RMT and Banning Buyers

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Originally Posted by Rath

The numbers they post are for a week not a month. This recent topic was for Dec 10-16. The 7 people this time can be for any illicit reason though, not just RMT.

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Exactly. Hence my sceptical thoughts about SE banning buyers. They do not want to risk losing $15 a month. Bots is another story since people will ask questions when X bot remains in the game for several weeks (which already is the case). As far as buyers go, no one knows and I doubt SE does anything since it can not be traced by the community anyway.

here's the problem (and it's the same in crime too): People never think they're going to get caught. They don't factor getting caught into their decision making.

So, going Judge Dredd on them won't really help. On the other hand, if you temp ban first and remove their ill gotten gains... that corrects the perception that one won't get caught. Now they will think about getting caught, and they're much, much less likely to do anything that will get them in trouble.

I know of someone on my server who bought gil once from an off-game website when he returned to the game after a year + of being unsubbed. He didn’t actually know that buying gil was against the rules until he was told by a few people but when he found out, he panicked and gave it away to new players who were struggling (We’ve all been there…), his FC and other people that needed it. Makes me wonder what happened to him, come to think of it.

Bans are bandaids, and it won't make RMT go away - nothing actually will, so it is kinda pointless to try.

What we do need though, and should have had from the start, is better tools to combat them: hide from searches, limiting tells, etc. Things that I think are rather basic and yet aren't implemented, for whatever reason.

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Originally Posted by BreathlessTao

Bans are bandaids, and it won't make RMT go away - nothing actually will, so it is kinda pointless to try.

What we do need though, and should have had from the start, is better tools to combat them: hide from searches, limiting tells, etc. Things that I think are rather basic and yet aren't implemented, for whatever reason.

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The reason is that the Japanese are about a decade and a half behind the west when it comes to programming. They simply do not have the skillset to work with the technologies that a modern MMO requires. Especially when it comes to servers and netcode. There's a reason Japanese fighting games are starting to license GGPO for their netcode.

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Originally Posted by Immut

The reason is that the Japanese are about a decade and a half behind the west when it comes to programming. They simply do not have the skillset to work with the technologies that a modern MMO requires. Especially when it comes to servers and netcode. There's a reason Japanese fighting games are starting to license GGPO for their netcode.

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Lolwut

Anyways, I'm on Chocobo server (2nd most populated server in JP), absolutely no RMT here as far I can see. It's more of a cultural thing, sorry, the west is more vulnerable to these kinds of things.