Alex Supply and Salvage Cheating- Accounts Not Banned?

[dasva]

Lol after 4 months of investigation they say that they are certain my other account is an RMT despite the fact that it hasn't done anything except solo or with my other accounts in over a year. And there only solution to find out the details and talk to someone in the know is to log in and contact a GM in game <.<. And of course I had to contact them several times since they'd never email me back. And this is despite the fact that 2 months ago they said they were giving me a roll back. It's things like this that make people wonder about SE customer service

So here is a character that made maybe 10-20 mil a month that only plays with other characters I own and it's permabanned as an RMT. But people who made hundreds of millions thru hacks that's totally ok.

And to top it off I was even told if I want to still play ffxiv I could buy the game and play but I might get banned for association... when they clearly haven't even looked into the association of the accounts I would've supposedly been rmting with

[VoiceMemo]

I wish SE would publicize their Special Task Force more. I found this page by randomly exploring POL's website

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/rule/specialtask.html

Though dunno which is scarier, the entire 8/14 month had more gil removed as 1 year removal from 2008-2009

[Malithar]

I'm more curious what was going on in July of 09 when they banned 31,630 accounts in a single month, over a thousand accounts a day. <_<

Never seen that page, thanks for the link.

[Shirai]

I'm more curious what was going on in July of 09 when they banned 31,630 accounts in a single month, over a thousand accounts a day. <_<

Most of the banned accounts there were free trial accounts that were advertising for RMT sites.
2008~2009 were particularly bad.

[dasva]

I'm rather curious about February thru march of this year... 31 billion in those months alone but not really that many people

[Shirai]

Not a clue, I was on an extended break myself during that period.
That is a lot of gil compared to the number of accounts indeed. Google comes up dry as well for that period.

[Comeatmebro]

buffer overflows allowing for generation of essentially anything

[Malithar]

Most of the banned accounts there were free trial accounts that were advertising for RMT sites.
2008~2009 were particularly bad.

I used the free trial account when I came back in '11. I guess I should of known they didn't have the foresight to limit trials until something like that happened, then they made trials absolutely terrible. XD No trading, no /telling unless you were told first, no inviting, no yelling or shouting. Urg. It was terrible trying to get back to Gusgen for GoV if I died, chasing down random people in Sandy using /say to get a port lol.

[Shirai]

Back then there were no restrictions on the trial accounts, at all!
RMT were able to send spam advertisements to every single online player on the server in minutes, and with an endless supply of characters and a lot of different websites spamming there were days where you got a tell about every 2 minutes.
Absolutely maddening.

Although I must say that the tells started to take hillarious formats when S-E (and the Windower team) started implementing filters.
Expert level Rebus puzzles were created to try and get the message through without triggering the filter.

[dasva]

buffer overflows allowing for generation of essentially anything

Oh yeah I heard about that. Surprised it wasn't more than