How Do Other MMOs Deal with the RMT Situation?

[Theresa]

I wonder how Blizzard deals with it, I played WoW for years and never had problems with RMT.

[Yukiba]

They make cool music videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dkkf5NEIo0

Your link lead me to this.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xciuYTeu4Qc ..Wow lol

[Bluevann]

Your link lead me to this.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xciuYTeu4Qc ..Wow lol

I've never played WoW, but I freaking love Nyhm and his songs ^^ Especially Nerf You. He's a genius of videogame-inspired satirical songs to me!

[Velhart]

Spam tells are annoying, but look what WoW dealt with in the past. RMT made a ton of accounts, put them all in the most populated hub areas and would spell out their URL in dead bodies. I wonder when FFXIV will get this. Wish I could show, but ToS and all. Just Google it.

[Kyarra]

In Star Wars Galaxies, they gave a select few privelages to silent the spammers, in EQ2 and WoW they have a way for players to buy gil from them instead of the gold sellers, thus driving away their business.

[Whatever]

Seems RMT has started a war.. The amount of spamming has steadily increased over the last few months. It seems they are getting even more blazen. I kid you not, I logged on last night. Not standing in Ul market 5 minutes.. I got about 10 /tells and than slapped and /blacklisted a shout spammer who just warps into the market and out. Most of the time now I just put busy status on right away and blacklist the shouters asap. But I can see how this can ruin new players enjoyment of the game.. fix it SE

[Edellis]

There isn't much XIV can do about it. The problem with any mass solution comes in identifying what's an RMT and what isn't, and im sure SOMEBODY would find a way to make a huge deal out of whatever would-be filters they'd create in the process. And then, the RMT people are still making new accounts, and new characters, and spamming with bots.

And, just think -- every one successful RMT transaction can likely pay for another account for RMT purposes, which translates to another 40 spambots across the entire game. And if any of those are successful, here comes another 40...