Idea - How to finish with the RMT.

[Fireseen]

So much time spent writing this post for nothing, skimmed = TL;DR. Gil spammers are good for revenue. How many servers are there? I personally have countless "active" gibberish named characters that I blacklisted on just my one server, and I don't blacklist every single one (I don't pay attention to it sometimes). If each one of those is a $30~ dollar account, straight cash! And I know some of them have been on for over a month = sub paid, more money.

[LineageRazor]

Gil spammers are good for revenue.

If you're implying by this that SE tolerates gilsellers because of the money their accounts bring in, you should know that this is not true. SE releases reports all the time talking about the anti-RMT actions they've taken - just look at the Lodestone main page and you'll see there are seven such notices up at this very moment!

SE learned from their mistakes in being lax with RMT in FFXI. The economy of that game crashed hard after an enormous gil sale back in, I think it was, 2006? 2008? Whenever. It cost them a lot of customers, because the prices of items that normally sold for hundreds of thousands of gil were suddenly costing tens of millions due to the huge influx of gil into the economy during an especially vigorous Christmas sale. It hurt their reputation as well, and no matter how money-oriented a company is it still wants to look good to potential new customers.

So, no - the money gilseller accounts bring in are not worth enough to SE to leave them be.

As for the original topic of this thread, I'm not sure how I feel about it. Certainly, when I started playing I never had any need to send anyone a tell prior to level 10. The game is REALLY GOOD about tutoring you through early game content, and leveling to ten happens ridiculously quickly anyway. Even so, there's no way that this will "finish" RMT, and I'm not even really sure that it will significantly slow them.

Creating bots to level characters to 10 should be pretty easy. It would all come down to the quest, and whether it will be complex enough to require human interaction to pass. (Maybe an actual Captcha image would be involved?)