Rampant botting and RMT..nothing being done

[Belhi]

There are two sides to this. SE is stuck in a war which is undermined a lot by the fact its their own players breaking the rules which are allowing the problem to exist in the first place. If people didn't buy gold, no one would be selling it.

I play on a Japanese server and have never seen a single RMT ad. There are still quite a few bots but no spaming RMT. The difference to the NA servers sounds profound. Bots are annoying but RMT is what is really invasive.

The issue SE has is that the best way to stop people breaking the rules is prevention. Account security is part of this. Anyone who doesn't have single use password protection should get it. Hacked accounts are a favoured way of RMT sellers to advertise because it allows them access to the game without paying anything. Reporting people breaking the rules help as well. Automated solutions are problematic. Innocent players almost inevitably get caught. This creates a need to investigate individual cases which can become extremely cost inefficient. The other option is being more restrictive which is what WoW mainly does.

There is no easy solution to this and its an arms war. People mention WoW but seem to forget it took WoW years to get their own RMT problems under control. They literally had new characters spawning, being hacked to fly through the air to Orgrimmar and being laid out on the ground to spell the letters of gold selling websites. That situation continued for ages.

[Riepah]

The issue SE has is that the best way to stop people breaking the rules is prevention. Account security is part of this. Anyone who doesn't have single use password protection should get it. Hacked accounts are a favoured way of RMT sellers to advertise because it allows them access to the game without paying anything.

I'm pretty sure that doesn't apply here. You can't even log in to your own account if you're using a different device than usual, say, a laptop rather than your usual desktop. It won't let you, until you change your password via an e-mail they send. So unless your e-mail account is in the hands of RMT, you could go and TELL them your login information and it wouldn't do jack, they still couldn't steal your account. If they tried to log in with your credentials, you'd get an e-mail about it, change the password to something else, and RMT could twiddle their thumbs.