do something about the bots

[Jentaru]

i just think that they should do something that works instead of this " oh they do and they are back" i log in every day and get excessive of 300 bots on my server and they are obvious ones.... like. you would have to be a complete idiot not to see it. it isn't hard for a DEV or GM to go once an hour or less once every 30 min and do a sweep of each server for bots....if they cant do it id love to do it for free on my days off. guarentee id get over 500 a day.

[DrWho2010]

is that what you would really want your job to be? just sit there all day and delete bots? FFFUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

[XenociderOmega]

If you ban a bot they will return in less than an hour the only true way to get rid if them is to do what blizzard did and hit them somewhere that's not easy to recover from their wallets.

[xJimmehx]

If you ban a bot they will return in less than an hour the only true way to get rid if them is to do what blizzard did and hit them somewhere that's not easy to recover from their wallets.

This is why i would suggest account bans. Not character bans. Theyd have to buy the game all over again, maybe even expansions. It wouldnt be worth the money any more.

How did blizzard affect their wallets?

[XenociderOmega]

This is why i would suggest account bans. Not character bans. Theyd have to buy the game all over again, maybe even expansions. It wouldnt be worth the money any more.

How did blizzard affect their wallets?

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.

[Dustytome]

If you ban a bot they will return in less than an hour the only true way to get rid if them is to do what blizzard did and hit them somewhere that's not easy to recover from their wallets.

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.

[DrWho2010]

they get to 50 in less than a day and then start their farming activities.

[Liam_Harper]

A week or two ago, I queued for an EX trial with a full group and got a "Reserving Server" message and a wait time.

Remembering that the company chest in Ul'dah had bots inside it for the last 2 weeks queuing for instances, I did a World player search, lv50-50 and the entire list, except 4 players, were BLM bots. The full 200/200, all bots, all queuing for an instance. In fact, 200 was just the view limit, there might have been a thousand for all I know.

I'm baffled anyone can say it's always been like that, I've never seen so many bots active that they literally choked out the instance servers.

[Lemuel81]

i am tired of logging into ff14 and having a que because se fails to do something active against bots. heck give someone a discount and let them help you flag botters while they play. some people know what to look for... but come on... every day.

was there ever a successful MMO that that there were no bots or RMT? Just not going to happen..I have accepted that reality a long time ago. That is a lot of resources and money to go toward that when I would rather have them use it on the game itself.

[Barraind]

Remembering that the company chest in Ul'dah had bots inside it for the last 2 weeks queuing for instances

I like playing the "Spot the wallhackers in the chest" game there.

Those darn qzqrtqyteu's