The poor RMT's...

[ZakarnRosewood]

Not nearly the same thing. You pay for cable, aka the service of bringing TV channels to your TV, not for the channels themselves. If you do pay specifically for certain TV channels, they usually do not show advertisements. Sort of like how you pay for internet access but still have to deal with advertisements on free news sites, but don't need to deal with advertisements on web pages or services you pay to use. FFXIV is one of those you pay for.

Fair enough. I knew it as a bit of a bad example. But it does illustrate a difference. On TV you get commercials, they are endorsements of the television stations you watch. This is how you get to watch these shows for the low cost of the cable subscription. They are legitimate commercials.

RMT's are not legitimate endorsements of an MMO. they are parasites that survived off the host MMO by siphoning legitimate sources of income out of the economy to turn around and sell it back to the consumers as a real life cost. None of this transfer of real money is seen by the MMO company. They do not get a cent. It in turn throws the in game balanced economy into turmoil because they have accounted for growth and decline from within their legitimate system.

I do understand what is going on with RMT's to some extent, while i'm no expert I do try to make light of some peoples posts. Like the "drug dealer" analogy I left on page two. The point of my OP was to show people that, yes, SE is doing something about RMT's. This situation is far more complex than any simple solution we think up on the forums and it is in Dev's best interest to solve it.

You can complain because you are a single person irritated by RMT's. Look at it from the MMO Developer's point of view. They have to mitigate the RMT activity (no small feat in itself), they have to deal with hacked accounts, they have to deal with 100's of thousands of customer complaints, they have to deal with not-so-nice suggestions on how to fix it, they have to deal with RMT's corrupting their economy, they have to deal with RMT's hacking and cheating in the game, and probably even more that I am not taking into account. You think RMT's annoy YOU?

And the MMO will get the brunt of the hate because OTHER people choose to hack, cheat, and do underhanded deals to make a profit off someone elses back. Where is the hate for the RMT? Can we start flooding their sites with this vitriol instead of adding to the Headache that the MMO devs already have with this unwanted situation?