Exactly how obvious do RMT need to be SE?

[Issac]

Every MMO is worse. I don't know about WoW, but -every- MMO I've ever played has been worse. From Archeage with the never-ending-parade-of-bots that they-end-up-comprising-half-the-server, to Mabinogi's Uldah town center that is jam packed with spamming bots, and RMT's sitting out to trade all day, to Wizardry Online doing the same thing, to Tera, SWTOR, Star trek Online, Aion, ... it's all the same trash, and the same websites. The spammers and the RMT'ers two different groups, but they all work for the same crime syndicates.

Never saw all that many in TERA, Aion, or Mabi, though granted I tried Mabi out in its twilight age. Yes, they were there. No one was getting multiple tells each minute.

I don't see your point.

[KisaiTenshi]

Never saw all that many in TERA, Aion, or Mabi, though granted I tried Mabi out in its twilight age. Yes, they were there. No one was getting multiple tells each minute.

I don't see your point.

Short of China cracking down hard on them (by which they would then move to somewhere else, like Syria) they will overwhelm the game. MMORPG's are the darknet or "deepweb" as CSI wants to call it. They all profit from the proceeds of crime when there is too much RMT activity. The real life version of this are 419's. There are very real consequences to RMT.



TERA, Aion and Mabinogi are all games that I played at some point, and the RMT activity ranged from nonstop spam to players overwhelming the party/announcement system with their own spam.

In FFXIV I just had enough of it and took Announcements and tells out of the General log and put it in another log and remove sounds from it. Now I don't have to see it when it appears. But Excalibur doesn't get very many owing to the fact that you can't ever create new accounts on the server except for the tiny window around 2-3am.