BOTS!!!!!!!

[Gorb_McNasty]

When are SE going to do anything about these bots??

500+ queue trying to get into Twintania and i guess it's the same on all others too!!!!

This is absolutely unacceptable!!!

Sort out the damn servers and prioritise paying customers over free trials!!!!!!!

[Lonu]

I totally with u. there are a lot of bots anywhere... saw 3 groups of 20-30 charakters standing around the teleport stone in gridania...

and in every zone u can see a lot of them too...
SE u have to do something, this is not acceptable

[HyoMinPark]

Sort out the damn servers and prioritise paying customers over free trials!!!!!!!

I’m totally sympathizing with the bot complaints, but I just want to clarify that bots use paid accounts—they aren’t using the free trial because they can’t gather gil for RMT in FC chests with free trials. They tend to use stolen credit cards to buy their accounts.

[Gorb_McNasty]

I’m totally sympathizing with the bot complaints, but I just want to clarify that bots use paid accounts—they aren’t using the free trial because they can’t gather gil for RMT in FC chests with free trials. They tend to use stolen credit cards to buy their accounts.

Really? they are paid accounts?
Oh ok , That changes everything then...
As far as SE will be concerned then , They won't give a damn.. Unless they are caught RMT.

Thanks Hyo

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Really? they are paid accounts?
Oh ok , That changes everything then...
As far as SE will be concerned then , They won't give a damn.. Unless they are caught RMT.

Thanks Hyo

No, because rmt accounts using stolen cards re bad for SE, as fraud and charge backs impacts the ability to process credit transactions. It's in their best interest for rmt to not exist.

[HyoMinPark]

Really? they are paid accounts?
Oh ok , That changes everything then...
As far as SE will be concerned then , They won't give a damn.. Unless they are caught RMT.

Thanks Hyo

Yeah, they’re sadly paid accounts. Most tend to get to FC and hoard a bunch of Gil farmed from MSQ and Amdapor Keep in FC chests, and since trials don’t allow you to be in an FC or go past level 35, it would be impossible that they’re trial accounts. :c

I would like to see a crackdown on them though. Even with my server being currently congested and closed to creation, I still see the /shout spam bots in the city, and even an odd few glitching underground doing MSQ with the <Wanderer> tags. I haven’t attempted to log into my Twintania alt due to all the issues I’ve been seeing about queues over there.

[Nedkel]

Really? they are paid accounts?
Oh ok , That changes everything then...
As far as SE will be concerned then , They won't give a damn.. Unless they are caught RMT.

Thanks Hyo

It does not change it to better, its a money laundering scheme, and SE should get rid of it if they dont want to be hold accountable for it.

[Gorb_McNasty]

It does not change it to better, its a money laundering scheme, and SE should get rid of it if they dont want to be hold accountable for it.

Well let's see what they do about it re if they give a damn or not... But i'm not gonna hold my breath.

[Ardox]

Really? they are paid accounts?
Oh ok , That changes everything then...
As far as SE will be concerned then , They won't give a damn.. Unless they are caught RMT.

Thanks Hyo

They don't get money from RMT's «paid» subscriptions. RMT use stolen credit cards, which means SE would benefit from a fraud: SEhave to pay back that money to the credit compagnies

[galbsadi]

Again, the only way to really combat this is to remove the demand that's bringing the bots in.

The moment SE decides to do their own method of facilitating gil transfers between players (like how Blizzard did with their WoW token)...99% of the bots go away, probably overnight even.

The only other solutions are to keep doing what they're doing (which obviously doesn't work), or try banning players too (which [a] would be hard to prove and could lead to griefing and [b] still might not work and [c] would absolutely have a negative impact on their subscription growth)...or ignore the problem (which also wouldn't work).