Materia: Pyros bot army has increased upto 40+ now.. will the devs ever actually care

[gotaname1]

In before they ban you for "harrasment" or "misusing the report function".

Hey, gotta protect the true valuable 'customers' (the bots) right?

[Raoabolic]

Hey, gotta protect the true valuable 'customers' (the bots) right?

I mean, sure they are paying with stolen credit cards and using loopholes to get accounts and boosts cheap but they ARE paying SE. :^)

[SigrunGaramonde]

Logged in at 6am NZT this morning and there were 20 bots in Pagos.

[Jijifli]

I mean, sure they are paying with stolen credit cards and using loopholes to get accounts and boosts cheap but they ARE paying SE. :^)

The stolen cards would get chargebacked, which is an automatic perma ban by the system.

A lot of the bots have been active for a LONG time, some of them I noted I've seen for years doing other activities with their botting before. If it's stolen money, that's a LOT of money someone isn't paying attention to. So, more likely, it is actual 'legit' money, it's just that they profit more than lose since Square won't do anything about it.

[DixieBellOCE]

Logged in at 6am NZT this morning and there were 20 bots in Pagos.

Yep the bots moved from Pyros to pagos now, seems they are botting bunny fates and selling the hakutaku eyes on the MB of their respective servers.

They move where the profit is.


One of the Pagos bots (The 4 bards and 4 white mages) was active the other day and started spamming 'China Number 1' in shout chat, then proceeded to bring his bot army upto Cassie and kill cassie lmao.

[Meowdyj]

Bump for all that's holy.

[KageTokage]

No matter how many times you guys rant about Eureka bot problem and demand to remove the bunny fate from Eureka, sure it might get rid of bots from Eureka but the bots just move to other high gil gain content and yet again be massive problem for players.

So if you guys really want get rid of bots completely, then go and tell FFXIV devs to remove gil currency completely and get rid of ability to trade items between players also, but then this something what many of players don't want to happen and it could cause most players quit playing FFXIV completely.

They were originally farming treasure maps, which is not actively preventing people from doing content properly. Stop speaking in absolutes like there's no reasonable way to deal with this without negatively impacting actual players to a significant degree.

The "simplest" method would be to just start banning them because it's not like they can instantly replace them as they could with the ARR gil farmers, but if they refuse to go through with that, axing the gil from bunny FATEs would be the most logical course of action because the devs have already expressed a dislike of how much gil is coming into the economy and the bunny FATEs are a big outlier in that regard, so they'd be killing two birds with one stone.

[DragonFlyy]

Pyros bot army has increased upto 40+ now.. will the devs ever actually care

Why would they start caring now? This has been a problem for a long time.

[Corrupted]

Why would they start caring now? This has been a problem for a long time.

The bot problem as a whole? yeah, they're slowly & ineffectively chipping away at them.
However, the eureka bots weren't as bad in ShB, I've done a few relics there it was nowhere near this bad. You could still join and see 2-3 players in the same instance and that was it

These days, you can never enter an instance without seeing bots and if you somehow get into a fresh one 5mins in and they come in groups.

All in all, like KageTokage said they're affecting the bulk of eureka now with pagos being the light step and in pyros as well being a bit lengthy. Seen a few in Hydatos sometimes, but at least it's not super dead there.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Seen a few in Hydatos sometimes, but at least it's not super dead there.

Am I understanding this correctly? Do you mean there's actually bots in Hydatos bunnies, too? o.O