How Gil Sellers / Buyers are doing business (SE Please Track and Do Something)

[Maxipep]

Take off your tinfoil hat and go have a look at the Lodestone where every month SE is banning hundreds of accounts for RMT. Sellers and buyers both.

You seriously think SE kiss goodbye 100's of subscriptions each month. You are deluded. The banned accounts are the ones advertising Gil sellers, they just keep coming back with new names.

[TheCurls]

You seriously think SE kiss goodbye 100's of subscriptions each month. You are deluded. The banned accounts are the ones advertising Gil sellers, they just keep coming back with new names.

You clearly didn't do what the first 5 words of my reply said to do.

[Maxipep]

You clearly have no concept of reality. If you seriously think any business would throw away nearly £50,000 a month of subscriptions maybe you should try to reconnect with the real world.

[TheCurls]

You clearly have no concept of reality. If you seriously think any business would throw away nearly £50,000 a month of subscriptions maybe you should try to reconnect with the real world.

I'm not going to argue with you. You're free to believe what you want. I, however, have faith that SE cares more about the hundreds of thousands of subscribers that very vocally despise RMT than a couple hundred subscribers that constitute the RMT population.

Anyway, happy gaming.

[Maxipep]

I am just as a vocal about RMT as the next person if not more. Why do you think GM's don't even have the power to remove obvious Gil sellers, the ones who are at market places sometimes for days on end. If SE were serious about this type of thing don't you think their security team (which by all accounts consists of about 5 people) would just take a look at the market places every now and then and remove the offending avatars. It's not rocket science. Maybe you should do a bit more research before you start replying with your arrogant "take off your tinfoil hat" comments.

[BristolRuss]

SE cares more about the hundreds of thousands of subscribers that very vocally despise RMT than a couple hundred subscribers that constitute the RMT population.

Anyway, happy gaming.

It's more than just a "couple hundred" though. This is a link to the free companies on the Moogle server, sorted by size. Scroll down until you hit the FC's with 97 members. There are 3 that stand out. Take a look at the members in those FC's. Then scroll down a bit more until you hit 73 members. Same again. In those 6 FC's there are 510 quite obvious bot characters. And that is just on Moogle alone. Now, for example, imagine every server has at least 510 bots on it. That is 32,640 characters. At £8.99/$14.99 per month that works out to be £293,434/$489,274 per month. While not every bot is necessarily linked to RMT, a hell of a lot are. And to ban all of those accounts would be a real big loss of income.