How long does it take to remove a BOT

[Fenril7]

I reported an BOT yesterday twice porting around to mining nodes and the same player is at the same spot(s) this afternoon and reported them again.

Why does it take so long to remove these cheaters?

[Merhouse]

it takes them forever basically

for SE to be able to do anything there has to be a log of the person saying "I'm a bot" or "I'm botting" to do anything about it

[Mykll]

Do they ban as they get them (or they prove they are a bot) or do they do a single ban wave once a week just before they send out that ban stats every Thursday morning?

[Eclipse12187]

Generally they’re banned in waves in an attempt to follow the gil/items and hit more bots in the process.

[Kes13a]

unless it is a RMT advertiser or a bot yelling about cheap gil in major cities... dont hold your breath.

FF XIV is considered a "bot friendly game"

you can translate it how you wish, but to all intents and purposes, if you see a bot, chances are, in 6 months or more you can run into it again. SE does not punish outright cheaters unless they are fairly stupid

[VictorTheed]

Am I the only person who doesn't get mad over bots?, I'm not for them or against them, I just don't care bout them.

I know they affect crafters so I get their reasons, but I just laugh when I see the same group of midlander blms in low lvl robes appear at the immortal flames gc.

[Shibi]

Why does it take so long to remove these cheaters?

The GMs don't care about bots. But you could try creating a mass-reporting linkshell and work to entrap them.

[Moonlite]

The GMs don't care about bots. But you could try creating a mass-reporting linkshell and work to entrap them.

I don't like your chance with that either. When they added Ixal dailies the whole zone would report the bots spirit bonding. They didn't disappear until 3.0. People just gave up and MPKed them or messed with them some other way when they were bored.

[MrPresident]

If you mean a bot yelling “buy my Gil on this website!” Then it shouldn’t be too long, although they’ll be immediately replaced by another.

If you mean another player botting, they won’t be. I’ve seen a player who bots gathering since HW and still does it now. Unless they openly admit they’re a bot in the chat, GMs don’t care.

[LaylaTsarra]

My experience with gather bots is they're very hard to get banned. They're really easy to spot and I know I've personally reported them many times. I can only remember being successful with one on Gilgamesh but that sure didn't stop the horde of others. I can only suspect it's gotten a lot worse given i haven't been into gather/sell for awhile.