I heard the Special Task Force is going to hitt the bots hard now, that the patch has

[Jojoya]

I seriously believe it's you living in an echo chamber. Well, actually not in an echo chamber, more of your own world.

Believe as you will.

Bots will never disappear until those buying their service disappear. It's that simple.

[Kes13a]

Believe as you will.

Bots will never disappear until those buying their service disappear. It's that simple.

I agree. but I think the problem still lies with game companies not coming down hard on the buyers. once upon a time if you bought currency or services you first got a temp ban, that was usually enough to stop most people from using teh services. the second was usually a perma ban. these days, its like they dont even bother with the buyers, which I think is the wrong approach.

Yes, go after the bots, by all means, work against those, but people using the services supplied by bot activity need to know its also against the TOS and be dealt with in a more severe manner

[Jojoya]

I agree. but I think the problem still lies with game companies not coming down hard on the buyers. once upon a time if you bought currency or services you first got a temp ban, that was usually enough to stop most people from using teh services. the second was usually a perma ban. these days, its like they dont even bother with the buyers, which I think is the wrong approach.

Yes, go after the bots, by all means, work against those, but people using the services supplied by bot activity need to know its also against the TOS and be dealt with in a more severe manner

I completely agree that game companies need to hit the buyers a lot harder.

It's not that difficult to figure out who is buying. Just trace the gil that's coming through bot farming or account compromises and see where it goes. When it's used to buy a cheap item for crazy amounts of gil from a seller account that has otherwise normal activity, you just found a buyer. RMT dealers aren't going to be giving away large amounts of gil to random players - they're in it to make money.

I know some players fear they might be identified as a RMT buyer incorrectly just for engaging in an unusually large transaction with a friend trying to help them out. That wouldn't be a problem as long as the source of the friend's gil isn't illicit activity such as botting or a compromised account.