We anticipate that even with this update, third parties will continue

[rainichan]

There is a post on twitter by Lady Xhiel White, or @Miss_Xhiel . She made a post regarding why such actions were taken, and its related back with SE giving out the update for everyone to update their passwords due to breaches. Its EXACTLY about that, and the fact that doing ton of purchases revokes will get the companies processing said transactions to ban the company for having these problems.


I honestly recommend anyone who is curious to look it up and read it. (Its 15 tweets.) Its all legal stuff; and I think it'll help with some confusion. I don't like how things are happening, but it is what it is.

https://twitter.com/Miss_Xhiel/statu...57930184790021 some lite reading

Was coming in here to link this. I don't doubt they aren't working on bringing back the other stuff to be gifted, but for now this is just gonna have to be it. It sucks, but there's usually a huge uptick in this sort of RMT practice around the holidays. Just going on ebay there's plenty of "I'll power level you " and "buy my gil" posts; there used to be minion codes as well from the Mogstation... there's a distinct lack of them now. Once it's down to a manageable level (read: scaring the RMT buyers and any sellers from doing it) and they get the rest of everything coded in, we'll probably see a change.

It's getting cold out even in AZ so we got some fires going.

Yo anyway does anyone want a Smore?

As long as it isn't the one from Great British Bake Off a week or so ago, heck yeah I'll take one.

Something that I think should be noted is that a lot of people (from the thread title onwards) seem to think SE is saying it won't stop the scammers, but the thread title misses a key part of the quote.

The article does not say that they anticipate scammers will continue without interruption, but will "continue their attempts to sell fraudulently obtained items" (emphasis mine).

Yep, this as well. It's not "well it won't work but we're doing it anyway lol" it's "most will get scared off from doing extra illegal things, but there's always going to be the really aggressive RMT sellers who will inevitably find a way around this, but it'll take some time for that to happen" much like any botting that happens - while it's frustrating that a chunk of botters go unpunished, there's plenty who do and they use programs to do it. Those get reworked once they figure out how SE broke their last program, but it takes some time for it to happen before they're back in business and we're back to square (heh) one in the devs figuring out how the program works to shut it down again.