Please Fix Bots!!!! in PVP. It's a Nightmare

[Kisama]

Gonna leave this here. This was a match where 91% of the players were bots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abp3jlvNvls

Can we, like, contact gaming news websites to run an article on this? I think its the only way to make Square do anything about the problem.

[Wintersandman]

Gonna leave this here. This was a match where 91% of the players were bots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abp3jlvNvls

I think everyone who reads this post read your other post with the same video.

[Joe777]

SE needs to reduce XP gained from PvPing, or remove it altogether. I mean, is there really a benefit to letting players gain levels from PvP rather than PvE at this point? It's not like you actually need to level up to get stronger in PvP now. Change the rewards for victory to something rewarding that only PvPing can get that isn't too farmable and that should solve the problem. If anything, people that just want to PvP would still go in even without getting a material reward. I mean it is just side content in a game like FF14 after all.

If the PvP population were to drop drastically if bots stopped going in then that means SE needs to step up their game to attract a large PvP community, as there wasn't one to begin with, or there was and they just stopped going in so much.

[Wolf_Tech]

I think that would work. Make the PVP a different point system. I miss pvp in wow for the same reason. PVP had no XP points only tomes for PVP gear.

[miraidensetsu]

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3. Ban the freaking bots.

EDIT: I say that because I'm against any change on the game just because bots like that. For example, for me, the saying "PVP shoudn't give any XP because bots abuse of it" shoudn't be even discussed. If the bots have the power to change the way legit players actually plays, they won the war.

By the same logic, you must take out all PvE because bots use it to level. Take out gathering because bots gather to sell gil. No! 1000 times NO! S-E shoudn't reduce XP or create a new currency because bots are using it. S-E SHOULD BAN THOSE FREAKING BOTS AND MAKE SURE THAT NO ONE CAN LOGIN USING A BOT. I'm sure that there are a security hole behind this that S-E should fix. Is someone is making money out of bots? It's simple: sue them.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Unfortunately, nothing will ever be done until SE stops assuming every piece of evidence can be magically doctored. As ThirdChild highlighted, they refuse to accept screenshots, videos and even live Twitch streams. So what other recourse do we even have? Crafting has a bot issue too, albeit nowhere near to the equivalent degree PvP does. SE just won't do anything.

[Ametrine]

Dungeon grinding has bots. Lots of em! You can spot players with garbled names out in the field clipping beneath the maps in front of low level dungeons, particularly Qarn.

SE is probably too scared to pull what Bungie did when they put in an algorithm to ban bots; legit players lost their Destiny accounts, and enough of them that it raised a stink with the community.

[Wolf_Tech]

Well tonight I qued for Rival Wings at 3 PM in the afternoon I waited and waited. Got A nice screenshot of the mins I waited till 11PM. 420 mins waiting and still never once it did come up ready to enter. What a total joke. At this point I almost want to quit seriously SE needs to fix this somehow. Rival wings has become a heaven for XP bots because it's unlimited XP every 20 min. All I wanted was the mount and at 98 wins looks like I will never get it now.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

Since 4.0 people have been erroneously saying that removing XP will kill all interest in PvP.

But fact is, there was a dedicated, competitive, and actually well-mannered and friendly community before 4.0, before XP, and before so many issues that nearly destroyed us. We didn't care about XP, we did all our leveling in leveling content; we legitimately enjoyed PvP, for all the good and bad it had to offer then.

[Texa]

But fact is, there was a dedicated, competitive, and actually well-mannered and friendly community before 4.0,

Wasn't there such an excessive amounts of players telling other players to kill themselves among other forms of abusive language in pvp that SE disabled text chat in one of the pvp modes?