Botters already in full swing

[Studybreak]

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.

[felter]

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.

True enough, but in the long run if you don't ban and get rid of the bots, you will loose more paying customers than the botters you didn't ban, so they actually cost you more monthly fees than you will ever make from them. I know I have left games due to them not taking action against botters, and if there is one person leaving due to this, then there is bound to be more, lots more.

[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.