Small window into the state of botting

[Vahlnir]

Bots are to be expected, especially in an MMO as popular as this one. The main issue is that the task force meant to take care of these things is laughably small. Like, no more than a few people. There's no way they can handle all these reports in a timely fashion. That force needs to be expanded if they are ever going to get a handle on this situation, or RMT.

[DigbyCaesar]

The forces of darkness say this is a troll thread.

What part of this thread gives you that impression? o.O

Bots are to be expected, especially in an MMO as popular as this one. The main issue is that the task force meant to take care of these things is laughably small. Like, no more than a few people. There's no way they can handle all these reports in a timely fashion. That force needs to be expanded if they are ever going to get a handle on this situation, or RMT.

And they can either increase the STF (because yes, they literally have only 5 people as of EW) or have something proactive in place, many games have systems that are designed to confuse bots and don't effect players at all (literally known as a honeypot), or have a system that goes through event logs and flag unusual behaviour (such as players who have managed to remain online and never AFK for like 2 full weeks).

[Jijifli]

What part of this thread gives you that impression? o.O

Probably to do with how any time bots get brought up, people just assume "LOL THEY BANNED LIKE 5K LAST WEEK OBV TROLL" knowing full well how their reports specificly split things up and show that the only things ever getting smacked are the lowest of hanging fruits my little cousin could probably clean up.

FFXIV is a very bot friendly game. The absolute lack of numbers (and, potentially effort) from the task force have made that pretty clear and easy.