do something about the bots

[xJimmehx]

Account bans don't work either they already found ways around that without losing money. Blizzard sued the big bot company for 8.6 mil and the bot company quit making their wow bot program after that.

If only SE would take a similar route..

8.6 million..towards the game. No, of course not all of it would, but even 1 or 2 million would likely allow us to have much bigger patches for a while.. Maybe the forums would finally get their male viera \o/

[Paladinleeds]

If only SE would take a similar route..

8.6 million..towards the game. No, of course not all of it would, but even 1 or 2 million would likely allow us to have much bigger patches for a while.. Maybe the forums would finally get their male viera \o/

Square Enix's legal team would take it and divert it all to either pay company costs, or for things likt eh FF7R, etc. I bet you not a single cent of it would go back to FFXIV.

[XenociderOmega]

It depends on how much gil they can make in an hour. They have to make it and pool it before getting snuffed out so they can sell it. They aren't being banned in an hour, they're being taken out in waves after a week+ which gives them plenty of time to make it worth repeating. If these are auto-flagged accounts (which I assume from the reported numbers), maybe they can make the gil earned by the player stick so it can't be spent/transferred. If there was a mistake made on the flag, they can just unlock the 'stick' variable that blocks the gil from being useful on that account.

I know how they roll out the bans its the same in WoW also i just went to look and the same company that was making WoW bots also has ff14 bots.

[KageTokage]

Both bot creators and the RMT bots themselves are like cockroaches. Even if you squish one, there's always more of them to take their place.

Blizzard was ultimately only able to stop one of the creators and have no power against the ones who aren't operating within the country, so it remains an issue to this day, albeit far less of one then it is in XIV (Largely due to their GMs actually having the authority to issue bans and knowing how to conduct a proper investigation unlike the STF). Aside from the obligatory RMT spammers, the only aspect of gameplay they've been a consistent issue in there is PvP as the GMs can't exactly be jumping into battlegrounds to observe suspected cheaters.

[XenociderOmega]

Both bot creators and the RMT bots themselves are like cockroaches. Even if you squish one, there's always more of them to take their place.

Blizzard was ultimately only able to stop one of the creators and have no power against the ones who aren't operating within the country, so it remains an issue to this day, albeit far less of one then it is in XIV (Largely due to their GMs actually having the authority to issue bans and knowing how to conduct a proper investigation unlike the STF). Aside from the obligatory RMT spammers, the only aspect of gameplay they've been a consistent issue in there is PvP as the GMs can't exactly be jumping into battlegrounds to observe suspected cheaters.

The company blizzard sued was in Germany

[KageTokage]

I guess "countries" would be more appropriate.

Pretty sure they still have no sway over anywhere outside of the US or EU.

[Jentaru]

its really easy to ban and resolve the issue and can use little man power at it.