RMT: Time to start banning IP addresses

[Kunihiro]

You are severely underestimating what these guys are capable of.
This isn't a bunch of amateurs that is out to make a statement or make a little extra pocket money.

This is their living, their daily bread and they will do anything to keep their business going.
These guys are capable of programming bots to perform certain actions in this game, they are able to make a program that sends tells to thoudsands of online players, multiple times in a matter of minutes.
And you don't think them capable of doing something as simple as masking their IP addresses?

No I don't think they're capable. It doesn't take much skill to make a bot.

[Shirai]

No I don't think they're capable. It doesn't take much skill to make a bot.

And it takes even less skill to mask or spoof an IP address.

[Kunihiro]

And it takes even less skill to mask or spoof an IP address.

The process of spoofing an IP consists of modifying the source IP in the packet header, a IP that is not the IP you're sending it from. So when the server proceeds to send a response packet to the sender, it doesn't go to the fake sender. You can't play the game only sending packets.

[ReiszRie]

The process of spoofing an IP consists of modifying the source IP in the packet header, a IP that is not the IP you're sending it from. So when the server proceeds to send a response packet to the sender, it doesn't go to the fake sender. You can't play the game only sending packets.

a simple proxy or VPN would do the job of masking your own IP.

[ReiszRie]

No I don't think they're capable. It doesn't take much skill to make a bot.

Well, then you are certainly underestimating them.