Quote Originally Posted by Remilia_Nightfall View Post
It is funny how the ONLY intelligent (and possible) solution to this issue would be most likely shunned by most of the playerbase.

Allow players to buy Gil legally, directly from SE.

Yes, it would be a "pay to win" system. Yes, people would hate it. Yes, RMT would disappear.

Other games implemented this quite successfully already, like EVE Online.
Are you admitting to being a Gil Buyer then?

No game has ever implemented this and not have the bots/RMT take advantage of it. And you're in some alternate reality if you think they don't. Archeage tried this, and the RMT just commit a lot credit card fraud to sell it to players, then they turn around and launder the gold so they turn around and sell the gold back to the players too. That's how it works every single time.

If you want to see the end to bots, the technology for it was used back in the 80's, called a "hardware dongle" to prevent piracy. Back then the DRM was just some trivial to crack code on the dongle that could just be emulated, since there was no online component. Put a 4$ crypto processor on a NFC card or USB stick and all forms of account theft go away since the game won't connect without the device present. Then to raise the axe on RMT, you only send these cards paired to their accounts, and don't send them to places like China where RMT comes from. Ta-da RMT solved. Or at least it makes it so risky, inconvenient and expensive to do RMT.

But hey we could get half way there already by requiring authenticators on all accounts. This does nothing to prevent RMT from just running authenticator emulators, but it slows down the process so much that "spamming" becomes inefficient.