Goldseller Party invite

[Laurima]

Trial accounts cannot invite people to a party.

pretty sure since seeing someone on trial on the novice network ask them to party 2 trials up so they could run a dungeon together.

RMT does pay for accounts.

think it's been ever since they severely limited the free trial options which used to include /tell /shout /invite to party.

[Niwashi]

think it's been ever since they severely limited the free trial options which used to include /tell /shout /invite to party.

Free trial accounts were never able to use /tell or /shout. (I'm not sure about /invite.) The RMT companies used paid accounts for /tell spam until the reporting feature was added that gave us a chance to get them banned too fast to be worth the cost of replacing. (They use free trial accounts for the /say spam, though. For that, it doesn't matter as much how fast they get banned, since they can be replaced without the cost.)

Further back, they used to use Friend requests (in somewhat the manner they're using /invite now). That was only popular with them when it was possible to be done with Free Trial accounts, but pretty much went away when SE changed the Free Trial rules to block sending Friend requests.

Now that the reporting change means they don't want to waste their paid accounts on /tell spam, they're using them for stuff that's harder to report (and therefore less likely to get reported). I'm not entirely sure why they decided on /invite rather than the Friend requests they used to use (since now either would require paid accounts), but maybe they decided it's more useful when they get through to be in a party with their customer than to be Friended.