RMT: Time to start banning IP addresses

[Tupsi]

They would have to ban the source of IPs, much like SE swept banned Korea to get rid of a majaority of the RMT and DDoSers in XI which sadly affected legit users who played from there. (Huh Korea? Exactly, RMT is actually Korean/Japanese and American largely.)

So banning IPs does nothing - They'd have to regionally ban which could be bad.

[Thorauku]

(Huh Korea? Exactly, RMT is actually Korean/Japanese and American largely.)

Add Filipino players. *Cough* Tonberry *Cough*

[Delsus]

Well seeing as RMT is a huge plague on MMOs in general, they will be making a fortune, I wouldn't be surprised if the bigger companies actually have IP ranges leased and their own DHCP server (jut get a Linux install on a PC and download the DHCP package to avoid excess costs, low power but you don't need much) and they can then get around any IP bans, if they don't do this they would just use a VPN or proxy, anyone can get round IP bans.

Personally for the OP I would have mentioned MAC banning first, but anyone can still spoof a MAC address and get around that as well.

Also Geryth, your holier than thou speech is very inappropriate, try going to China, Korea etc, the places where the most RMT are and bascally say "Get a job", there would be a lot of people really offended by your attitude, the fact is you got lucky if everything you have said is true (going by my personal experiences looking for work) I remember 2 years looking for work, 2 years of "well your skills are better than what we would expect, and yes you would fit the role perfectly, however one other candidate had more experience" tells me you got lucky.

[Tiggy]

If players would just stop buying then the RMT's would have no market. The south park episode where they wanted to kill the Wal-mart comes to mind. When they found the heart of the Wal-mart it was just a mirror for them to see themselves in.

[Naberrie]

RMT would just adapt. It's what they do. They'd find ways around the IP ban. Meanwhile, the innocent affected by the IP ban would be the ones truly affected. You'd only slow RMT down for, at best, a day. Probably not even that.