How to handle/investigate RMT in FC?

[Alberel]

I've never bought gil myself, never seen the need for it, but I also don't really get why people make such a big deal about other people who did choose to buy it. I've known several cases of people I know buying gil to fund purchases ingame and just shrugged my shoulders at it. It doesn't affect me, so why should I care. And anybody who thinks it does affect them is just mistaking jealousy for something that actually matters.

the "bad rep" is all in people's heads.


Would have thought by now that people would stop caring about something that has existed since MMOs were invented. Not like any amount of complaining over it is ever going to make RMT cease to exist.

Have you ever complained about bots? Have you ever complained about gil seller spam? Do you care about having your account hacked so RMT can strip it of all gil?

If you know people that buy gil then they are directly supporting bots, spam and account stealing. If you 'don't care' about friends buying gil then you also 'don't care' about everything that buying gil facilitates. There is a reason why it is against the TOS; it is cheating and it makes for a lot of hassle for everyone else to have to put up with the crap RMT pulls to try and make gil.

Oh and that 'bad rep' associated with buying currency is very very real. Almost everyone I play with would blacklist and report anyone they knew to have bought gil. The buyers are the entire problem in the RMT market. Shrugging your shoulders and letting them get on with it only serves to make the sellers more prolific in their attempts to spam everyone else to death and flood the servers with bots.

By willfully ignoring the issue or dismissing it you are part of the problem.

[Stumpedify]

Have you ever complained about bots? Have you ever complained about gil seller spam? Do you care about having your account hacked so RMT can strip it of all gil?

I've seen bots, know they are there, but bots have never interfered with my ability to play the game.

My server doesn't get gil spam. Only 1 person on my blacklist and it isn't an RMT account -- was a real player being nasty.

I've played MMOs since they existed, never ever had an account hacked. /shrug. I'll think about that if it ever happens -- which I doubt.

Why should I report people that I've had fun playing with? They are nice people, clearing content together just like everybody else. It would be a sad thing for me to ruin their fun and my own by creating a witch hunt out of it.

I've witnessed the existence of RMT since even the UO days. As long as there has been MMOs, there has been RMT, and there will continue to be RMT for as long as MMOs continue to exist. It's part of the scenery and no amount of complaining is going to change that. So it's a waste of time and energy that would be better off used enjoying the game. Your post sounds like it's full of a lot of unnecessary stress you're putting on yourself. Should probably go relax and enjoy the game instead of stressing out about how other people choose to play.