Everyone complaining about no action on RMT, please read

[Wobble]

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


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

It's on the Internet and so it must be true.

[Red_Wolf]

Re-post:

There's a lot of SE apologists in this forum. What you all don't realize is tell spam is virtually gone from most MMOs. Trion, Blizzard, SOE, etc... all have filters in place and proper blacklists. You do not receive SPAM in-game while trying to play and communicate. Gold sellers are reduced to sending in-game mails which are also usually blocked.

So... No... SE hasn't really done anything. It's very disappointing for a game of this size.

[KodiHivaer]

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


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


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

^ That's a report that's given almost every month, let alone there's TEMPORARY bans, so that's not really solving the problem.

There are games (TERA, Vindictus, Blade and Soul) that impose IP bans for other territories because most RMT come from there.
Other companies like Trion, Blizzard, ANet have filters and report buttons on hand for players to prevent such things.

FFXIV with over 3million players or so STILL can't seem to get a grasp on how to handle RMT

[Gramul]

They do this every month or so.
Yet the problem persists and grows.

This isn't a viable long term solution.

[Conradus]

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.

You do know you can configure your chat window to just not show you tells, right?

[Cikala]

Unfortunately as long as SE continues to think their reactive-only approach is going to work and they do nothing proactive, this problem will continue to grow and will never get better. It would actually be better if they did nothing, as they are wasting a large amount of time and resources going about it this way.

[Kosmos992k]

^ That's a report that's given almost every month, let alone there's TEMPORARY bans, so that's not really solving the problem.

No, a new report is given weekly, this just happens to be the most recent one.

There are 64 temp bans and almost 11,000 permanent account bans, so how are temp bans the issue here?

Tell you what, go and look at the last 6 months of weekly reports and add up the number of accounts banned. Then come back and we'll talk about the scale of the issue and how much SE can/cannot do. Just for fun, add up the temp bans as well, the number is relatively miniscule compared to the permanent bans.

Also, the bans are *account* not character bans, suggesting that the number of affected characters could be far higher.

[Eye_Gore]

There are 64 temp bans and almost 11,000 permanent account bans, so how are temp bans the issue here?

Those are most likely the buyers. No buyers, no sellers. No sense trying to sell something that no one buys.

[Riepah]

They could add a zero or two to that report to make it look better.

[Kosmos992k]

Those are most likely the buyers. No buyers, no sellers. No sense trying to sell something that no one buys.

I could not agree more. Personally I don't think that permanent bans are the most effective way to punish the buyers, I'd like them to do something that causes more pain to the player caught with their hands in the cookie jar. I still believe that de-levelling all characters on their account by dropping all their classes to level 1 and forfeiting the amount of gil that they purchased (or all their gil if they have less left than they purchased) would be one way of handling it since it would force the player to re-invest the time in leveling their classes again giving them time to think about their offense. That's for first time offenders, second time offenders I would ban outright. If they won't do that, then simply permaban the accounts of buyers.