Why is "Report Cheating" still disabled in in-game Support Desk?

[Jojoya]

I'm sorry, I might be misunderstanding something here. You wish to report a player for cheating, because they're farming FATEs (playing the game?) for bicolour gemstone vouchers they can sell on MB? You have any evidence this player is selling their gil in exchange for real currency?

For that matter, do you even know they're selling the vouchers? How do you know they're not working toward the Fallen Angel Wings?

If they've been farming gemstones since the expansion release, they easily could have purchased the wings by now.

That's not to say that the player must be engaging in RMT. I know a few players that genuinely enjoy FATE farming though they focus on getting the achievement FATEs spawned across all Crystal worlds so others can get their achievements and rewards.

But there are also bot groups that are gemstone farming for RMT (evidently is more lucrative than Eureka bunny FATEs and treasure maps). If the player the OP is referring to is doing it as a part of a consistent group, I'd be suspicious too. If they're doing the FATEs solo, then it's unlikely it's anything nefarious. Going solo would be too slow for RMT purposes.

I'm always curious when people claim someone is doing an activity 24/7. Do they not sleep themselves so they can stalk their target's every move? It would be hard to get BIS gear and Ultimate Weapons if they're doing FATEs 24/7. You can't buy those with gemstones.

This game’s economy died long ago

Consequence of poor gil sinks and ways to avoid what should be more effective gil sinks entirely.

[ZiraZ]

I'm always curious when people claim someone is doing an activity 24/7. Do they not sleep themselves so they can stalk their target's every move? It would be hard to get BIS gear and Ultimate Weapons if they're doing FATEs 24/7. You can't buy those with gemstones.

All you need to do is visit the same nodes at different times of the day over a long period of time to start noticing names, I still gather nodes for expert crafts since they sell for a ton and I can bet a gil cap there I will find x and y gathering no matter what, on the dot, precisely arriving always at the same second the node spawns.
I can go in the morning, during lunch, after lunch, after dinner, middle of the night, never precisely at a specific timed node of the day, and there they are x and y doing their thing. I can stop doing this for a month and then go back and there is still gonna be x and y, still farming.
Or maybe it's all a huge coincidence and we are timeline shifting beings that always happen to sync and merge our closed timelike loop on the same nodes.

[Rolder50]

Should post a gif of them (name removed of course) to judge. Usually bots are pretty easy to spot based on their movements and mannerisms.

[HikariKurosawa]

because square enix doesn't care about cheating. game is only worth playing if you're a cheater so they don't want to lose all their subbies

[Boblawblah]

because square enix doesn't care about cheating. game is only worth playing if you're a cheater so they don't want to lose all their subbies

When does your sub run out?

[Thurmnmurmn]

When does your sub run out?

No, no. Don't you understand. This is clearly constructive criticism.
/s

[HikariKurosawa]

No, no. Don't you understand. This is clearly constructive criticism.
/s

I mean it's good for people to know what they are getting into: a cheater's haven. plenty of bad players love to cheat so it's good for them to know they have a place to belong.

[hynaku]

It's easy to tell if they are a bot. They accept all party invites. I had a friend go invite bunch of bots into his party and took then into a dungeon and let them keep on dying. Later he got angry whisper from the owner of the bots. Then he reported them. Another give away they will be doing actions when is shows they are AFK.

[Avoidy]

I'm saying this as someone who's frustrated by this sort of thing as well but also wants to save you the mental bandwidth of trying: CBU3 doesn't care and you're wasting your time even trying to notify them. I watched the same guy casually bot around an open world spot I used to frequent. He did this for months. Probably still does. I left, so idk. There's a small town of lalafell bots under Limsa on just about every world. In Ul'dah when Shadowbringers launched, there were bots just standing in piles at every town exit, blocked from exiting by congestion. Dozens of default male midlanders with gibberish names just standing in piles of their copies for hours with 0 GM intervention. There's apparently some guy who's well known in the pvp community for just openly cheating in matches. Everyone knows his name and he's been doing it for years. Still here. Some guy made a thread here on these forums with nothing but links to botting websites so interested players could purchase their very own botting services and it stayed up for nearly two days even though I reported it the moment it appeared just to see how long it'd take. Hell, the people buying a bunch of gil aren't even afraid of their account being banned because they know 99.99% of the time the only one in danger is the mule account that handed over the money. CBU3 literally taking the least effective methods to stop RMT, almost like they don't mind it since they're all paying subs anyway. They don't care. So, just find a way to block it out if you can. Maybe one day the bots will cause enough people to unsubscribe for their presence to finally be considered a net loss for the game's revenue. On that day, we'll see them finally start setting up easy in game reporting systems, bans on both the RMT seller and the customer, and other super basic common sense approaches that any game run by people with common sense has implemented ages ago.

Also shout out to this thread's replies for once again getting hung up on some minor detail of the post instead of the far more important fact that if you wanna report RMT in game using the most intuitive option, it just tells you that you can't do it. The guy OP wants to report shouldn't even matter in this conversation. It's stupid that there isn't a decent right click->report function in this game. Even maplestory managed to do this and that game was cobbled together in like 2006.

[ZiraZ]

It's easy to tell if they are a bot. They accept all party invites. I had a friend go invite bunch of bots into his party and took then into a dungeon and let them keep on dying. Later he got angry whisper from the owner of the bots. Then he reported them. Another give away they will be doing actions when is shows they are AFK.

All the ones I highly suspect are bots have do not disturb on at all times so you can't do anything.