Is Botting Allowed?

[Liam_Harper]

I personally think it is absurd to leave a game just because you saw a bot. SE is known to do ban waves, regularly but like any other MMO, bots do get through. But you will be banned, whether it is RMT or just using any type of 3rd party program.

They do ban waves mostly on RMT sellers, which openly break ToS because they can just make new accounts. If you're an individual player with a bot and you're smart enough not to announce it or use it all day every day in public areas, they have literally no way to detect you and you will never be banned. This includes crafting via bot in your house.

To be honest it's equally absurd to enjoy crafting and gathering but just sit back happily and say nothing while bots wreck it.

[Jojoya]

To be honest it's equally absurd to enjoy crafting and gathering but just sit back happily and say nothing while bots wreck it.

Bots haven't done a thing to wreck crafting and gathering. SE didn't make the changes to crafting and gathering that have people upset because of bots. Players are still capable of enjoying crafting and gathering as activities despite the existence of bots.

What bots have wrecked are the massive profits a tiny percentage of players used to get from selling some items obtained through crafting and gathering. Many players feel that's a good thing. They're not going to complain.

It's only a small number of players who feel they are being impacted in a negative way. It makes sense that we're only seeing a small number of complaints.

[Liam_Harper]

Bots haven't done a thing to wreck crafting and gathering.

Do you just love arguing with me. Not even going to bother with you, I wasted my time enough in the past. Even when we agree you troll me just for the sake of disagreeing.

The primary goal for most people who craft and gather has always been to make money.

Exactly, your post sums up my thoughts perfectly. I'd also add there are things like the Pteranodon which we know for a fact players out there have botted. That makes grinding away 500 hours of your life for it far less appealing, especially when other players will look at you suspiciously and wonder if you're a craft bot. We also know they're prepped for season 2 Ishgard, so why bother with that either.

[NamidaTekika]

Square doesn't do anything about many of the gathering bots for example that are on 24/7 running timed node loops/ephemeral harvesting non-stop. You can find these bots and then watch them stay around for MONTHS.

There are for example multiple BLATANT bots on Brynhildr that I and others have reported repeatedly over the course of about 3 months, still active, still going, online 24/7. Ya, thinking Square isn't doing much.