SE Banning players with large amounts of gil?

[Eight]

This is a bad way to do it. I really don't understand why they can't just have reps in the world banning botters who are gathering stuff like shards. They are so clearly in the open and not only that just ban the entire account and any associated characters tied to that account. Some on my server have been teleport hacking for weeks now and still going.

Seriously put reps in each city and you'll clear out so many gil spammers. Ban them and their alts on the account in no time they will accomplish more.

[DanteMog]

A lot of people do not read the ToS in mmo's, it clearly states they can ban you for any reason they deem necessary, they don't even need a reason, yes its sucks but its the ToS we all agreed too.

Also a blanket suspension makes sense to freeze the funds being transferred across the RMT characters, yes some so called civilians will be caught in the cross fire but its to help the server over a whole which i respect SE for doing i wish more MMO companies would have the balls to do this imo..

Also at least two people in this chat admitted to making money by scamming the Auction house early and Auction house flipping for their own gains, while technically not against the ToS i still personally see it as exploiting the economy its morally wrong and in my opinion deserves a ban as much as RMT does there is very little difference in my eyes..

And selling runs to Dungeons seriously those people/scammers need to go.

[Kahlyn]

Yeah I 100% Agree with you. I love this game and I love Square Enix as a whole, I am just ranting and raving because my weekend was ruined. I need to take a chill pill and hope that something good comes out of this >.<

So, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but if you're talking about your character on Gilgamesh - not only were you suspended, but you were also hacked. Your name is in my blacklist, and the only people who get in my blacklist are RMT spammers.

So, that might be why you got hit

[Hagito]

I'm glad they are throwing the ban hammer on suspicious accounts, I don't think they just ban you because of having 1, 2, 5, or even 10 mil. they probably ban whoever got 1m+ from one/two trades, some sell runs which I'd suspect could be investigated to see if they indeed purchased gil or just sold a run to get that amount of money.

This will stop the gil buyers, ban the bots, the sellers and the buyers, then FFXIV will be a happy RMT free place ñ.ñ

Selling runs is completely valid and should not be punished, it is a way to sell in-game services, just like repairs or crafting, you "rent" experienced players to do X or Y tasks. Yes the prices for titan are crazy but heh, it is still a valid option for those with the coin for that.

Note that it is partially impossible to simply hack someone, once someone tries to access your account, it will lock the account if it is out of the range of IPs. So I don't know how exactly they access your accounts without you getting an e-mail warning you about it.

[dontcare]

Also at least two people in this chat admitted to making money by scamming the Auction house early and Auction house flipping for their own gains, while technically not against the ToS i still personally see it as exploiting the economy its morally wrong and in my opinion deserves a ban as much as RMT does there is very little difference in my eyes..

How you personally feel about it is completely irrelevant. They did not break any rules and therefore should not be punished, period.

[ventlus]

I'm glad they are throwing the ban hammer on suspicious accounts, I don't think they just ban you because of having 1, 2, 5, or even 10 mil.

This will stop the gil buyers, ban the bots, the sellers and the buyers, then FFXIV will be a happy RMT free place ñ.ñ

so if you get banned randomly because you worked really hard to get to 50 of a craft with full materia in all the slots which cost a crap ton. Then your able to sell 2 star items which are worth alot as their the best items before alligan. You happy that they are getting flagged for no reason, and have to sit their over the weekend?

At least in FFXI the people most of the time where using time where using exploits or something like that to deserve the bans. If SE wants to have a living economy this isn't the way to go about doing it, as anyone that wants to play the economy will just be banned for being smart

[GiseleValkyrie]

TBH this is honestly what happens when they let this rmt issue last so long i honestly do not agree with the way the are handling this when they let it fester for so long. I hope the people who got banned who didn't rmt get back on free my friend god wrongfully banned and unbanned later so I am sure you all might aswell.

[Hagito]

so if you get banned randomly because you worked really hard to get to 50 of a craft with full materia in all the slots which cost a crap ton. Then your able to sell 2 star items which are worth alot as their the best items before alligan. You happy that they are getting flagged for no reason, and have to sit their over the weekend?

At least in FFXI the people most of the time where using time where using exploits or something like that to deserve the bans. If SE wants to have a living economy this isn't the way to go about doing it, as anyone that wants to play the economy will just be banned for being smart

No QQ, I said investigate. Keyword. It's something SE does for sure before banning someone.

[ventlus]

No QQ, I said investigate. Keyword. It's something SE does for sure before banning someone.

so if you get investigated for 3 days which is a temp ban. would you be happy, even though you haven't done anything wrong. Because if i was getting investigated when i pay money to play this game, and i have 3 days taken away from me while they investigate i would be pretty upset.

[Reiia]

So crafters who made a fortune from being the first on their servers to sell relics are screwed.
Anyone who saw a sinoidal pattern of certain items on market bought low and sold high (weekend prices ^ weekday price are low) and make a killing are suspended.

Well this is just spiffy ain't it.

Well i guess lazy people are safe and those who actually work and find way to make gil without resorting to RMT is penalized... while it seems like (at least on reddit) quite a few gil buyers are gloating and laughing at SE blanket suspending innocents.

Just wow. =\