Quote Originally Posted by gumas View Post
i always feel like SE is actually doing something about bots but cant keep up with how fast the bots keep appearing, and it gotten worse now that the game pretty much F2P all the way until HW expansion.

at least its not as bad as wow bots, i have seen this bots in certain area, took screenshot of it, report it and go do my own things, month later i check back and the bots are still there, same name, the very same bots still doing the same thing for a whole month and now there is 4 of them
The only type of bot I've noticed much of a decrease in are the teleporting gil farmers, as I used to regularly see upwards of 100 on my server alone, but now it's rare to see more then a dozen. The DoL/H bots have just been getting more and more plentiful as time goes on, though.

WoW also used to be a lot more prudent about banning bots prior to the Activision buyout (They unsurprisingly laid off most of the customer service employees to reduce expenses); to such an extent I could typically get one banned in just a day or two of back and forth communication with the GMs.