Everyone complaining about no action on RMT, please read

[Gralna]

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Trial accounts can't send any tells, can't shout, can't join a FC, and can't send friend invites. Free trial/returning accounts are only vaguely impacting RMT spam in that RMT increase their presence during comeback weekends in hopes people coming back will buy their gil to "catch up".

Also as i stated earlier, some accounts they use are hacked, but majority are accounts they bought with stolen credit card info.

While I'm not trying to defend SE, they are very much aware of the RMT problem since it is cutting into their budget due to charge-back fees on said stolen credit cards. The fact is though that the team responsible for the problem is too small if the 3 person team information is correct. I don't blame the dev team for not getting ahead of this, I blame SE for not giving them the resources they need to stay ahead of RMT.

[Kosmos992k]

Trial accounts can't send any tells, can't shout, can't join a FC, and can't send friend invites. Free trial accounts are only vaguely impacting RMT spam in that RMT increase their presence during comeback weekends in hopes people coming back will buy their gil to "catch up".

Also as i stated earlier, some accounts they use are hacked, but majority are accounts they bought with stolen credit card info.

While I'm not trying to defend SE, they are very much aware of the RMT problem since it is cutting into their budget due to charge-back fees on said stolen credit cards. The fact is though that the team responsible for the problem is too small if the 3 person team information is correct. I don't blame the dev team for not getting ahead of this, I blame SE for not giving them the resources they need to stay ahead of RMT.

Thanks, I knew that (about free trial) but completely forgot... ::senior moment::

Accounts purchased with stolen card numbers would have to be the largest source of accounts given the number being banned over time. Sorry to have missed that point in my previous post.

As far as the Dev team is concerned, I am not sure how much time it would take really to add a report as spam option, nor how much time it would take to make blacklists account wide. As a software developer, I find it hard to believe either would require a lot of work to implement. giving more resource to the task force would be a good idea, but if they do that, then I'd like to see them start perma-banning players who buy gil, since they would have the extra resource needed to properly investigate.