Do you think SE will do something about cheaters?Follow

Hello my fellow FFXIV players,

just like many peoples in the endgame community I cleared the content a while ago, I know it's not hard and a decent group with enough time spent will kill Twintania.

What puzzled me for a while was how the hell all these peoples got their hands on i95 weapons!

I was really curious about how some peoples that struggled with Titan HM (and still do, actually) could kill Twintania! There's no FC doing T5 carries on my server so that was out of the picture.

Turns out it's still incredibly easy to "hack" it away using various 3rd party softwares (bots, or simple teleport hacks), and SE has done absolutely nothing about it so far!

We've seen some random guy talking about "friend of a friend who got in a party with cheaters but it wasn't me don't hate me blablabla" not too long ago, let's take it up a notch with a video this time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oHbRG8RKUI

As you can see it's not rocket science. Enter the area however the @#%^ you want, get past the cutscene, teleport with a single click and start nuking.

Hardest part: you need a ranged class, yeah it's that hard.

Whatever you think will happen during this fight DOESN'T! If Twintania can't reach you, she does absolutely nothing!

Conflagration/fireball? Nope.
Divebombs? Nope.
Big explosion? Nope.
Enrage timer? Nope.

Nothing will happen during the fight, it's just going to sit there, get nuked to death and you get your loots.

I'm posting this sh*t to raise awareness, I think it's really time for SE to do something about it!

As I type this, I know of one botter (and i'm not talking about some chinese dude here) running Wanderer's Palace over and over with 4 accounts and generating over 3M gils (he's bragging about 4/5, so let's say 3 ;)) everyday!

This specific bot has profiles that makes your party leader register for a dungeon, you 4 bots enter, teleport to a specific spot and nuke everything > teleport to next spot > nuke everything... You don't need any tanking or healing, you teleport mid-air and are never take any damage.

Every server has a small community of botters, right now botting smart is so safe with SE doing abso-@#%^ing-lutely nothing that people gather in botting Free Companies or Linkshells, they don't even have to hide from each others or anything because NOTHING is done against it. One of these FC brought a large house last week like that, think about it.

Now feel free to do whatever you want, spread the word or downvote this to oblivion, but think about it the next time some mouth breather with Twin's weapon ruins your party.

To be fair this is what every efficient company does, except they would just use their own program/bot to locate bot activity, not to take action obviously.

theres a reason SE has to be very delicate with this.

Firstly, SE will NOT have any video proof other than a bunch of numbers to look at when someone is hacking/botting. So it is entirely possible that a legit player may get banned for no reason.

How can this happen you ask? simple. Glitches happen all the time. It is very possible someone accidentally moves into a position they are not allowed to be in. so banning people who are simply not where they are supposed to be may get real players banned. Fortunately SE is not going to fight a war against bots where the collateral damage is real players.

The only way they will catch these people is by having a GM ready to watch the fight of anyone who attempts Twintania at any time of the day. Unfortunately that costs too much money. The only thing that will catch these people, is reporting them for suspicious activity. Sure that doesn't seem to work sometimes, if at all, but it's better than nothing.

I realize it may seem "Square does nothing about bots", but I don't want to see real players get hurt, and neither does anyone else. That person could be you, and I already know you would get pissed off if it was. They are doing what they can without hurting us. In the end one of 2 things will happen to those people. They will get banned, or get bored and quit because the game won't be rewarding. It's only a matter of time.

I think you misunderstood. SE's stance on botting and hacking is reactionary instead of preventative. The spill is just a metaphor for the problem getting out of control. They have the tools to clean up the mess, but they don't look at things that would prevent it from happening in the first place.

When you drive to work with your coffee or tea, you don't set it on the dash and just bring a roll of paper towels because you know it will spill. You do things like not overfilling your cup, using a lid if you do fill it and using a cup holder to keep it from shifting around. The focus needs to shift to the front end where the root of the problems are.

Many players of both XI and XIV have been wrongfully suspended and banned. I would also point out that many mechanics of both games have been implemented or adjusted in a way that they impact normal players just as much, if not more than bots.

Not suggesting at all that they get more aggressive, just that they do more to prevent the problems. It's pretty well known that suspending and banning accounts does almost nothing to thwart RMT. "Oh noes I'm bant. Nao I gotta wait a whole day before I can start making the IRL gils. Hao sad

Sure, true.

Remember when Scorpion Harnesses were 16,000,000g in FFXI?

I do.

That was the RMT's Heyday in FFXI, where there were bots everywhere. SE did banning wave after banning wave banning the RMT and their bots and it did nothing.

Then, they turned the banhammers on the gil BUYERS.

Wouldn't you know it, a few months later, Scorpion Harnesses were down to 50,000g and other prices went down in a similar fashion?

Sure, RMT people don't care if their farmbots get banned. Regular players, however, don't want their 500+ hour /played accounts banned.

Remember when Scorpion Harnesses were 16,000,000g in FFXI?

I do.

That was the RMT's Heyday in FFXI, where there were bots everywhere. SE did banning wave after banning wave banning the RMT and their bots and it did nothing.

Then, they turned the banhammers on the gil BUYERS.

Wouldn't you know it, a few months later, Scorpion Harnesses were down to 50,000g and other prices went down in a similar fashion?

Sure, RMT people don't care if their farmbots get banned. Regular players, however, don't want their 500+ hour /played accounts banned.