My friend was hacked while logged in

[Kimbles01]

lets do this 60 servers x 8 employees = 480 employees time 10$ an hour = 4,800$ times 8 hours a day = 38,400 times 365 days =14,016,000 (yearly) or 1,152,000 monthly

Take in Se player base of 750,000 times a base of 13.99 = 10,492,500 per month or 125,910,000 (yearly) subtract the two numbers equals 111,894,000 net.

Other factors to fund this SE makes other games that sell FF15 , Kingdom Hearts , FFXI (over 20mil a year still I would guess) Were talking company profit loss margin here it can be done

While I do agree that the game SEVERELY needs ingame GMs, I... honestly don't have high expectations for SE's customer support dealings with NA/EU. From what I hear, you can post a problem on the Japanese forums and, if it's important, usually get a dev/gm/mod reply sooner than later.

[avecha]

Funny thing i noticed in Gridania at the summoning bell was a KO'ed character right underneath the summoning bell. After hearing about this i wonder if it's connected.
How could a KO'ed char get there?

[Kiroh]

Funny thing i noticed in Gridania at the summoning bell was a KO'ed character right underneath the summoning bell. After hearing about this i wonder if it's connected.
How could a KO'ed char get there?

Enter DF while on top of the bell, die, leave DF while dead.

[DarkRain]

Let me stop you right there.
Paying people $10 an hour does not mean it costs S-E $10 per hour to hire people.
Perhaps you should ask your employer sometimes what you are actually costing him besides your own sallary.

well we all know this . And not factoring in things like insurance , 401k / stock options bonuses still it is feasible to do. And 10$ per is a base make it 20$ and double the total at the end at 2,304,000 month just pay lets add in 3mil to cover insurance and things so were looking at 5,304,000 per month or 63,648,000 subtract the same base yearly income total ( just for this game ) of 125,910,000 - 63,648,000 still at 62,262,000 just for this game alone . take out another 30% for the Dev team and Yoshi SE banks close to 20mil again not even factoring in things like first time yearly sales of the game 30~60$ depending on version of the game you bought . and sales over time . Say this year 250,000 of 750,00 sales are V1 players who got the game for free . So 500k people who bought the game on ps3 witch was 40$ ( we will use the PS3 low end for the example ) total on JUST sales is 20mil per this year . Then after a good solid year you can roll down the cost by downsizing the operation and save money its really not that hard

[minen]

3rd Party apps use your Online session id(however you wanna call it) once they have your id well...

[COSMIC_RENEGADE]

Oh ,so like blame the nation with the pirates when some gils go missing

Now thats funny lol. I like pirate town but dang loooool. I gotta laugh even though losing gil in this situation made me upset. To all other the players like me that were affected...I feel your pain and hope SE refunds us our gil or do character rollbacks as someone mentioned asap.

[COSMIC_RENEGADE]

It's utterly baffling how low RMTs will go to steal hard-earned money from legitimate players.

I'm deeply hoping Square Enix does whatever it possibly can to fix this issue so as to protect us. I hadn't had this happen to me, but I totally empathize with the players who were affected by this. That so totally sucks and I hope Square is willing to compensate you in some way for your stolen funds.

It's mind boggling to me how they can get away with this even now...

Thank you and I know we all feel the same. SE has to take action on this one. I was on the ps3 when this happened.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

3rd Party apps use your Online session id(however you wanna call it) once they have your id well...

Enough with blaming the victims of the theft. Your statement is true, but what you neglect to mention is that a third party program can collect other PC IDs just as easily. Especially with how FFXIV is structured. If anyone is to blame, the last are the players who had their gil stolen this way. Both the people behind the exploit and, well, let's call them, "thee all mighty Esse!" are to blame. The all mighty Esse being at fault due to this being completely avoidable. Remember when players were temp banned on non legacy servers a month back and no explanation, or a sufficient one anyway, was given? This situation kinda relates back to that.

They know what kind of situation they are dealing with and they know how it was able to happen and they absolutely know they are to blame, but don't think for a second you'll hear that from them. Also, unless they restructure how the client reacts in certain situations in relation to the servers you're going to see new situations like this pop back up. Don't say I didn't warn ya!

[COSMIC_RENEGADE]

I hope they fix this and reinburse the gil lost.. I only lost 1 million compared to other players who lost more, but I worked hard for it all the same and it was all I had lol.. ><

I can totally relate...it took hard work and now it's gone. It was 2.1 mil for me a viscous secretions hq purchased for 2 mil (couldn't find the other item for 100k.) I can only imagine how the ones that lost more feel...

*group hug* its gonna be ok...

[TeganLaron]

Wow, pretty scary reading this. Hope everyone gets their gil back!