Phishing scam ongoing since christmas

[Nukro]

Announcements are linked in the launcher when you log in. They put them somewhere that everyone must visit before playing the game; it's not SE's fault if people don't read it.

I do. It's not Square-Enix's responsibility to make sure people don't get scammed. The fact they had any warnings at all is surprising. People need to take responsibility for their own information safety.

That's like telling someone "Watch out for landmines." and then blaming them for blowing up two years later. Everyone makes mistakes and expecting someone to live a perfect online life is just unrealistic. That's not even mentioning the fact that when you deal with MMO volumes of players over the timescale of an MMO's lifespan, every incident imaginable is bound to happen.

Besides, "letting people learn from their mistakes" doesn't change the fact that there are active scams and illegal activity being run on SE's service. It IS there job to deal with it because it's their service they are providing to us. Keeping it safe, clean, and fun should be the main objective no matter how you look at it.

I think Ravenblade1979's point is that there should be more preventative measures in place instead of just reactive bans. Examples like banning IPs, hardware bans, more restrictions on free account ect...
Saying "We told you so" isn't solving the problem, it's giving up on it.

[Joven]

That's like telling someone "Watch out for landmines." and then blaming them for blowing up two years later. Everyone makes mistakes and expecting someone to live a perfect online life is just unrealistic. That's not even mentioning the fact that when you deal with MMO volumes of players over the timescale of an MMO's lifespan, every incident imaginable is bound to happen.

Besides, "letting people learn from their mistakes" doesn't change the fact that there are active scams and illegal activity being run on SE's service. It IS there job to deal with it because it's their service they are providing to us. Keeping it safe, clean, and fun should be the main objective no matter how you look at it.

I think Ravenblade1979's point is that there should be more preventative measures in place instead of just reactive bans. Examples like banning IPs, hardware bans, more restrictions on free account ect...
Saying "We told you so" isn't solving the problem, it's giving up on it.

Maybe, just maybe SE believes their playerbase isn't a bunch of morons who can think for themselves instead of needing their hands held over every little thing. Or maybe they don't care and are doing the minimum to cover themselves. Either way it's still not their responsibility to make sure people aren't idiots.