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

[SenseiMaria]

Read the actual article and not the OP's inaccurate summary-by-reaction. They do not say that they "know it won't help", they say that they know the scammers will continue to attempt to get around it, as a step to saying they have processes in place to delete illegally-obtained items from the buyer's account.

It's understandable to be upset, but it's also important to be upset at what they actually did say and not somebody else's claim of what they said.

This. RMTers will always try to get around these things, which is what Square is saying. So long as people keep buying this stuff and there's a profit margin for the 3rd parties to keep doing it, they'll keep doing it.

But one look at a very popular item code resale website has shown effectively every mogstation mount listing has been wiped out, and the remaining few have new notices like 'while code supplies last'. This change Impacted them heavily. They'll likely try and figure out how to monetize the remaining options as best they can, but in one decisive strike, Square just crushed 95% of the code relisting sellers. It is working.

This situation is almost completely temporary. You think Square would just leave money on the table for literally no reason? No, thats absurd, they're a capitalist business. This whole situation just screams of 'we needed a solution NOW, we'll implement this and then change it when we get a better one operational' to me.

EDIT: super cropped to not promote said website, but just to showcase:

This guy used to have 150 some odd offerings for basically everything on the mogstation that wasn't already dirt cheap. Today he's down to 18, with the indigo whale & chocobo carriage being the only two remaining, with only 2 & 3 supplies remaining in the listings respectively. His store offerings got annihilated