not many people on the forums?

[Kosmos992k]

Everyone says this game is really popular but to me it seems like the traffic on the forums are very slow and almost dead?

Which is why it's universally true to say that forums are a god awful way of judging the activity for *anything*.

The posting restrictions prevent anyone from flooding the forum with a bazillion one line replies, and the character limitation on a new post or reply (which can be overcome by editing) also tends to keep things reasonable.

If you read the forums, you'll see the traffic, and if you post, you'll soon encounter the posting restrictions.

it begs the questions, "Why is it that requests we make, such as more attention to banning RMT, are completely ignored even though there are more threads than are necessary requesting that SE please focus more effort and attention on banning RMT to improve the game for all existing players as well as any new players who may join in the future?"
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If a community Mod sees this, please, for the love of the twelve, pass it on to Yoshi P and the Dev Team that the playerbase have absolutely had it with being constantly inundated with RMT /tells to the point that most people prefer to play with /busy status causing them to be unable to be contacted via /tell, accept trades, receive invites, etc.

Do you honestly believe that a) the community managers are unaware of the issues with RMT? b) Yoshi and the Dev team are oblivious to the issues of RMT?

Of course they are aware, and there is a task force set up to handle RMT, it's simply not handling it fast enough for you, me or anyone else. That's due to RMT efforts quickly ramping up and overwhelming the capacity of the task force to properly investigate and act on reports (such as they are). It's also due to an increasingly large number of utterly ignorant and inconsiderate players particularly on NA/EU servers who don't give a damn about anyone else and purchase gil from these RMT slimeballs. Without a market there is no RMT, without a growing market, there is less RMT ramp up.

I love how people always blame SE when the simple fact is if it were not worth their while to advertize, RMT would not advertize. more advertizing means a larger market which means more players are buying gil. It's those fools who need to receive the loving attention of a big fat banhammer every bit as much as the scum that sell gil in the first place.