Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[seida]

Yoshi-P and members of the dev team are known to play the actual game on the production servers (presumably JP data center.) Presumably it is a big problem there as well and they are aware of it.

Thing is, it's not a problem on jp servers at all. I've been on tonberry 10 months and can't remember ever getting one. I watch my bf play on typhon and he never gets them either.

Fact is, jp players don't tend to buy gil, so there is no market. Part of the reason name servers have these shouts is because people buy!

Of course se should do more. But the number of players who buy is a real problem too.

[Felis]

Thing is, it's not a problem on jp servers at all. I've been on tonberry 10 months and can't remember ever getting one. I watch my bf play on typhon and he never gets them either.

i think this is because of language barriers.
RMTs can't write in japanese, and the amount of players on JP servers that can understand the english RMT codes are not enough to start a business there.

[seida]

i think this is because of language barriers.
RMTs can't write in japanese, and the amount of players on JP servers that can understand the english RMT codes are not enough to start a business there.

I highly doubt it, you think they would speak English unless there was money to be made from it? It's not that difficult to find out the relevant vocab needed. If there was money to be made, they would do it. Also, there are loads of english speakers on Tonberry and we still never get any (despite there beng gil buyers here). I think buying gil is a lot more taboo among jp players.

Anyway, the other big problem IS the buyers. But of course SE will never ban anyone who buys gil, because they pay a subscription and SE wants their money, no matter how unfair it is to other players. If there were no buyers, the shouts would die out soon enough.

It does sound unbearable on other servers though, whatever they are doing currently, it is clearly not enough.