Gold sellers are getting worse on my server

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No, it is entirely the fault of the buyers that RMTers exist. It is impossible for any one MMO to completely stomp out gold sellers and bots, because they go into it expecting to get banned. Why is it worth going through all the effort and getting hundreds of accounts banned to farm and advertise gold? Because there exists a demand for it, in the form of the people willing to buy illegitimate gold.

WoW couldn't completely get rid of them, so they introduced the WoW Token as a legitimate way for people to buy gold, and RMTers still exist in WoW, albeit selling their contraband at much lower prices to match or beat the token. It's the same reason why the War on Drugs failed in the US; where there is a high enough demand, people will move mountains to introduce their supply.

Blaming the problem on SE is ignorant at best, when even Actiblizz couldn't solve the problem in it's prime.

Hang on a minute, you're lecturing me in another thread about how people have to take personal responsibility when it comes to gambling addiction. Yet here it's the game developers fault because players are funding an industry that significantly impact the game in a negative way. That's seems to be the opposite of your views on gambling.


I honestly don't understand why anyone buys gil in this game, what do they even spend it on? it's not like they can use it to buy a house, there aren't any available. They can buy clears I suppose but that seems meaningless to me if they paid for the clear and other than that?....... Everything else is easily affordable from just.... existing in game.

Thing is the community placing the blame on the buyers in irrelevant we have no say or power over the actions of other. Also buyers generally probably do take personal accountability for their actions they are just putting their own enjoyment ahead of others.

In the the end sure RMT will always be a factor but as someone who use to sell gold in WoW as a summer job and still friends with many who engage in RMT our personal fear is the banning of those who buy which will cut our demand. Banning the seller is moot it is just part of doing business.

In the end if people want to break the rules that is on them I do not see people who partake in RMT complaining because generally people understand the risk that is associated with it on both a personal and communal level.

Also the reason behind why someone buys currency in a game is moot sure the devs will never be able to get rid of RMT 100% but they can still provide means to curb it.

Personally I think it is ignorant of the community to blame buyers when we have no control over how an individual chooses to spend their money. We can mock them but what does that solve? As mentioned if SE had less lax rules regarding buyers then may be that would dissuade some from taking part. I do not think I ever mentioned it is possible to get rid of RMT 100% but as someone that sold my greatest fear is when a company starts to ban buyers since if buyers do not feel they are safe they will not take part.