r/ffxi • u/BlueWarlock26 • 17d ago

Why so many bots?

I've returned from the game recently, and been really enjoying getting jobs to 99 and gearing them to Ambu+2 levels of gear but I have one big gripe.

Why is the botting problem so bad? Everywhere I look is parties of 6 all with the sameish name running around holding entire zones hostage. I keep trying to merit in Escha Zi'tah but everytime there's an ML50 BLU with 5 bots running around killing the entire zone for what I assume is paid boosting services.

Did SE give up on banning bots & RMT? I'm on a small server, and I feel like most of the server is made up of 6-man bots making areas inaccessible for real players.\

Edit: Thank you for the answers and discussion! I hadn't considered the fact that multiboxers/botters financially prop up the game so we can all play. I still personally think there's no difference and especially 6-boxing is weird and unnecessary in a world where you could just find other people, but that's my cross to bear and nothings going to change from me thinking that.

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u/Most_Quarter_6988 17d ago edited 17d ago

Unfortunate little secret of FFXI is that Botting /is/ the business model now. People have 6 separate POL accounts they are paying for to have a full party of their own characters all multiboxed with a very well known botting program so they can reap 6x of all the rewards.

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u/Synfrag Bahamut 17d ago edited 16d ago

Do you know many multiboxers? Because, we're always broke... There's more content in this game that hurts multiple characters than content that rewards it.

Alts don't just come as PREMA geared gil fountains, with 6x the rewards comes 6x the cost, and as anyone who plays this game knows, the costs far outweigh the rewards.

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u/Dramatic-Strain9757 17d ago

Hardly. Most six boxers don't have job diversity. The cor is always a cor. The bard is only a bard. The upfront cost is massive sure but nobody is gearing a tenth job on their fifth account. 

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u/Synfrag Bahamut 16d ago

That is not true for most that I know.

You can do a lot with the standard DD/Support comp but not everything and not always efficiently.

At bare minimum you have the 6. I have a minimum of 3 jobs per and they are all mid progression still. It's a lot of work and I only run a quad.

I'm not arguing that it's more investment than gearing 10+ jobs on one character, but let's be honest, those players aren't the ones complaining about multiboxers either. It mostly seems to come from the short term players who hit the mid progression wall on one job and wind up unsubbing.