The amount of bots is too damn high

[Lasciar]

it's 9 am, there's a queue of >50 players on a weekday. There's over 500 bots active in all kinds of regions of the game. They destroy the whole economy of the game. I can't report all these players. I don't see how Square Enix thinks this is okay.

Only thing I can think of is that all these bots must have an active account to be able to do this, which means >500 accounts (Per server). It's really a lot of money to be making out of these bots.

A few examples of this.

[HyoMinPark]

You’ll want to remove those images. Moderators consider posting the names of bots “name-and-shame”, and they’ll just remove your thread.

You have my sympathies about the bot situation—I know it’s bad. But your complaint will be removed if you leave those pictures with the names in.

[PrismaticPop]

i see them running around in places they shouldnt be able to.
i see them standing around aetherytes in very high numbers.
they are everywhere, they completely ruin the server, they give us ques when there shouldnt be any.
and SE will, of course, not do anything.

how a payed game like this supports bots for money, is beyond acceptable.

but if you say something like 'butt' and someone reports you, you bet a suspension is coming.

twisted and unfair.

[eSiennaSkye]

I used to see them teleporting around all the time but now they can't even be bothered to do that, they just run on thin air and pass through every object in their way, it's absolutely ridiculous.
Imagine how much bandwidth and server performance would be saved for legitimate players if they developed an anti-cheat that got rid of these accounts, if only.