Creepy ffxiv Bots

[Signy]

Then next time you see them thanks them for keeping your felt clothes cheap.

[Conradus]

Then next time you see them thanks them for keeping your linen clothes cheap.

ITYM "felt".

[VoltaAsura]

Its really odd....but most of the time ive seen bots in xiv is in/around cedarwood. Back when i first started, i literally saw a real bot.... the char walked like a robot and had sparks flying from it.....was the weirdest thing ive seen ingame....and oddly enough havent seen one like that since then.....whazat. i dont understand is: why even bot? Theres not a lot of people who play this game, so the audience/market for gil buying just isnt there....so imo its pointless.

[Lauro]

so here i was running from one crystal to another. when i passed by cedar wood i happened on these 2 groups of bots

the first group is obviously a broken bot stuck in a loop as they keep cycling what they are looking at like someone holding down the tab button



a video of the bots doing bottish things

http://youtu.be/D9pRaxm6w5Y

the second group is about the same as the other except this grrop has linkshell tags that are just as random as their names are. the second group also is activating leve's but not doing anything




the full group about 12 in all ( apple and men are normal people that happened to be standing around )

group one :

CNJ 39 - There day
CNJ 39 - Turner Anm
CNJ 40 - Sky Club
CNJ 40 - Seven Loo
CNJ 40 - Housr Los
CNJ 39 - Marik Gry
CNJ 39 - Viou Amx

Group two:

CNJ 50 - Fyce fuzz - Alexandra Linkshell
THM 9 - Have Milk - New Moon Linkshell
CNJ 50 - Foob Kccc - Yoland linkshell
CNJ 50 - Faina More - Bum Kanikuly linkshell
CNJ 50 - Fur Two - Bum Kanikuly linkshell
THM 19 - Faurlee Many - Bob Love linkshell




which brings me to my main question. if Sqex has such a negative view on botting why is there no easy way to report bots from in-game?

Don Bother with this .. Probably Ashvrei will just close it down like he did when i try to report Botter/RMT/Dualboxers on also Halatali and Also Lalafels of WUTAI Server , in this "CLOSE" Thread. Well so far they are still there... tough luck im just goign to "quote" Ashvrei

Hey Lauro and everyone,

Thank you for taking the time out to report your concern regarding suspicious behavior. We have gathered the information you posted and will be sure to escalate this to the Special Task Force where they will be handled accordingly.
We understand that suspicious behavior such as odd names, synchronized movement, and always rolling in the same group are factors used to consider when investigating. However, this evidence alone can't necessarily confirm that they are exchanging Gil for real life currency/using third party programs.
We do have a form to escalate this suspicious behavior to the Special Task Force, where they can review their activity and confirm any involvement with malicious activity. The link located here:
http://support.na.square-enix.com/co...hp?id=902&la=1

We do want to make it clear that it can be considered against that policy to publicly post names and label them real money traders despite your good intentions to improve the community. Therefore, it would be best to utilize the Special Task Force report form to prevent any grief for innocent players in the unlikely event they get caught in the crossfire.

The corresponding FINAL FANTASY XIV forum policy is as follows:
"Posting that constitutes discrimination against another forum member or group (also including forming groups for the purpose of discrimination), insults, slander, libel, harassment of a group or individual."
http://support.na.square-enix.com/ru...la=1&tag=forum

Thank you,
-Ashvrei

This is Exactly what i said on my Wutai Forums and they are still there.. same bunch..

[Falcus]

I remember seeing a blatant bot on Trabia about a month ago.
Seems SE doesn't care about them even if they are extremely blatant.

I found this one quite funny though. They seemed to spam one set of keys over and over so the moment a mob stepped in front (within range) of them they would start casting fire.
What made it funny was that you could pull mobs to in front of them and have them kill it for you and when I said "thanks for the PL" to them later on they didn't have a clue what I was on about (I used them to PL a friend ;P)

[SwordCoheir]

I saw one running back and forth north of horizon for over an hour. I was wondering wth was going on, but then realized after using Arbor Call it was constantly changing targets between the two trees on the opposite side of the crater. So his bot program must have been spamming it as well confusing the logic program and making him run in circles w/o him even realizing it. XD

[VitoScaletta]

To be fair if u send him a tell and he rePlies it isnt botting. Rmt on the other hand appears obvious.