Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[Jojoya]

Jojoya, in context for what I wrote earlier, it is deemed "bot friendly" because SE has zero client side monitoring, and the chances of being banned are miniscule unless they do something "stupid". stupid being use of teleport hacks, leaving it on 24/7, crafting in a public place etc. .

Thanks, that was the information I was looking for.

I do think that a 4 person STF team would be adequate for the Japanese player base of around 250,000 active players. However it seems ALL reports go through them so thats about 650,000 active accounts worldwide. The reports to the STF in Japan would need to be translated, and we all know translation can cause its own issues. For that reason each region, Japan, NA and Europe should have its own teams for sheer efficiency. I cannot imagine how many reports they receive, but I would think that the 4 people in Japan are always operating on a backlog since each case would require some form of investigation. in short, I feel 4 people is not nearly enough for what is required.

It's possible that the STF is understaffed and could use a few more on the team. I don't know if that number 4 that gets circulated is entirely accurate because I've only seen it coming from players and not SE. It could be there are others working with the STF but are in the game credits under different headings or not listed at all.

I still don't see how separate teams are needed for each region instead of putting them all on the same team working together.

Translation from English is not a problem for the Japanese team members. English is a compulsory subject in the school system there and they usually understand it quite well even if they can't speak it vwell (I was the same way with Spanish when I was younger).

German and French? I don't know the team's fluency in those language but there are SE employees who are fluent and able to translate as needed.

As for the number of players in each region, that's irrelevant. There aren't half a million players using bots. SE doesn't need enough employees to monitor every single account. They only need to monitor the ones showing suspicious behavior and they will have tools to identify and flag those based on login/logout patterns, frequency of activity, etc. in addition to the player reports they get.

If the bot defenders want to help us with that, then so be it!

Quit acting childish. I don't see anyone here who's trying to defend bots. They're trying to discuss the problem from the personal experience and knowledge they've gained through years of playing MMOs and competing in the player marketplaces of those games.

You can encourage others to block out differing (not even dissenting, just differing) points of view all you want, and all you accomplish is seal yourself up in an echo chamber of ignorance bewildered by why everyone you're willing to listen to agrees with you but the world doesn't became what you want.