rants about rmt, gm's and the new stats requirement

[Machi_Machiavelli]

They aren't going to block a source of revenue. They ban the bots only for them to buy the game again and resub. They also couldn't boast their high player base numbers if they permanently got rid of the botters and rmt peddlers.

[Lunavi]

They aren't going to block a source of revenue. They ban the bots only for them to buy the game again and resub. They also couldn't boast their high player base numbers if they permanently got rid of the botters and rmt peddlers.

The bots does not "buy" the game though, they use stolen credit card information which leads to refunds.

[Aramina]

im not blaming everything on the game but common things called LOGIC would actualyl to kick me out of queue and send the next in line in my place and so on. im ot in the group or abandoning my duty. im just not able to do it at the moment the queue procs.

irl >video games.

lemme ask you a question for good measure because obviously your anser tends to show you didnt have kids or someone else took care of them:

you feed your kids... he goes to sleep or so he pretends to and throws up the food he hasnt digested....

A- let him gag on his vomit to not miss queue?
B- miss the queue and make sure you kid doesnt choke in his food?

thats just one of the bazillions possibilites of having kids and irl issues

It takes 3 times before you incur the penalty. If you are having to go afk that frequently, maybe stop queueing when it is around the time your baby may need something. Yes, there will be emergencies, but as a parent myself... I can 100% guarantee that feeds and diaper changes are rarely random.

[Doki]

Banning the credit card won't work. Most RMT places use corporate credit card systems. You can generate a new card number linked to your account pretty quickly. Also, I'm sure SE would rather get paid those huge amounts of 1 month subs every month that they can legit ban and keep the cash rather than prevent altogether. Of course there's also just using stolen CCs.
Can't ban the IP, they just use VPN to get around that.
Could ban names like Askdjla Jsdijal but then they'd just start taking up names you might want.

What could they do to fix it for real?
Hire a team of 10 to 12 people paid minimum wage, 4 people to an 8 hour shift. Have them log into the game, and go to each city on each server. Easily identify RMT people blatantly breaking the rules. Ban them. Rotate through each server throughout your 8 hour shift. This is by far the most profitable property SE has right now. If they can't afford that, they are full of it. Would it have an immediate noticeable impact? Most definitely.

This might actually be what they already do, and the reason you still see so many RMT in-game is because they wait and ban tons at once. Waiting allows them to track the accounts and follow patterns so they can catch more accounts to ban at a time. However it leaves the playerbase with the perception nothing is being done.

Even if they did this properly, it would likely just increase the market in account selling. It also doesn't do much to stop the mercenary groups that use discord to get people to RMT for EX fight clears. Same groups doing it in Roulette PF for damn near a year.

[Barraind]

1400 tena = 10% perm

No. Your numbers are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off.

330 Tenacity = 1% damage and mitigation.

for comparison among linear scaling stats, for the same increase, you need:

250 Det
240 hit

[DonovanLifeweaver]

No. Your numbers are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off.

330 Tenacity = 1% damage and mitigation.

for comparison among linear scaling stats, for the same increase, you need:

250 Det
240 hit

its the last entry on reddit i could find about tena so.....

[Xatsh]

From what I am seeing the 33 tenacity for 0.1% dmg potency and dmg reduction seems to be fairly accurate. So 330 for 1% is about right.


If it was 140 per 1% my pld I am leveling atm would have nearly 20% dmg reduction with food, which it 100% does not.



Tenacity is the lowest in terms of dmg boost a tank can get when comparing all the materia. But the trade off it adds more defense which the others do not.
So tanks need to decide is a 3-4% dmg loss worth 6-7% more dmg reduction. Most endgame people will say no actually because you do not need the defense to clear the content so with all things FFXIV DPS > All due to DPS checks.

[iWaRTuRTLeS]

U know SE isnt gnna bann the credit card. Banning 7k accounts makes them more money, imagine 7k accounts rebuying a cd key for 40$ + a new $15 monthly. Every other month.

[Vahlnir]

Logic is don't queue up if your kid is not sleep, changed, and fed.

C. Miss the queue and not complain about the penalty because I decided to have a kid and children are huge inconveniences.

Exactly. Even as a person without kids, if I know I'm going to be busy or simply know I could be at a moment's notice I typically avoid queues that can take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour depending on the content and/or group. I wouldn't necessarily call children inconveniences though, as much as they can potentially cause quite a few. It's all about planning around what life has to throw at you. I have no doubt it can be even crazier for someone with kids, but...the OP needs to realize that, well, sometimes life happens, and it takes priority over any game. An in game penalty, and a temporary one at that, since they can hop right back into queue, is trivial at best. I've come across many people through my MMO years that have been able to play their game and manage their RL just fine, even with kids.

[Barraind]

its the last entry on reddit i could find about tena so.....

Those arent even Stormblood values.

Tenacity in 4.0 was 22 per .1%