Everyone complaining about no action on RMT, please read

[Kosmos992k]

There have been numerous threads in the forums wailing about how SE doesn't do this that or the other about RMT. Although I would agree that there are some simple changes that would help (account wide black list & "report as spam" menu option), it's undeniable that SE are doing something.

Just look at this from the most recent action against RMT topic. Almost 11,000 accounts permanently banned....

Time Period: Mar. 26, 2015 to Apr. 1, 2015
- Accounts receiving disciplinary action for RMT advertising: 2,717
- Accounts receiving disciplinary action for RMT/illicit activity: 8,086
- Action Details: Permanent ban from FINAL FANTASY XIV

- Accounts receiving disciplinary action for participation in RMT/illegal activity: 64
- Action Details: Temporary ban from FINAL FANTASY XIV

Link to full post : http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...e8ebe4f3e86269

If you've been watching these posts over the months you will probably be aware that this is one of the larger ban waves we have seen.

Think about this, in the period of 7 days SE's task force evaluated evidence regarding nearly 11,000 accounts and decided on action. That's about 1500 a day. I'm not sure how many people they have in their task force, but even if there were 100 team members that's 15 accounts per person per day 7 days a week. Given the work needed to properly evaluate the evidence to avoid wrongly banning a legitimate player, as well as justify the account being banned, that's not an inconsiderable workload.

I'm actually pretty sure they don't have a team of 100 people in the task force, the overhead of carrying such a large team would absorb a significant portion of the revenue from FFXIV and take a sizable bite out of the development budget.

So, next time you're complaining about the lack of action, consider the volume of account bans.

[Elusana_Celah]

Yeah and 10,000 new bots have popped up according to reports LOL YAY! Go go gil sellers awaaaaaaaaaaaay!

[Eye_Gore]

The problem there is the 64 accounts that received temp bans, until that changes to permanent bans. You will continue to see these posted every month as they have been doing.

[Gralna]

Yeah and 10,000 new bots have popped up according to reports LOL YAY! Go away gil buyers awaaaaaaaaaaaay!

fixed that for ya, only real way to fix the RMT issue, sadly it'll never happen.

[Cyrus-Wallace]

They are like cockroaches.

[Kosmos992k]

Yeah and 10,000 new bots have popped up according to reports LOL YAY! Go go gil sellers awaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Except SE actually bans bots far, far less often than they ban the other accounts involved since they use the bots to trace the gil to the bankers, transactional accounts and advertizing accounts.

Also, I agree with the statements in some replies about the actions against gil buyers. As long as people think they can get away with a slap on the wrist for buying gil, they will continue to take the risk. Stop gil buyers and you pretty much end RMT, so permanently banning accounts shown to have purchased gil from a gil seller is the only way to go IMHO.

[Eye_Gore]

They are like cockroaches.

Please don't insult the cockroaches.

[ValarianHeartbreaker]

This morning, after logging in, I went and took a quick shower while waiting for the Thanalan topsoil 3 node to spawn, and forgot to put my status to busy...

When I got back about 10 minutes later, I had 17 tells, from about 10 different variants of dadfghda agdgassd.

So yeah, sorry to say TC, but it didn't fix anything. It's like applying a band-aid on someone with a ripped-off arm.

And like others here, I DO blame the BUYERS as much (if not more) than I blame the sellers...

[WHS]

Had an experience yesterday doing main scenario cutscene's where 2 x rmt friend request popped through my cs window and made me see the notice and the chat log. Totally ruined my immersion on the final MS CS. I was pissed. What I want to see happen is a setting for me to turn on and off as I choose to receive friend requests. Also a better way for me to filter out tells. Only these 2 things will I consider SE doing something about it. Nothing else will convince me.

[JimboTCB]

The RMT spammers have started bombarding me with friend requests as soon as I set foot in a city now, which is worse because they're even more annoying to block. Reporting spammers is far too much effort for the vast majority of people to bother with (for the love of God, give me a rightclick->report spam function). And blacklisting people isn't even worth the effort as you rarely get more than a couple from the same person.