Let's talk about: RMT!

[joshsecret]

(The reason for this is unknown as some of the most profitable RMT specialists do not employ these efforts.)

i honestly think they spam adverts for competition reasons. ive see them get into biding wars plenty of times. i dont think anyone who wouldnt use their services will be swayed by shouts/tells. it seems pointless because anyone with the mind-set to buy from rmt can simply use google and do whatever.

i see tons of threads complaining about rmt but rarely do i see people post things beyond ideas to stop the adverts. to me, chasing after the shout bots is pointless. again from what i said above. i think the only way to really stop or slow down the practice of rmt trading would have to come from restricting the way we trade gil in-game. preventing the bots' ability of giving out gil would have a bigger impact imo. why in the world do we need the ability to send 500k to a person face-to-face or through moogle mail? i have never been in a situation to where i needed to give that much money to anyone.

my suggestion would be to reduce the amount of gil to 1-5k for face-to-face or moogle mail transactions. with this restriction you could still be nice to a friend and send a few bucks to help them out or tip a crafter for melding but i doubt rmt would continue to use these methods to give the buyers their gil due to the massive number of transactions it would take to give 1 or more million that they buy. with this in effect they would have to go back to/focus on MB scams of buyers putting worthless items up for sale and the rmt buying them. the special task force could then streamline their attention to one place and track odd or massively over priced sells and hammer both parties.

the harder it is for rmt to give buyers their gil = less tranactions = less bots