Quote Originally Posted by BreathlessTao View Post
Bans are bandaids, and it won't make RMT go away - nothing actually will, so it is kinda pointless to try.

What we do need though, and should have had from the start, is better tools to combat them: hide from searches, limiting tells, etc. Things that I think are rather basic and yet aren't implemented, for whatever reason.
The reason is that the Japanese are about a decade and a half behind the west when it comes to programming. They simply do not have the skillset to work with the technologies that a modern MMO requires. Especially when it comes to servers and netcode. There's a reason Japanese fighting games are starting to license GGPO for their netcode.