RMTs cloning players.

This is a pretty scary concept to think of. Having your character cloned from skin color to eye design up to a tee. It shocks just what the RMT will do just to spam their advertising. This is a quote from a person of the Adamantoise server on the unofficial FFXIV adamantoise server page. She addresses how the person looks the same but also if you black list the cloned RMT you also end up black listing the ACTUAL PLAYER!! This can be an issue as to FATE parties or Party Finders or hunts, etc. I am also pretty worried of this being reported to GMs because I am afraid if the RMT gets removed that it also removes the original player. Like this person has them copied up to their title and Free Company tag. The only thing is doesn't copy is their clothes and class.

I really hope SE can look into this and step up to prevent this from ever happening!

http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/u...g?t=1456298969

http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/u...g?t=1456299030

http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/u...g?t=1456299052

and this is the OP's original quote

Hey guys. I'm just posting here to familiarize people on a RMT exploit that's been spreading slowly the past few weeks involving CLONED PLAYERS. If you BLACKLIST the RMT/cloned player, it will also BLACKLIST the real player preventing you from being able to communicate with them. Cloned players appear as level 0 adventurers with nothing equipped but share the same name, title and FC tag as the original player from the time of cloning. So if you see this behavior, report it to the GMs and try to refrain from blacklisting innocent folks.

Same story on this thread:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...s-and-names%21

oh thank you. I did a search and couldn't find a post for this so I made my own.

this is pretty sccary, i hope its among the issues they are taking care of in the current maint

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Originally Posted by Kukajoo

this is pretty sccary, i hope its among the issues they are taking care of in the current maint

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they had a maintence for it in certian cities the other week :P

How did that even happen? o.O
Isn't it impossible to create a character with the same name on the same server? How did someone manage to become Level 0 when the game starts you off as Level 1?
The RMT they spam is the smallest issue there o,O

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Originally Posted by Atoli

How did that even happen? o.O
Isn't it impossible to create a character with the same name on the same server? How did someone manage to become Level 0 when the game starts you off as Level 1?
The RMT they spam is the smallest issue there o,O

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Its a character that is being injected to the game before it ever starts up and skips the initial instance. Its level 0 because it hasn't actually spawned into the game.

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Originally Posted by Atoli

How did that even happen? o.O
Isn't it impossible to create a character with the same name on the same server? How did someone manage to become Level 0 when the game starts you off as Level 1?
The RMT they spam is the smallest issue there o,O

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While I don't have a clue how these RMT did it, I AM certain these characters weren't created using a normal in game character creation method.

@Decoy_Wolff you should edit your images to blank out the chat, you might get the ban hammer since by posting theses images you end-up promoting the RMT site .

God.. Those screenshots scare me. Thats nuts!

seriously why the fawk can't these RMT's get the hint we don't wanna buy their stolen gil or items?! there's a good system setup so we can earn it the safe way! And shame on all of you for even considering usign them!.

That is how they get you you try buying from them you get gil if you lucky then few days later you don't have an account because they hacked it to get back the gil and guess what your now paying hackers to sell gil on your account using your name your items,gil and all that other stuff you worked so hard for...

it's gone now your gonna have to start all over from scratch do all those quests again maybe buy a new copy of game and expansion all because you were too lazy to work for your gil and items the right way.

Saw this on reddit when it first was reported. It has me freaked the heck out.

so these rmt this exsploit...

lets say your raiding with someone and that person gets really super annoyed at you somehow finds out how to do this then be you say tones of hateful things to all people on server and log off withing the min to not appear on player search to make it look like the real person said it.

so this issue is far worse potentioal than just rmt.

Holy crap, this is a thing? It's a pretty scummy thing to do, especially with how RMTers get dealt with. SE really should see what part of the code that the RMTs have accessed and see about re-encrypting it before a bunch of innocent people get taken down with the bots.

The bottom screenshot is old, are the top ones taken after the maintenance?