Banning RMT accounts won't fix the issue

[kazaran]

Better filtersare needed, faster action. Better anti abuse systems that isn't ban.

What stops RMT's the most is gamers not using them at all, and ignoring their existence. In my opinion, you buy from them, then your name, accounts, and information is perm banned.

[Dorin]

Now that subs have kicked in though, I expect to see a huge drop in RMTers.

[Theref]

While not everyone from that area is a RMT, that's where majority come from. It sucks it happened to you, but hey; what other real solution is there to stop them?

But IP filtering doesn't effectively stop RMT, if they want to sell gold, they will, and they can. Like using VPN and etc.

Better filtersare needed, faster action. Better anti abuse systems that isn't ban.

What stops RMT's the most is gamers not using them at all, and ignoring their existence. In my opinion, you buy from them, then your name, accounts, and information is perm banned.

This, as long as there's demand, there will be RMT

[Volcano]

Better filtersare needed, faster action. Better anti abuse systems that isn't ban.

What stops RMT's the most is gamers not using them at all, and ignoring their existence. In my opinion, you buy from them, then your name, accounts, and information is perm banned.

This, sadly as long as lazy/stupid people buy gill, RMT will stay, If no one bought gill, RMT have no reason to be here. it is a very simple solution to fix, yet the hardest thing to fix. So in reality gill buyers like the spam and want to be annoyed all day, every day so long as they have their quick fix.

[Crescent_Dusk]

I don't think any company has found the definite way to get rid of rmt.
But i might not be up to date on these things.
Since you make it sound like they overlook some obvious solution, what do you propose?

It's very easy. Stop making money critical for in-game functions or make it easy to obtain and only used for trivial matters, and you'll see nobody will buy in-game money as they don't feel obligated to engage in activity to obtain a currency they feel gates them from game content.

You really can't blame gold sellers. Most Asian games have horrendous RMT issues because they make the economy so important to enjoying the game. In games where the economy is of marginal importance, RMT has no market.

If people could obtain everything in the game by just playing the combat content and the crafting/gathering was optional for those who like the minigames, RMT in this game would go broke.

[zeroumus]

my solution :

Simply charge and extra dollar per month for the game, that would hire a fair amount of people (gm's) who's job it would be to deal with it. Give the Gms more discretion to do things ( punishment starts small so as to protect wrongfully targeted players, but starts ramping up into long term bans for repeat offenders ).

its really that simple

[TheMoonflow]

SE needs to do what EME did and ban China from accessing the servers. There, problem solved. Tera doesn't have any gold sellers for that reason alone.

Wait until they sub first /gg

[AlmaMalma]

Short term, SE are doing what they did in XI : play the long game. Spot players whose gil jumps a lot in one day, put them on suspension, track back where the gil came from. Once they find the supplier, ban them permanently, and reinstate the suckers who bought gil - or, sadly, those who made a lot of gil in large blocks by selling Titan runs and such like. That's the fallout from getting rid of GIL BUYERS.

[Obreck]

My thoughts:

Anyone who gets over 50 blists in under 3 hours should be muted from say/shout/yell, with tells restricted to friends list until a GM reviews them. They should also be blocked from making new characters so they can't just crap out another "Asdfadsf Ghjkjghkg" without at least breaking out another account. That should put a heavy throttle on the RMTer's ability to advertise as well as mop up the spam.

Abuse prevention: Though I personally think the idea of one troll rallying 49 other trolls to blist abuse a conspiracy theory, just in case the 50 people who blisted the affected player should have their names & FC logged. If the GM review shows no RMT activity from the affected player the people that blisted them should be flagged and disciplined appropriately. Repeat offenders get suspended/banned.

And how about limiting shards to stacks of 99 on auction? Several people have over 10,000 cumulative shards up on auction on my server ATM. How could that possibly be legitimate? If the devs aren't going to police the bots could they at least throttle the rate at which they can dump their botted goods onto the market?

[Divinemight]

While not everyone from that area is a RMT, that's where majority come from. It sucks it happened to you, but hey; what other real solution is there to stop them?

Economy 101, the supply and demand. If there is no demand, who would want to supply? At the end of table, it is impatient players that is not welling to put in efforts into mmorpg that feeding these RMTs. Tera is a bad exmaple, RMT wont survive in that game is because of its cash shops.

Get it straight.