My friend was hacked while logged in

[Blarp]

Judging by some forums, PLAYERS in general can actually do quite a lot. XI wasn't 'nearly ruined' by RMT until SE started banning them and IP blocking and they retaliated. I get what you were trying to say but SE took care of the situation in XI fine in terms of RMT, but it was ruined by Players using hacks and mods to "make the game playable."

Did you play XI? The economy was at a point where legit players couldn't afford to buy anything because RMT completely ran the show. Leaping Boots were like 2 million gil. O. Kote were like 8 million gil. On top of that, you had to deal with claim bots. RMT screwed that game up big time for a good while. Either way, it doesn't really matter. This situation is pretty insane, and trying to make excuses for SE is foolish.

[Amberion]

Did you play XI? The economy was at a point where legit players couldn't afford to buy anything because RMT completely ran the show. Leaping Boots were like 2 million gil. O. Kote were like 8 million gil. On top of that, you had to deal with claim bots. RMT screwed that game up big time for a good while. Either way, it doesn't really matter. This situation is pretty insane, and trying to make excuses for SE is foolish.

Nah, that was more because of Rusty Cap fishing. And legit players where doing that.

[Tupsi]

Did you play XI?

Yep, still do actually - The only time the economy got screwed up was in 2005 when they sold 1 million gil per $1. That hurt the economy for awhile but players basically requiring you to use Fill mode and clipper which hurt the actual gameplay because they can Pos hack, run through walls and flee to almost every NM (and players, end-game specifically used claim bots too, remember Nasa and its drama?) and such inside and outside of Abyssea (when it got really widely used) was more detrimental to the game than what the RMT did to it. Which is why I said I get what you meant but SE took care of the RMT situation in XI just fine, meaning they'll get a handle on it here, but players ruined XI much more than RMT did.

Rusty Fishing was done by everyone in the know how, also, the Tavanazian Panty resell? Yeah that wasn't RMT. No one is making excuses for SE but simply saying it's not just RMT hurting these games and at the least SE will handle the RMT situation and hopefully quick.

[Yurikitty]

Did you play XI? The economy was at a point where legit players couldn't afford to buy anything because RMT completely ran the show. Leaping Boots were like 2 million gil. O. Kote were like 8 million gil. On top of that, you had to deal with claim bots. RMT screwed that game up big time for a good while. Either way, it doesn't really matter. This situation is pretty insane, and trying to make excuses for SE is foolish.

Its entirely possible that the server Ez played on was hit worse than the server Tupsi played on. I know on Titan we got rocked pretty hard by the RMT market crash. It got so bad that no one could afford anything. Three very bad months ensued. I have to say though, this "hack" is way worse than anything I have ever encountered on any other MMO, besides Ragnarok which I played way back in 2000. For something like this to even happen...