PVP bots

[Cadmus]

I will take any punishment

[saucyshortcake]

I tried a lot of things. At first I began making a list of bots based on behaviors, and within one weekend I had over 120 in the list. I can't report all those and keep my sanity.

So I tried reporting one bot on a daily basis. Once a day for a month, the guy was in there every day pretty much. Never got actioned.

They don't care about bots, at this point I'd freely say just bot all you want. You won't get banned. SE will just discard the tickets if anyone does bother to report you.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

Worse still, they'll likely just delete this thread, because apparently exposing a cheater is a worse offense than the one who's cheating, yes?

[BloodRubyXII]

Worse still, they'll likely just delete this thread, because apparently exposing a cheater is a worse offense than the one who's cheating, yes?

THIS IS A SAFE PLACE.

[Zojha]

THIS IS A SAFE PLACE.

I.e. it will be locked?

It's what you do with safes.

[Culfinrandir]

There is a player on Leviathan that I reported several times for botting in Frontlines when Garo was first released (it was obvious & undeniable botting). They regularly get high in the Feast & PVP rankings. Recently I watched them botting & using hacks on the Ananta Beast Tribe quests when they were released. These people are literally teleporting to Velodyna Bridge & then out to the quest markers & back afterwards. Surely that's about as obvious as it gets & requires very little investigation by SE.

[Tussin]

they should just call this EXP AFK MODE. THIS ISNT PVP

[Theodric]

I just sat through a fifty minute queue for Frontlines at what is supposedly prime-time on Aether. It seemed like a significant number of players were bots...

>_>

[Zsolen]

If they won't stop bots in gathering and FATE grinding, they won't stop this.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

That only compounds they question: WHY aren't they stopping it?


You know, with all the other games I've been playing lately, some for free, I am beginning to question why I should bother paying to play this when SE hasn't shown much of anything as far as doing something about this issue. It became a significant problem at the start of Stormblood, and HALF A YEAR LATER, nothing has still been done about it. Saw a bot/botter I reported and also put up a video about on my channel months ago in a match yesterday. That's unacceptable, even more so remembering that I was never contacted, nor has anything clearly been done about it.

So, honestly at this point, post your videos. Share them all you like. Share them here, share them to gaming media sites, share them everywhere. I mean, people openly violate the TOS for half a year and get away with it. Why should anyone be punished for exposing it? Punishing someone for "name shaming" a cheater, openly cheating on stream or caught on video, and NOT the actual cheater would be quite a nasty double standard. Is that okay? Like, SE, is that what you would expect people to pay for?

SE this is really that point where you need to ask yourself whether your "screenshots and videos as evidence" bit is actually helping you fix this or not. Because it isn't. And if you're actually trying to improve and attract people to PvP in this game or build an e-sports scene, this is one of your bigger problems to address first. And it would be wise to address it before it fully kills all interest in it, and starts costing you subscriptions.