Does Square intend to address Market botting?

[Angelhearth]

Bots don't exist if you don't talk about them.

They gonna struggle scrambling an AntiCheat System together on ancient code, but that is what they have to do sooner or later. Question is if it is even in the player and companies interest to do it, or if other things are more important. How many will quit playing because they cant make as much profit as they used to?

How many have quit so far, or are waiting for better times, only playing occasionally? A very large percentage of the players are on free accounts atm. After Blizzards disaster some years back I don't think many companies show the number of paying customers anymore, but it's quite easy to see who are playing free accounts or not in FFXIV, since they can't be in an FC, and max out at lvl 60. Personally I have changed my retainers of Field Exploration, logging in every 18 hours to check on them, crafting whatever I've sold, doing the gardening at my mansion and the FC, and logging in every time on of my subs has finished a voyage. For gaming I'm kind of lost. This was THE GAME, I thought, but the bots destroyed it, that and the retainers bringing back stuff crafters used to do, hammering the nail into the coffin. There are no new games coming out anytime soon that interests me, so I twiddle my thumbs and play Banished when I get too bored. I wonder if SE in reality has given up on FFXIV and are putting their resources into FFXVI. It's Naoki Yoshida developing that one too, ands it's PS5 only, hinting once more that they aren't really capable of controlling a game made for PC.

[ItMe]

wonder if SE in reality has given up on FFXIV and are putting their resources into FFXVI. It's Naoki Yoshida developing that one too, ands it's PS5 only, hinting once more that they aren't really capable of controlling a game made for PC.

... are mainline Final Fantasy games generally multiplatform on release?
I thought Sony had a temporary exclusivity deal with SQEX.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure FF7R is still only available on PS4 and PS5. I don't think FF16 being only available through a Sony console (on launch) has anything to do with any of the devs abilities.

[Angelhearth]

... are mainline Final Fantasy games generally multiplatform on release?
I thought Sony had a temporary exclusivity deal with SQEX.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure FF7R is still only available on PS4 and PS5. I don't think FF16 being only available through a Sony console (on launch) has anything to do with any of the devs abilities.

I don't question their abilities, just the fact that the OS Windows is so easily manipulated and wide spread. FFXVI was originally intended to be published on PS5 AND Windows, at launch, but that changed at about the same time as the botting industry flooded FFXIV, thus hinting at the developers accepting the fact that they don't have the resources to stop botting with Windows as a plattform, and therefor publishing the next in the series (FFXVI) exclusively on PS5, which they have much more control over, with their close cooperation with Sony. It's much easier to identify and block unwanted content when you have a direct line to the developer of the OS.

[DPZ2]

I don't question their abilities, just the fact that the OS Windows is so easily manipulated and wide spread. FFXVI was originally intended to be published on PS5 AND Windows, at launch, but that changed at about the same time as the botting industry flooded FFXIV, thus hinting at the developers accepting the fact that they don't have the resources to stop botting with Windows as a plattform, and therefor publishing the next in the series (FFXVI) exclusively on PS5, which they have much more control over, with their close cooperation with Sony. It's much easier to identify and block unwanted content when you have a direct line to the developer of the OS.

I find that hard to believe. You may think you read that a PC version would be be available at release, but they haven't even released the PC version of the FFVII remake, after a year.

Final Fantasy has always been, first and foremost, a console-oriented game series.

[Angelhearth]

I find that hard to believe. You may think you read that a PC version would be be available at release, but they haven't even released the PC version of the FFVII remake, after a year.

Final Fantasy has always been, first and foremost, a console-oriented game series.

You really should check before you post. It was originally announced for PC as well.

https://nordic.ign.com/news/39733/fi...ously-scrubbed