Quote Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi View Post
What will happen is that the Gold farmers will instead buy up all the "plex" resources and then sell them at whatever rate they want it to sell for so they spend less time actually farming, and more time stealing peoples accounts to charge "plex" on. That is what happens in these other games that have tried to duplicate EVE's plex system. One account gets broken into, the "stored" credit card information gets used to charge as much as the card will authorize, they sell it in the game, and then give the gold to their gold farming accounts before the stolen account gets discovered.
Except "buying up all the PLEX" is quite possibly the single most ruinous thing the RMT could ever possibly do to themselves. Think through your scenario one step further. So they've bought all the currently existing PLEX and attempt to resell it at their higher rate. Then what? Players will say "oh look, PLEX is pretty expensive right now, I should go sell some too" and undercut the LIVING HELL out of the RMT. All of a sudden, their big stock gamble has become worthless as the price of PLEX gets driven into the ground by the gold rush.

As for credit card theft, it's fairly easy to trace stolen accounts, items, and gil. SE bans RMT accounts all the time for this so there's no reason their current methods wouldn't work for it, nor do they have to change anything about it. Should people use authenticators? Yes. Should people input their passwords on shady websites like sQu@r3eniX.com? No.