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    Player Kosmos992k's Avatar
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    Everyone complaining about no action on RMT, please read

    There have been numerous threads in the forums wailing about how SE doesn't do this that or the other about RMT. Although I would agree that there are some simple changes that would help (account wide black list & "report as spam" menu option), it's undeniable that SE are doing something.

    Just look at this from the most recent action against RMT topic. Almost 11,000 accounts permanently banned....
    Time Period: Mar. 26, 2015 to Apr. 1, 2015
    - Accounts receiving disciplinary action for RMT advertising: 2,717
    - Accounts receiving disciplinary action for RMT/illicit activity: 8,086
    - Action Details: Permanent ban from FINAL FANTASY XIV

    - Accounts receiving disciplinary action for participation in RMT/illegal activity: 64
    - Action Details: Temporary ban from FINAL FANTASY XIV
    Link to full post : http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...e8ebe4f3e86269

    If you've been watching these posts over the months you will probably be aware that this is one of the larger ban waves we have seen.

    Think about this, in the period of 7 days SE's task force evaluated evidence regarding nearly 11,000 accounts and decided on action. That's about 1500 a day. I'm not sure how many people they have in their task force, but even if there were 100 team members that's 15 accounts per person per day 7 days a week. Given the work needed to properly evaluate the evidence to avoid wrongly banning a legitimate player, as well as justify the account being banned, that's not an inconsiderable workload.

    I'm actually pretty sure they don't have a team of 100 people in the task force, the overhead of carrying such a large team would absorb a significant portion of the revenue from FFXIV and take a sizable bite out of the development budget.

    So, next time you're complaining about the lack of action, consider the volume of account bans.
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    Last edited by Kosmos992k; 04-03-2015 at 01:39 AM.

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    Yeah and 10,000 new bots have popped up according to reports LOL YAY! Go go gil sellers awaaaaaaaaaaaay!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elusana_Celah View Post
    Yeah and 10,000 new bots have popped up according to reports LOL YAY! Go away gil buyers awaaaaaaaaaaaay!
    fixed that for ya, only real way to fix the RMT issue, sadly it'll never happen.
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    Player Kosmos992k's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elusana_Celah View Post
    Yeah and 10,000 new bots have popped up according to reports LOL YAY! Go go gil sellers awaaaaaaaaaaaay!
    Except SE actually bans bots far, far less often than they ban the other accounts involved since they use the bots to trace the gil to the bankers, transactional accounts and advertizing accounts.

    Also, I agree with the statements in some replies about the actions against gil buyers. As long as people think they can get away with a slap on the wrist for buying gil, they will continue to take the risk. Stop gil buyers and you pretty much end RMT, so permanently banning accounts shown to have purchased gil from a gil seller is the only way to go IMHO.
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    Last edited by Kosmos992k; 04-03-2015 at 01:46 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elusana_Celah View Post
    Yeah and 10,000 new bots have popped up according to reports LOL YAY! Go go gil sellers AND buyers awaaaaaaaaaaaay!
    Quote Originally Posted by Gralna View Post
    fixed that for ya, only real way to fix the RMT issue, sadly it'll never happen.
    Fixed that further for ya. It won't end until BOTH are aptly gotten rid of
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    Again, attacking the demand market is impractical and costly compared to attacking the supply market, which also damages the demand market. Any algorithmic process of detecting and punishing the demand market will cause little to no visible effect due to how versatile and flexible the demand market's processes for hiding itself are, while the supply market uses easily-predicted measures and doesn't even bother trying to hide itself.

    Do you people even economics or do you just want a witch hunt?
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    video games are bad

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    The problem there is the 64 accounts that received temp bans, until that changes to permanent bans. You will continue to see these posted every month as they have been doing.
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    They are like cockroaches.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cyrus-Wallace View Post
    They are like cockroaches.
    Please don't insult the cockroaches.
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