Quote Originally Posted by Velhart View Post
FFXI is a lot more tame than it was years ago. Back then gil sellers were botting and stealing HNM's and NM's from Sky and other areas, while at the same time, destroying the economy by drastically raising the value of items and taking inflation to a point that 90% of players could not afford anything. Thankfully, SE -eventually- did something about it.
I wonder if this is why what little effort SE is putting towards combating RMT is so single-mindedly focused on the economic effects of it. They're ignoring the far more direct and pervasive harassment almost entirely.

Somehow we need to convince them that the first priority has to be stopping the spam. That's the easy part that they should have already taken care of and haven't. Just getting that part of the problem taken care of would remove the harassment that's driving players away from the game. It would also have a secondary benefit in reducing the economic impact of the RMT itself, because without in-game ads there would be fewer RMT buyers, but the harassment relief would be immediate.