My idea for cutting RMT.

[Alberel]

Well come Heavensward the bots are going to be largely screwed since they will need to complete the story to access any of the expansion areas and content. That means the bots will have a hard time farming anything in 3.0 and if they get banned they have to play through all that story content again on a new account.

It won't directly impede their /tell spam but it should severely harm their productivity which might scare them off a bit.

[Ashkendor]

Well come Heavensward the bots are going to be largely screwed since they will need to complete the story to access any of the expansion areas and content. That means the bots will have a hard time farming anything in 3.0 and if they get banned they have to play through all that story content again on a new account.

It won't directly impede their /tell spam but it should severely harm their productivity which might scare them off a bit.

They'll do it the same way they do now. Use level 1 characters to spam tells and friend requests. Use the same characters they've been using to spam the same old dungeons and the other things they have been spamming for the gil. Pool the gil on bank characters and use mail to get that gil to the buyers. Heavensward won't change anything, aside from possibly an upsurge in activity at the release due to sellers trying to tap a new market. The old dungeons aren't going away so I don't see how the introduction of higher level content into the game would harm their productivity at all.

[Alberel]

They'll do it the same way they do now. Use level 1 characters to spam tells and friend requests. Use the same characters they've been using to spam the same old dungeons and the other things they have been spamming for the gil. Pool the gil on bank characters and use mail to get that gil to the buyers. Heavensward won't change anything, aside from possibly an upsurge in activity at the release due to sellers trying to tap a new market. The old dungeons aren't going away so I don't see how the introduction of higher level content into the game would harm their productivity at all.

Simple. Inflation. In most MMOs higher level content rewards slightly larger amounts of currency and thus the goods at that level end up being worth more because the players engaging with that content that need said goods have more money to spend.

If the difference in monetary rewards between level 50 content and level 60 content is significant then the effective value of any gil RMT might farm from low level dungeons will be greatly reduced. They will also be entirely shut out from accessing any of the new gathering nodes which will cut off another source of revenue for them.

I'm not saying it will solve any problems but it WILL slow them down a lot.

[Ashkendor]

If the difference in monetary rewards between level 50 content and level 60 content is significant then the effective value of any gil RMT might farm from low level dungeons will be greatly reduced. They will also be entirely shut out from accessing any of the new gathering nodes which will cut off another source of revenue for them.

They don't make money with the new gathering nodes, though. That would require melding and such. They make money off shards. There will always be a market for shards even as crafting recipes move into crystals and clusters, because there's always going to be a market for lower level equipment. This will be especially true as new classes are introduced.

[Theonekitten]

Well come Heavensward the bots are going to be largely screwed since they will need to complete the story to access any of the expansion areas and content. That means the bots will have a hard time farming anything in 3.0 and if they get banned they have to play through all that story content again on a new account.

I dunno. I think they are preparing for this as we speak because the other day I saw like 10 level 50 black mages at the Uldah aetheryte with garbage letters for names that were constantly queuing up and doing im assuming guildhests or maybe low level trials because they weren't gone very long. They would respawn back in 4 to 5 at a time and then requeue and disappear again. This was repeated over and over while I was standing there in a span of 30 minutes. I think they are already set to go into Heavensward and are just farming gil to sell at this point.