I'd like to know how many people who are saying 'it's easy! All SE has to do is...' actually have any experience as a company dealing with RMT.


Its more complicated than you seem to think it is. It was obvious early on that they hadnt hired many GMs because they needed to find the required amount. I dont know if they've stepped it up or not since then.

When it comes to teleport hacks, do you really think they have the time to just stop what they're doing, stand out in a zone and wait to see if they spot one guy teleporting around? Maybe they do that, maybe they dont, but I highly doubt they have enough gm's to spot every botter doing that at a time. They have procedures to follow, and its not so easy to look over logs for a botter in the way it is to just check chat logs for /tell spammers.

Speaking of those spammers. I regularly clear out my blacklist and Im never seeing familiar names. They get banned, or they delete the character. There's the added issue of 'was this account hacked or not?' A good portion of the accounts banned probably then have to be reviewed when people show they were hacked and want it unbanned. Of those people who got hacked, I'll wager at least some of them were stupid or inexperienced enough to not fully secure their details after, allowing RMT to get straight back on.

How about bots just farming over and over? Is that really a bot or a player who just likes farming? Are the rmt who run into dungeons and aoe for gil really RMT or just selfish players/trolls? Can you imagine the backlash if they just banned any character that looked even slightly suspicious and they turned out to be a real player just farming? Add to that the people who report and make up reasons just to spite someone they don't like. It happens.