Has Square Enix given up on countering RMT and botting?

[Larirawiel]

Honestly at this point I'm ready to believe they aren't doing the most they can because bots still have to pay for a license and subscription. Lost Ark is free.

Ney. It is not that easy to detect bots programmatically without many false-positives. And you want to avoid many false-positives at all costs because this are regular customers who did nothing wrong. I do not know how the bot detection in FF14 works. But i have surely some ideas how to improve it. Provided those mechanisms are not already in the game.


Cheers

[LianaThorne]

Ney. It is not that easy to detect bots programmatically without many false-positives. And you want to avoid many false-positives at all costs because this are regular customers who did nothing wrong. I do not know how the bot detection in FF14 works. But i have surely some ideas how to improve it. Provided those mechanisms are not already in the game.


Cheers

From what I've *heard* (so take it with a grain of salt), there are mechanisms to trap bots and make it more visible but I don't have any specifics on what. Just what I was told from someone else who actually got a GM out to investigate a bot they noticed.