HOW ABOUT

[Thi]

Meh, most all of these bots are farming gil which is the most worthless main MMO currency in the history of MMOs.

The game gives you gil hand over fist just by playing and once you get to endgame you have plenty of gil to buy whatever cosmetics you want. Plus any gear worth anything is gotten through tomes or raid.

When gil actually impacts gameplay then it might be worth looking into bots and rmt.

[TitanWomen]

THEY BAN THE RMT BOTS
THE BOZJA BOTS
THE PYROS BOTS
THE UNDERCUTTING BOTS
THE PVP SPEEDHACKING BOTS
THE POTD BOTS
THE SAVAGE ACR BOTS
FIRST

Why is no one talking about them LOL?

Imagine chasing after people with a simple UI mod over all these bots that have plagued the game for a decade.

Sweetiepie, come back home….I swear you never pay attention to me, you only pay attention to your job at the forums.

[EagleDynamics]

THEY BAN THE RMT BOTS
THE BOZJA BOTS
THE PYROS BOTS
THE UNDERCUTTING BOTS
THE PVP SPEEDHACKING BOTS
THE POTD BOTS
THE SAVAGE ACR BOTS
FIRST

Why is no one talking about them LOL?

Imagine chasing after people with a simple UI mod over all these bots that have plagued the game for a decade.

bots are good for business. the more bots the more subs for square.

[Stasya]

bots are good for business. the more bots the more subs for square.

Just like wow and wow classic. This business model works very well.

[DixieBellOCE]

THEY BAN THE RMT BOTS
THE BOZJA BOTS
THE PYROS BOTS
THE UNDERCUTTING BOTS
THE PVP SPEEDHACKING BOTS
THE POTD BOTS
THE SAVAGE ACR BOTS
FIRST

Why is no one talking about them LOL?

Imagine chasing after people with a simple UI mod over all these bots that have plagued the game for a decade.

Pyros bots....
1B+ per day enters the economy to be RMT and SQE leaves them active for 6+ months at a time and think a single ban wave solves the problem.

Bots are back at it the next day.

[KageTokage]

Pyros bots....
1B+ per day enters the economy to be RMT and SQE leaves them active for 6+ months at a time and think a single ban wave solves the problem.

Bots are back at it the next day.

The sad thing is that it takes a long enough time for the bots to grind through Eureka or grind up their DoH/L jobs that it's not like they'd even need to be banning them that often to stifle their activity.

They're not instantly replaceable like the ARR gil farmers (Who seem to have fallen out of favor lately).

[Raoabolic]

Bots are back at it the next day.

Hey, those level/story skips won't sell themselves. :^)

[Skiros]

Pyros bots....
1B+ per day enters the economy to be RMT and SQE leaves them active for 6+ months at a time and think a single ban wave solves the problem.

Bots are back at it the next day.

And yet you'll have countless people defending SE because apparently the few thousand bans every week is not just them banning the lowest hanging fruits without ever addressing the root cause.

[DixieBellOCE]

I'm not defending SE I'm explaining how they function. Something with direct evidence is going to get acted on. Seeing a guy in the same gear going on the same route is not direct evidence, it's circumstantial. From SE's point of view, the possibility exists that he's not a bot.

It's also why we have the "rule" that it's ok to use addons as long as you don't say you're doing it in ingame chat.

Is 50+ accounts, all walking on the same tiles, using the same mounts, with the same name structure, active 24 hours a day with no downtime.. obvious enough?

They dont care.

Gotta go ban streamers instead.

[SenorPatty]

THEY BAN THE RMT BOTS
THE BOZJA BOTS
THE PYROS BOTS
THE UNDERCUTTING BOTS
THE PVP SPEEDHACKING BOTS
THE POTD BOTS
THE SAVAGE ACR BOTS
FIRST

Why is no one talking about them LOL?

Imagine chasing after people with a simple UI mod over all these bots that have plagued the game for a decade.

Just ask the bots to stream their content. Then 5ch can go to work on the behalf of the STF and SE can take credit for the bans.