How is the botting situation in this game?

[Kyrj]

I'm almost positive SE doesn't care about the bots, and before the "AcTuAlLy" people arrive, sure they may be doing...something but for the life of me I can't figure out what. Whatever it is SE is doing it's clearly not working and they don't seem to be acknowledging that their steps are useless and sad or acknowledge that the bots are a problem.

Hell even the bots in WoW don't openly cheat as bad as the bots in this game.

[Jijifli]

I'm almost positive SE doesn't care about the bots, and before the "AcTuAlLy" people arrive, sure they may be doing...something but for the life of me I can't figure out what. Whatever it is SE is doing it's clearly not working and they don't seem to be acknowledging that their steps are useless and sad or acknowledge that the bots are a problem.

Pretty sure the ones they mention every week or two on the lodestone are just accounts that had a chargeback. It seems if a player is actually paying money for the sub, then nothing seems to get done unless there's enough people screaming about it at the same time (Like, that one who posted on the forums how his bot was ruined by a retainer and they spent 7m on fish, even that took 2 weeks to actually have action taken.)

Hell even the bots in WoW don't openly cheat as bad as the bots in this game.

Though I will say WoW's is really bad, and really public too. Though, I'll note that they haven't shown much advancement in methods, while ffxiv's getting to the point where there's bot map parties, which is horribly bad because even gathering bots still only take other player's money via selling, while map bots actually generate millions into the economy.

Granted that's something they'd done before, but those ones are chargeback'd level 50 ones, vs now where it's 80's generating in a run like 400k per bot, in raw.

[Nepentha]

I'm almost positive SE doesn't care about the bots, and before the "AcTuAlLy" people arrive, sure they may be doing...something but for the life of me I can't figure out what. Whatever it is SE is doing it's clearly not working and they don't seem to be acknowledging that their steps are useless and sad or acknowledge that the bots are a problem.

Hell even the bots in WoW don't openly cheat as bad as the bots in this game.

At this point, the only things that will possibly motivate them are people unsubbing (unlikely) or bad publicity (more likely the longer this goes on and the louder people get).