Bot problem getting worse on Dynamis

[Luluya]

This morning there was a 90+ queue to get into Marilith, which would usually indicate the DC crashing or something similiar but upon asking around as well as seeing the usual legitimate players playtime undisrupted it was clear something else was up.

I then looked into novice network and there were more bots than legitimate players on the sprout side of novice network, and I'm sure you can imagine based off that what the player search for sprouts/archers/bards looked like.

Another example was just a few days ago when I saw a constant stream of countless (yes, I couldn't count them as there were many stacked on top of each other too) bots going 'through' the Central Shroud area 'Naked Rock'. Through as in, they were literally going through the ground and the rock like some kind of incorporeal phantom.

[Stormpeaks]

There's about 150 to 200 bots in New gridania alone on any dynamis world at any time of day, all of them under the floor and flying around all over the place, it's a complete joke really, you can see them when you search players in New gridania.

Maybe SE should stop posting their fake ban reports every 2 weeks and actually start doing real bans for the millions flying lalas that are there every day.

[Bacent]

There's about 150 to 200 bots in New gridania alone on any dynamis world at any time of day, all of them under the floor and flying around all over the place, it's a complete joke really, you can see them when you search players in New gridania.

Maybe SE should stop posting their fake ban reports every 2 weeks and actually start doing real bans for the millions flying lalas that are there every day.

You assume they're fake reports. That could get them in big trouble.

They're legitimate reports, just in the time they ban X amount of accounts, X+Y more accounts have been made.

They basically make lists of them all and then do a huge ban wave all at once in an attempt to be more 'efficient' in banning them, but honestly I'd like it if they had some GMs logged in in popular out of bounds areas that bots go in and for them to start banning them that way too.

[MAJRIS]

Maybe the reports are only JP datacenter?

[Kes13a]

clearly, real or not, their ban numbers are not having any effect.

they need to take off the kid gloves and ban the buyers. no buyers, no demand. as long as there is real money to be made, the bots will be here.

as it stands now, they only post numbers to show they are doing something. so they could be fake, what difference does it make? because the bots in game... are getting out of control.

[Oizen]

Square Enix doesn't care about bots and encourages botting in general I find.

Marilith is pretty overrun with bots, I've reported them and less than nothing happens.

[Thurmnmurmn]

Square Enix doesn't care about bots and encourages botting in general I find.

Marilith is pretty overrun with bots, I've reported them and less than nothing happens.

Saying they don't care is one thing but encourages??? Care to explain.

Cuz if they encouraged it, they wouldn't have ban reports posted.

This isn't me saying bots aren't a problem. I'm just not the person that cares enough to come up with a solution.

[PetThisMiqo]

I have never seen such bots and I doubt they exist. Even if they do I doubt they're harming your gaming experience. This is just another complaint thread made for the purpose of complaining and attacking Square Enix.

[Jojoya]

You assume they're fake reports. That could get them in big trouble.

They're legitimate reports, just in the time they ban X amount of accounts, X+Y more accounts have been made.

They basically make lists of them all and then do a huge ban wave all at once in an attempt to be more 'efficient' in banning them, but honestly I'd like it if they had some GMs logged in in popular out of bounds areas that bots go in and for them to start banning them that way too.

Yet as you point out, new bot accounts are constantly set up to replace the ones banned.

That would only waste GM time that could be used to work on tickets submitted by players who need assistance.

Personally I liked the death traps they were using in Shadowbringers. It was fun listening to the lala death "wah"s as I passed by the locations with traps. But then if SE brought them back, we'd probably return to the days of flying bot trains.

[Ravenblade1979]

I mean a fix would be to have auto teleport to gm jail if your character ends up somewhere it's not supposed to be like under the map lol