Quote Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi View Post
I'm sure the only reason players still use unauthorized tools on this game is because SE hasn't shown any willingness to delete accounts.
I think the gil farmers are pretty much the only exception to that rule.

But yeah, bans are so rare that there's little to no scare factor to discourage people from doing it, which is why the number of botters seems to just keep increasing as time goes on. A lot of them likely reason that by the time they actually get caught for the first time they'll have made so much gil that it won't even matter. There was also a story floating around on the PvP forums of some speed-hacking BLM who managed to get through multiple seasons of PvP at the top ranks before they finally banned him, but even when they did, it was only a temporary ban and he was later seen cheating again both in and out of PvP.

They really should have a zero tolerance policy for players who show evidence of long term cheating, though before that they need to start banning people with some semblance of frequency/reliability because I see about as many bots on my server alone as the total being banned across the entire game each week.