark

[TaranTatsuuchi]

How so? Why would banning them earlier have a negative effect on the game? Or do you mean in terms of hypothetical measures they'd need to catch them earlier? Or I guess we'd be swarmed with lots of "new players" doing the same first few stages of the game before they were banned.

As well as coming across random groups from time to time, while I was doing one of my white mage quests there was a bot that just kept warping in and out of there literally on top of Raya-O the whole time I was interacting with her - which just seems rude on top of clearly cheating.

The idea is...

The farming bots, and the spam bots, are not important at all in the grand scheme.
They're disposable to the RMT companies, and easily replaced.


What you really want to do is catch their higher up accounts.
The ones holding all the farmed money.

Wipe out their stock and that really sets them back, kill off their farming bots, or the spam bots and it does nothing to them.

[Dustytome]

Wipe out their stock and that really sets them back, kill off their farming bots, or the spam bots and it does nothing to them.

They have to be able to track the teleporting don't they? Surely they could just automatically toss someone in the hold for that and a gm can verify if needed, then the top level never gets its goods and they're just stuck in a never ending loop of gaining nothing. The fact that they're still doing it means they're still profiting off it and the current method isn't working. We've sat for how long now with the city aetheryte being spammed by essentially the same keywords for months? They can't block keywords server side for trial accounts or let us just block messages client side containing keywords? It feels like they fixed one issue and just stopped innovating.