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[Krojack]

Do tell, how. No really, do you honestly think there's a magic fix to remove all bots from any online game, ever?

When I first started playing WoW in 2007 bots were EVERYWHERE. They were spamming chat advertising their sites. They were running into the main cities and dying to spell out their website in dead bodies. They were gathering as well. When I think back to when I last played the game (several years ago) I can't think of of the last time I saw a spam message in chat or a bot. They fixed their server and client code to not only patch out and prevent many bots but their greatly improved their client side bot software detection software.

Sure there still are bots but you almost rarely see them. There are 2 now level 80 gathering bots, one of them that I've been reporting since last December and the other since March that SE just won't ban. I just checked while posting this message and they are there, gathering those Aetherial Reduction nodes. They run the loops 24/7 non-stop. SE WILL NOT BAN THEM. There also appears to be a 3rd one now too.

The fact that SE won't even ban reported bots makes me want to quit this game.

[Gula]

When I first started playing WoW in 2007 bots were EVERYWHERE. They were spamming chat advertising their sites. They were running into the main cities and dying to spell out their website in dead bodies. They were gathering as well. When I think back to when I last played the game (several years ago) I can't think of of the last time I saw a spam message in chat or a bot. They fixed their server and client code to not only patch out and prevent many bots but their greatly improved their client side bot software detection software.

Sure there still are bots but you almost rarely see them. There are 2 now level 80 gathering bots, one of them that I've been reporting since last December and the other since March that SE just won't ban. I just checked while posting this message and they are there, gathering those Aetherial Reduction nodes. They run the loops 24/7 non-stop. SE WILL NOT BAN THEM. There also appears to be a 3rd one now too.

The fact that SE won't even ban reported bots makes me want to quit this game.

They ban in waves. And it's handled by a small task force for it. It is not Square Enix, the company prioritizing RMT over all their projects from Hitman timed events to manga sales. XIV has to prioritize the game running and addressing game breaking issues first. Also, this is more of an NA problem over JP which is even less incentive to stop the presses.

I'm not saying it's not an issue either.

[HumanNinjaToo]

I started playing again about 1 week or so before ShB opened. I never had to wait more than a couple of minutes to get into the game, even on the day it launched, my queue number was 175 or something, it took less than 5 minutes to get in.

[wereotter]

The queue has been there, at least on Aether, since before the expansion. I noticed it when they split the NA data centers, ever day, log in queue, even when character creation was restricted on the entire data center, log in queues every day. Since bots tend not to live very long, I don't think it's entirely bots gumming up the log in, though I suspect it's related.

I have the theory that it logs characters in in batches rather than just letting people pop in whenever since I can try to log in at 3am and still get a queue. I find it hard to believe that there are 10 people waiting to log in that early in the morning, and then when I try to log in after work it's only something like 25 people. If it is bots, however, this process may be able to start verifying real players versus bots sometime in the not too distant future, I hope, and eliminate them before they can even get online.

[Raltar]

It was nice before the expansion I could leave my character logged in for several days and I wouldn't get booted. Now he gets booted if I'm AFK for more than 15 minutes and it sucks. Please go back to how it was before the expansion.

[Allooutrick]

This was on July 3rd 2019