Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
The trouble with bots are that no matter what SE tries to implement to defeat them, the bot makers and their users will always find a way around it, it's a zero sum game. Worse, countermeasures SE may implement often just end up negatively impacting legitimate players and the bots still continue unabated..
The thing is. in a decent game system you don't need massive amounts of anti cheat or countermeasures or whatever in the first place. all you really needs is to be more visible and pro active about the botters / cheaters.

If a game bans 50,000 bots today, and 50,000 more next week, and 50,000 more the week after. and they're visibly transparent about it, they'll drastically reduce the problem very very quickly.. because it'd create a visibly strong deterrent that the risk of a ban is very real... and that will be enough to put many players off... even if they didn't caught themselves. if they knew people who did it'd be enough to make them think twice about continuing because they won't wantto be in the next 50,000 who get banned.

As it stands in XIV though many of the people using bots and other things are visibly quite blatent about it because there's next to no risk of any action ever being taken against them. and then when players see how so many other players get away with it. they then think well why arent i doing that... and all that does it make the problem worse...