question for GM's

[Sarick]

/cheers /clap

LOL >>>
LM-69 Your account and characters have been transferred to the Chaos server pending further investigation. We apologize for this inconvenience.

[Secondplanet]

Here is a fun pic to show everyone, if this doesn't seem a tad bit suspicious then what would?



Was gonna buy this item for shifts and giggles but this is what smacked me in the face.

[Nawesemo]

Lol, someone paid a rediculous amount for a pearl body on cerebrus..... But yeah, some people exploit others laziness....

[Mirage]

The AH is full of obscure, outdated gear that is sold for ridiculous amounts of gil. I've been noticing this quite often the last few weeks, just looking at random items on ffxiah.com. Typically, the items are all very slow sales, usually less than one sale every couple of months, but then suddenly you have three people buying them for 10 millions, and their names are always some keyboardslam-like name.

I'm sure SE is aware of these anomalities, though. I can't imagine it being hard to detect with automated scripts/programs/whatever.

And @ Scribble, before you go out and call it lazy to use automated detection of RMT-like behavior, please try to make an estimate of how many transactions there are in this game, over all servers, per day. I'll give it a try too, and I'm gonna say "something like a few hundred thousands a day". Are you seriously expecting SE to monitor these manually? If they did, our monthly subscription would be in the hundreds, not $12.95. It is unrealistic for any big MMO to not use automatic detection of bot/rmt-like behavior. Sometimes these will produce false positives, but it is a lot easier to manually fix these false positives than it is to hire hundreds of employees to stare at transaction logs 24/7.

[Scribble]

And @ Scribble, before you go out and call it lazy to use automated detection of RMT-like behavior, please try to make an estimate of how many transactions there are in this game, over all servers, per day.

I should've been more clear about my situation. My account was compromised. I contacted support within a matter of days and my account was still automatically suspended two weeks later. They were made aware of the situation and still their bot auto-banned me. That is lazy.

Are you seriously expecting SE to monitor these manually? If they did, our monthly subscription would be in the hundreds, not $12.95.

That shit doesn't fly over my hood...

There are F2P games that have staff to review suspension or ban in those games so no, it's not asking too much. The fact that XI is a service that you pay for means you should have more attention spent on things like this. I never suggested they have someone comb through every single transaction, all day, every day and on every server. It's clear that they have a system in place that flags accounts for what they would consider to be suspicious activity. I don't think it's too much to ask that they assign a non-bot to investigate these specific cases.

You don't find ironic and maybe a little hypocritical that SE created a script to combat players using scripts?
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[Nawesemo]

I should've been more clear about my situation. My account was compromised. I contacted support within a matter of days and my account was still automatically suspended two weeks later. They were made aware of the situation and still their bot auto-banned me. That is lazy.


That shit doesn't fly over my hood...

There are F2P games that have staff to review suspension or ban in those games so no, it's not asking too much. The fact that XI is a service that you pay for means you should have more attention spent on things like this. I never suggested they have someone comb through every single transaction, all day, every day and on every server. It's clear that they have a system in place that flags accounts for what they would consider to be suspicious activity. I don't think it's too much to ask that they assign a non-bot to investigate these specific cases.

You don't find ironic and maybe a little hypocritical that SE created a script to combat players using scripts?
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I think I agree except for that last part, .... For me, to say that is like taking firearms from police... It's their world, we ask em to police it, if they dont use the tools that the bad guys use, they are asking for a e-thwomping..... But i think i agree with the rest, and if you were legit, a casualty caught in the crossfire..... Lol one of our tarus was temp banned for shouting naruto spoilers in jeuno(im sure previous violations played in the decision,),.....this is still s.e. were talking about. Yes, auto banning without a person looking at each flagged transaction is a little lazy in my book, but i think they do look now, for what its worth.

[Annahya]

The AH is full of obscure, outdated gear that is sold for ridiculous amounts of gil. I've been noticing this quite often the last few weeks, just looking at random items on ffxiah.com. Typically, the items are all very slow sales, usually less than one sale every couple of months, but then suddenly you have three people buying them for 10 millions, and their names are always some keyboardslam-like name.

I'm sure SE is aware of these anomalities, though. I can't imagine it being hard to detect with automated scripts/programs/whatever.

On Bismarck, I have been seeing a good number of people with Onion Weapons in their Bazaar for tens of millions of gil, wandering about the Port Sandy MH. I am not sure if this is the same thing that is happening with RMT at the AH, but that was the first thing that came to mind when I saw it.

[Secondplanet]

One time while fishing i saw a person with /anon and 4 lu shangs in their bazaar and it wasn't like the had them at 99999~ it was at what they cost to buy of AH and they were fishing up more moat carps in perfect timing each time only catching moat carps.

I filed the paperwork to send to the STF and even did a GM call, person was there for the next 3 weeks fishing non-stop. Eventually that person went away i guess and then a new person was fishing with 5 lu shangs.

just like the fishing bots that fish up trumpet shells to make trumpet rings to NPC. I've seen in jeuno people synthing these for hours, never once buying any of AH. i counted once a person made over 500 in one day. now that person doesn't do it anymore but runs to a new person who does...... yeah STF at work again.

[Riggs]

wow that's some amount of frozen gil, if anyone from the special task force is on i'de be happy to get rid of some of that gil for you

[Sarick]

I saw 3 alliances in Vunk A the other day near the rabbits/puk using 9 blms reverse chaining. All the BLMs where leaders for the parties in the alliances. The others where NUDE /anon Galka sitting all stacked up near the cave.

I'm sure anyone even SE with an inkling of understanding can clearly see beyond a shadow of a doubt these people are crurer farming and converting it into gil.

One of the funny things I recalled was 2 names that caught my attention. In one allince the Leader was ****** in the Next alliance the lead character was named "******" I guess he was the pimp.

I doubt these guys will have any action taken on them because the same player or group pays for at least 18 accounts. If this RMT like activity is multiplied on all servers well, you get the idea.

Don't believe us go to Vunk Inlet do a /search count the anons with the funky names. Only idiots would assume these are legitimate players when they farm 24/7 and create trains of bots buying/selling YOU KNOW WHAT.

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