Quote Originally Posted by LamiaTrucido View Post
The game appears to be GM-free, just let us know so we can all be on the same page as the cheaters.
I don't get why people think this, as thousands have been banned already. I can't find the link, but it showed how many players got banned a month from FFXI, and it sometimes got in the tens of thousands a month. They also said it wasn't instant, for obvious reasons of false reports, etc, but if FFXIV has anything in common with XI, it's probably going to be this. Square isn't afraid of the ban-hammer.

Blizzard devs posted a while back (again, don't have link handy) where they talked about how toxic even one person botting is, and how it affects way more players than just the botter, so they are quite aggressive with them. The problem is, even with how many people Blizz has, there are even more botters coming up with new ways to do it. Just be happy nodes aren't free for all, and every one gets their own, plus these bots are so easy to spot and report.