Has Square Enix given up on countering RMT and botting?

[DigbyCaesar]

Oh cool! A thread I can respond to. I reported the same bots in multiple zones roughly every day for 6 months. Terrible random letter names, obviously identifiable repeated route pathing, same rotation for hours on end, Only one job at 80/90 but every single crafting/gathering job maxed out...

They are still there. FFXIV can say they ban RMT/botters, but I know for a FACT that this is not true. I've reported an unfathomable number of bots and they are all still there, gathering, every single day. Every single one. I've provided photos. I've provided video footage. Nothing is working.

The RMT announcements where they announce the numbers are absolutely inflated and are a lie that a large majority of players are falling for. I'm not saying they don't ban people because I think people that get reported in mass for rmt chat spamming get banned, but gathering botters definitely are not getting banned when I report them every single day for half a year.

This is what gets to me too. They show these large numbers which tbh, are likely true, but people fixate on the "9,000 players banned" part but not realise that those are only RMT advertisers which is what it specifically says on their banwaves.

Their actual ban count for people botting is almost nil. I posted a breakdown of their reported bans and suspensions for botting earlier in this thread, but it doesn't hurt to put it back in (suspended players in parenthesis):

03/03/22 - 4(4)
24/02/22 - 0(0)
17/02/22 - 0(2)
10/02/22 - 0(10)
03/02/22 - 0(4)
27/01/22 - 0(0)
20/01/22 - 0(3)
13/01/22 - 1(2)
06/01/22 - 0(12)
23/12/21- 0(7)

The part that hurts the most about those figures, is that this is for every data centre.