Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[Prrringles]

Can't we all just regularly (say weekly) spam the same report to the STF? I don't think complaining in this thread alone is going to do it. More collective action should be taken to take these accounts down I guess. Does anyone else have any input on how to efficiently achieve this?

[Kes13a]

Can't we all just regularly (say weekly) spam the same report to the STF? I don't think complaining in this thread alone is going to do it. More collective action should be taken to take these accounts down I guess. Does anyone else have any input on how to efficiently achieve this?

by their 'actions' I think the STF is just bunkered down in Japan and concentrates solely on that market. they have it under control there, they can justify their existence and the NA and EU are just inconvenient headaches that they will ignore and hope the issue solves itself. despite repeated and very clear reports, the botters seem to be grinding out gil for RMT and while they SAY they are against it, it continues unabated. yes, they ban the RMT shouters, they ban likely hundreds of 'Wkjsdhfskj Pjdsjhf' bots, but they are never addressing the actual issue.

Its hard to say they have to be incompetent, so my leaning is that they dont care.. period. or worse, get a cut of RMT sales.

[Prrringles]

by their 'actions' I think the STF is just bunkered down in Japan and concentrates solely on that market. they have it under control there, they can justify their existence and the NA and EU are just inconvenient headaches that they will ignore and hope the issue solves itself. despite repeated and very clear reports, the botters seem to be grinding out gil for RMT and while they SAY they are against it, it continues unabated. yes, they ban the RMT shouters, they ban likely hundreds of 'Wkjsdhfskj Pjdsjhf' bots, but they are never addressing the actual issue.

Its hard to say they have to be incompetent, so my leaning is that they dont care.. period. or worse, get a cut of RMT sales.

Well, if that is the case - and it probably is - then that is pretty sad. And I wouldn't put it past them since it was the same in FFXI. Their "JP onrly mentality" never changed. It pisses me off because I pay a chunky monthly fee for retainers myself and my stuff sendom sells because of these mb bots. Basically all I do is crafting/selling and the fun is long gone.

I'm sure all fanatic crafters here are in the same sinking boat. If nothing changes then surely the crafting community will die off. I for one am not going to camp the bell 24/7 or continue to spend hours a day crafting stuff that never sells anyway. SE is miserably failing here, what a joke.

[Voidle]

I feel like the same bots are being reported over and over again, but for whatever reason, SE just isn't banning some of the bots even though they are obviously involved in third-party software. I'm trying to ignore it, but it kind of pisses me off when nothing is being done about obvious cheaters/exploiters.

I don't mind competing against no-life players who hound the MB constantly, but it's clear when certain crafters aren't even leaving their apartment to farm their own materials and no mounts or minions are being purchased on their account. What are they even using the gil for?

Most botted accounts also use randomly generated FFXIV character names, follow very similar Namedate options, and character design. There's no individuality to these characters at all. Their sole reason is to farm gil and it's infuriating.