How is the botting situation in this game?

[Jijifli]

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

A whole month? I wish Square would go that fast.

I'd been reporting the same bots for years now in some cases. Mr. gberugbw erbgewg the hyur BLM under the floor does not count, as those I'm pretty sure are just smacked with chargebacks which get your account perma-banned. And even if not, those are so painfully obvious a 3 year old could tell that's not a player.

But gathering bots, crafting bots, market bots, MAP BOTS, etc, those are left free to roam. Interesting once it's an account not likely to use stolen money too that it suddenly take them forever to do anything about it.

[Nepentha]

A whole month? I wish Square would go that fast.

I'd been reporting the same bots for years now in some cases. Mr. gberugbw erbgewg the hyur BLM under the floor does not count, as those I'm pretty sure are just smacked with chargebacks which get your account perma-banned. And even if not, those are so painfully obvious a 3 year old could tell that's not a player.

But gathering bots, crafting bots, market bots, MAP BOTS, etc, those are left free to roam. Interesting once it's an account not likely to use stolen money too that it suddenly take them forever to do anything about it.

I've tracked a gatherer botting ring that literally has a gathering bot FC set up on every NA and EU server. They're so obvious they recycle the same FC names. That's how comfortable they are, knowing they're not going to get banned.

[Kes13a]

I've tracked a gatherer botting ring that literally has a gathering bot FC set up on every NA and EU server. They're so obvious they recycle the same FC names. That's how comfortable they are, knowing they're not going to get banned.

they operate with impunity.

its at the point where I have seen people using bots that have a full stack of 80's. they know they wont get banned so why not?

SE has given up all attempts to control the issue, I think now they are just hoping people dont complain enough OUTSIDE the forums to impact their... "efforts" to control them. might give them a bad reputation or something.

[Nepentha]

they operate with impunity.

its at the point where I have seen people using bots that have a full stack of 80's. they know they wont get banned so why not?

SE has given up all attempts to control the issue, I think now they are just hoping people dont complain enough OUTSIDE the forums to impact their... "efforts" to control them. might give them a bad reputation or something.

Burying their heads in the sand won't work forever. I'm seeing rumblings about this problem everywhere now. Discord servers, Facebook groups, Tumblrs, Twitter. The kindling is there. All it takes is a spark and they are going to have a PR problem on their hands.

[disengaged]

yup. Crafting/MB bots are a pain. I decided to drop prices for exarchic healing gear on my server to find out bots trading floors. floor seems to be at 50k for non jewelry pieces. I got one bot to follow me bellow 30k

I am finally able to sell exarchic gear but at a 30k ish price level because bots stopped following. My profit margin is extremely small at 30k so I stopped crafting altogether. Bad times to be a crafter

[gumas]

A whole month? I wish Square would go that fast.

a whole month last time i check which is mid 2019. yesterday i ask my friends who are active in wow to check the spot and the bot(s) is still there, the very same bots.

off topic a bit but botting in wow is weird for me at least the current botting. these bots that i tell you? they just stand in front off "elite" enemy and when it spawn they kill them. strange thing is they didnt do anything after the enemy die, they didnt loot, they didnt skin, they do nothing, and they have "red bandana" icon (in wow these mean you dont earn exp from whatever you do) so i dont know what purpose these bots do, they literally earn nothing.

on FF14 note, the "red bandana" icon from wow is actually pretty good feature. basically if the game detect you for doing suspicious activity like botting, the game will give these character a "red bandana" icon mean they will not earn exp from killing enemies

i wonder if SE can implement similar system, like the bot will get debuff that make them cant loot anything or such

[Jijifli]

"red bandana" icon from wow is actually pretty good feature. basically if the game detect you for doing suspicious activity like botting, the game will give these character a "red bandana" icon mean they will not earn exp from killing enemies

Are you sure that's not the exp lock feature the game already has?

I know you get a red bandana if you party with someone who's taken that, because Blizzard didn't like the Freehold power leveling parties, as one was getting both legion benefits, and azerite benefits, and staying exp locked so they could solo the entire dungeon ezpz real fast.

[gumas]

Are you sure that's not the exp lock feature the game already has?

I know you get a red bandana if you party with someone who's taken that, because Blizzard didn't like the Freehold power leveling parties, as one was getting both legion benefits, and azerite benefits, and staying exp locked so they could solo the entire dungeon ezpz real fast.

i didnt know wow that deep so i only hover the icon and it more or less said "this character will not gain exp from killing any creatures, to disable this feature please contact *somethingsomethingiforgot*"

thats about it, unless i misunderstood the meaning, it seem pretty cut and clear that character did not gain any exp from whatever he do