Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Tiggy]

Please read what I said. I never insinuated they will or won't do anything or how effective or ineffective they've been. Simply pointing out that OBVIOUSLY they are aware of the problem.

Here is a reality for you. They are less than two months from releasing their expansion that has a hard dead line. RMT is a problem, yes, but anyone with expectations of serious change before the 3.0 launch are quite honestly going to remain disappointed. Delaying the expansion pack release just to move resources to the RMT problem would lose them more money than simply waiting until 3.0 to deal with the RMT. Getting the expansion out with as few issues as possible has considerably higher priority and is definitely the wiser business decision. Nothing will change until after 3.0 launches and stabilizes. This thread could get to 500 pages and that reality will not change. There are only but so many developers working on this game.

It's also an unsupportable argument to suggest they've done nothing up until now. Was it ultimately very effective? No, but they HAVE done things to improve it. Specifically off the top of my head I know they've incorporated a degree of text filtering and throttled tell rates. That qualifies as something regardless of how effective it was. You can objectively say they haven't been successful in the long term at curbing RMT (They've had occasional short term successes until RMT adapted), but you can not objectively say they haven't tried. The evidence simply doesn't support such a claim.

At some point you are just mad and being negative regardless of the accuracy of the claim.