Botters already in full swing

[Shaddix]

SE won't ban people for just looking like RMT.

[NoEmpathy]

well i mean pppl cussing out other ppl for afking in a city to avoid being locked out.. when really should be cussing about the 20+ botters huddled together sitting in one corner botting for 3 days straight lol and thats just one area that i saw today.. imagine other areas we dont see there could be 100+ on a server who knows 24'/7 its no wonder servers are clogged its not ;players afk thats the problem its ton of botters afk lvling and whisper spamming gold sites that if relieved would help the stress ont he servers greatly

[NoEmpathy]

SE won't ban people for just looking like RMT.

looking like? u show me 10 humans that can stand in a small corner for 72 hrs straight without moving and just hit a mob (only within a certain area) only maybe once per 30sec-min and i'll be in shock and awe at it lmao... its obvious they botting.. or its the most amazing
XIV FLASH MOB EVER!

[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.

[Slynk]

well i mean pppl cussing out other ppl for afking in a city to avoid being locked out.. when really should be cussing about the 20+ botters huddled together sitting in one corner botting for 3 days straight lol and thats just one area that i saw today.. imagine other areas we dont see there could be 100+ on a server who knows 24'/7 its no wonder servers are clogged its not ;players afk thats the problem its ton of botters afk lvling and whisper spamming gold sites that if relieved would help the stress ont he servers greatly

Yeah and the best part is if Square would ban just one of the accounts characters, they'd be locked from making a new character. lol Hooray character creation lock! They also can't purchase a new account key. Hooray locked sales! XD Now to get the GMs moving...

[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.

[NoEmpathy]

Corse se will care about it .. its rather they act and whent hey act and how adeptly they act... i mean they have acted on other games so no reason they wont here but like i said its the when and how that concerns me

[enjid]

Unfortunately I have to agree with you. However, the bot issue, IMHO, is worse for the long term health of the game than the initial server issues. But then again, what do I know.

That sucks no one responded. I'm sure SE has a lot of issues to deal with right now though. It seems SE is very overwhelmed with the response. That tells me there are very few employees in the FFXIV house trying to handle the flood.

[Garnatian]

Considering how versatile the macros are in compared to games like Tera/SWTOR/Rift, I'd say botting is pretty easy.

[superkrill]

Funny how there are so many posts about booting afk people, yet no one wants to have a reporting system for RMTs who spam the game to make money in RL.

i can't see these spam messages if i'm not in the game, can i?