Botters already in full swing

[LionKing]

Why would SE care about botters?? each of them is paying a monthly fee so why would they get rid of them? Clearly they don't reinvest the $ in upgraded servers. Absolutely terrible RE-launch.

For 3 reasons:

1/ There are more legit players out there than botters. However, as they see SE takes no actions against any botters. They will sooner or later leave the game because they don't want to pay to play with botters 24 hours over 7 days. SE loses more money.
2/ The game Economic crash. All these Gil Bot Seller and with those Botters grinding for item, sooner or later, the whole market will be manipulated by those who control the Bot. If it is free to play, I may think some people will keep playing because they lose nothing. But FF 14 is the type of Pay to Play, and people don't want to spend their money where it is not worth, they will leave eventually. Again SE will lose more money than they thought if no action was taken.
3/ Server Clogged up. It is happening and I don't know how many percentage in there that is Botter,Gil Bot Seller but I can be once for sure, if this keep happening during a long period of time, people will leave. SE loses even more money

On top of Money, they also lose their reputation for being incompetent and in the future, no one want to play any of their game again because they know SE is not as competent as it sounds.

So Yes, SE should be worry about these Botters.

[Nin-Lil-izi]

Just as long as they don't do what they did too XI.
Where they nerfed all the fun ways to make a living. Leaving combat as the only functional persuit. Then mass banning anybody who still enjoyed spending all their time trying to fish / farm / craft rather than grinding the endless stream of blue crabs. Just because its the only way to be sure.
The punative anti-rmt measures in XI drove away more previously happy players than any other factor that remains in my memory.

I used to love the fishing mechanism so much I'd just spend 4 hours a day pulling out moat carp... Then suddenly you could only pull out half a dozen fish in a day before it would just not let you catch more. Not even enough to outlast a single cup of tea.

[NoEmpathy]

well im sure they can find a happy medium or a good detection system to get rid of the botters and the gold spam botters i mean there are already bots out for lvling/crafting/spamming/everything lol and when u combine pc/ps3 playing together seems only ppl who will not catch a weird eye will be the ps3 players

[Sneaky-Bear]

Yep, I'm also on Faerie and seen on multiple occasions people botting. In areas where people think where they won't find them and some blatantly out in the open.

[HaydenAshar]

is there even a report button. i looked for one and couldent find it

[h0UNd]

I submitted a report for what can only be described as botting behaviour (unless someone has another explanation). I watched a player in Central Thanalan, Stonesthrow mine a wall for the last 3 days - I was stocking up on Copper Ore. The 'player' hit two or three times without repositioning and then just disappeared - no not teleport, just fade away. I thought it was connection issues, but when I logged off I was unable to get back in, so I started to have my doubts. So I went over and watched it for a while - the 'dissapearing' was regular.

[NoEmpathy]

if u go to the menu then over to support desk theres a report cheating button to report people... but im sure boting isnt 1st on their priority list or even getting a 2nd look right now =-/

[HaydenAshar]

true. got alot of issues going on. but couldent hurt to build there list for when they get to it

[NoEmpathy]

true. got alot of issues going on. but couldent hurt to build there list for when they get to it

yea i mean if enough people take the time to report im sure they will look at it.. but untill then those of us who can should report every type of bot they see including the spam botters hilarious that they even have one that whispers everyone on a entire server ... 1 botter entire server not just people in their area

[Ryuko]

Botters, or at least sellers, exist on Hyperion. I saw my first shout spam tonight. The dude was relentless. Normally I'm not so inclined to block someone, but I just couldn't take this guy's spamming anymore... so I went into my inn instead.