The poor RMT's...

[Mirage]

I see some crazy transactions in the auction house that look like gil delivery. It will be one item that is normally selling at an established price and all the sudden you see it going for an insanely high amount from the same retainer repeatedly. Also STF is posting regular reports on the amount of accounts banned/gil removed, at the lodestone. Most recent report was this week.

I've seen them use this method in FFXI too, over the past year.

[Beltor]

I see some crazy transactions in the auction house that look like gil delivery. It will be one item that is normally selling at an established price and all the sudden you see it going for an insanely high amount from the same retainer repeatedly. Also STF is posting regular reports on the amount of accounts banned/gil removed, at the lodestone. Most recent report was this week.

This may also be someone transfering gil between their alts. One alt sells and the other alt buys for the amount to transfer.

[ZakarnRosewood]

Not nearly the same thing. You pay for cable, aka the service of bringing TV channels to your TV, not for the channels themselves. If you do pay specifically for certain TV channels, they usually do not show advertisements. Sort of like how you pay for internet access but still have to deal with advertisements on free news sites, but don't need to deal with advertisements on web pages or services you pay to use. FFXIV is one of those you pay for.

Fair enough. I knew it as a bit of a bad example. But it does illustrate a difference. On TV you get commercials, they are endorsements of the television stations you watch. This is how you get to watch these shows for the low cost of the cable subscription. They are legitimate commercials.

RMT's are not legitimate endorsements of an MMO. they are parasites that survived off the host MMO by siphoning legitimate sources of income out of the economy to turn around and sell it back to the consumers as a real life cost. None of this transfer of real money is seen by the MMO company. They do not get a cent. It in turn throws the in game balanced economy into turmoil because they have accounted for growth and decline from within their legitimate system.

I do understand what is going on with RMT's to some extent, while i'm no expert I do try to make light of some peoples posts. Like the "drug dealer" analogy I left on page two. The point of my OP was to show people that, yes, SE is doing something about RMT's. This situation is far more complex than any simple solution we think up on the forums and it is in Dev's best interest to solve it.

You can complain because you are a single person irritated by RMT's. Look at it from the MMO Developer's point of view. They have to mitigate the RMT activity (no small feat in itself), they have to deal with hacked accounts, they have to deal with 100's of thousands of customer complaints, they have to deal with not-so-nice suggestions on how to fix it, they have to deal with RMT's corrupting their economy, they have to deal with RMT's hacking and cheating in the game, and probably even more that I am not taking into account. You think RMT's annoy YOU?

And the MMO will get the brunt of the hate because OTHER people choose to hack, cheat, and do underhanded deals to make a profit off someone elses back. Where is the hate for the RMT? Can we start flooding their sites with this vitriol instead of adding to the Headache that the MMO devs already have with this unwanted situation?

[sasakusaku]

They'll be back at it in a less than a day or two: hacking people's accounts is the usual method to earn gil. That and botting which is apparently hyper easy to do in this game.

Unless SE regulates gil themselves or some other proven method; we will never see RMTers go away.

Banning only slows them down a bit, they more than likely have piles and piles of CD keys kicking around. The RMTers I saw last night are now selling them....

[Reinheart]

Banning only slows them down a bit, they more than likely have piles and piles of CD keys kicking around. The RMTers I saw last night are now selling CD keys....

Or that could of been a way they try to get you to look at their malware infested website to add keylogger into your PC and take over your account

[Roez]

There are still a ton of bots on Malboro. Now it's not simply ruining the market and taking the lions share of sales away from legit players, they are blatantly farming mobs openly. Anything related to weaving is a prime target, with most areas having at least 2 or 3 bots running full time, if not more. They warp right on top of the mobs nearly instantly, all over.

In the good days past in some MMO's if you saw someone farming, you could leave them alone, and farm your own stuff. It was relaxing. Now, it's a bit more pressured to tag things first. Bots and the RMT don't care who you are, they want their money, and they will ruin a game irregardless. This goes for those who buy RMT and snuff it off as harmless.

[Roez]

I've seen them use this method in FFXI too, over the past year.

It's an old method, and the reason Blizzard put a 1 hour delivery in game on market sales many years ago. This allowed Blizzard to catch transactions by methods unkonwn, though I'm sure it didn't stop the practice completely.

I will say though I never saw many bots in wow and generally whatever they did there, they found a way to do it right. FFXIV is infested, yet I sitll think Guild Wars II was worse. The market in GW2 tanked crazy fast, and you could literally find places where 25 bots were farming easily. At least the market on my FFXIV server has allowed me to make some gil and sell farmed stuff reasonably well.

[Zaels]

RMT is not illegal. Being against the ToS is not the same thing as being illegal by the law of the state.

And chinese RMT do not have other options, it isn't like they are Americans who actually have opportunities. If they don't play the whole time they are awake, they won't have a meal or a place to sleep at night. You need to educate yourself before saying things like this.

If stealing other people's accounts and compromising their personal information is what it takes for them to eat and sleep, screw them. I don't care if they starve.

[sasakusaku]

FFXIV is infested, yet I sitll think Guild Wars II was worse.

To their credit, Anet has more or less eliminated botters and RMTers from the game. It was bad for sure but I have not actually seen a bot nor a gold spammer in GW2 in a loooong time. Maybe they hide better? I dunno. They still went to the effort to get rid of these leeches and by the looks of things actually succeed.

[Colyo]

RMT gold prices going up, that means they're losing stock.

Bravo, SE! Burn the bastards out!