Botters already in full swing

[Sirfoxeh]

If you suspect a player or group of players of botting, or if you get messaged in game or see in shout text a Gil sales bot, please use this page to report to the Square-Enix Special Task Force, as they will be handling the investigations of third party websites and bots.

http://support.na.square-enix.com/co...382&la=1&fty=2

[NoEmpathy]

the Square-Enix Special Task Forcehttp://support.na.square-enix.com/co...382&la=1&fty=2

"Special"LOL

[Aurongroove]

luckily if we're paying subscription, they will probably be able to afford small amounts of actual in game policing.

It would be cool seeing a mod using a brass blade or similar as an Avatar and if you report bots just show up and beat the shit out of them.

It would be both RPG and real world justice.

[Kahri]

Saw a different type of mine botting in Central Thanalan. Low lvl node with not much on it so pretty sure it was farming lightning shards.

Char name was H'zhet Tia.

Completely nude besides the pickaxe. Would just appear near a mining node out of nowhere, jump once or twice (later I worked out it needed to as sometimes when it appeared it wasn't standing on the ground), mined, then disappeared. No teleport or return graphic, no running between nodes. Just appear, mine, disappear. Wasn't appearing and disappearing due to d/c - if that were the case it would appear/disappear in the same spot, which was not the case.

And yes, reported it in-game via support desk -> report cheating

[Muser11]

Samw at Cerberus they spam all time, they wisper alltime.. Really annoying. I think all these botteters create the problem because they work with situation like AFK and SE as i understand cant do nothing about it.

[NoEmpathy]

Ah i havnt seen the warping one yet i'll have to keep a eye out when i work on miner 0.o thanks for the heads up

[Reinheart]

They are chinese gilsellers, they don't have any money, or anything to do otherwise. They will sit there and trade shifts while the others go sleep in the same bed that they just got out of to keep those accounts working 24/7 making gil. While they are obviously RMT, SE won't ban them until they do something that verifies that. It isn't against the ToS to sit in a corner for 80 hours straight with level 1 gear on.

What was that about them not using bots? http://www.yukawanet.com/archives/4480818.html (different game I know but just proving that RMT's use software/hardware methods to 'bot')

[Yoshihito]

I used this yesterday on my realm to report the 8 bots in the East Shroud by the Honey yard. I included all 8 of the bot character names, the time, etc. When I checked back a few hours later they were still there. It does not seem that it would e that hard for SE to follow-up on reported bot activity. And as someone posted above, these 8 bots are in effect preventing 8 real customers from playing when the world is full. My gut feel is this is the tip of the iceberg. I think we as a community need to deluge the in-game tickets with these reports every time we see this kind of bot activity.

I know for me personally, I can understand the server issues that SE has had during the launch and will not let those issue affect whether I subscribe or not. But the bots are a different story. If they don't address this quickly I won't be subscribing.

Bots are a different story? They have been in just about every MMO, them and gold spammers. And you know what? They still are! Go to WoW, you will find Bots and Gold Spammers there. Go to TERA, same thing. Go to RIFT. Do you get the picture? Saying you will unsubscribe for something that is completely out of the control of anyone is ridiculous. They can never 100% get rid of them. Sure they can take steps to get rid of some, but they are like a Hydra, you cut off one head and two more grow in it's place. Every game wrestles with these same problems so don't delude yourself that it's only this one and that if they don't fix it you'll quit. It can't be totally fixed and if that's how you feel I would suggest you quit right now, MMO's just aren't for you. lol

[mrmicric]

Here is some multi-box action from Cactuar. We also have some gold spamming.., I'll have to SS it next time I see it.

I attached the links so you can see the video. I don't you tube at the moment.., so had it posted on my nephew's channel.

http://youtu.be/LkX2GPv0bAQ

http://youtu.be/gZZjp_E4rN8

[Theref]

Haven't personally spot botters yet, but had gilsellers spamming my tell.

Wondering how did they got my name