Square's new RMT solution. Will it work?

[NinjaDante]

Any attempt to combat RMT that inhibits normal players is poorly conceived and detrimental to the game. For example the fact that you can't friend your own alts, or this limit on friend requests, SE needs to put the power to deal with RMT in player's hands rather than just limit what everyone can do. I'd rather get more gilseller tells than have what i can do be limited

[Welsper59]

Any attempt to combat RMT that inhibits normal players is poorly conceived and detrimental to the game. For example the fact that you can't friend your own alts, or this limit on friend requests, SE needs to put the power to deal with RMT in player's hands rather than just limit what everyone can do. I'd rather get more gilseller tells than have what i can do be limited

Limitations to normal people because of disruptive crowds is a normal thing that everyone everywhere has in place, be it IRL or in-game. It's why we have currency, it's why we have virus scans, it's why we have laws, etc. In a perfect world, relying on players to police themselves in this day and age would be great... but reality would show itself immediately. I swear, I wouldn't even trust a single random person on this game with holding 1 gil. I really don't see the big deal on the 5 friend request daily limit too, given that unless you FR 6+ people every single day, you're probably going to live through this. Worst case, they could befriend you instead. Besides, if that were the case, your Friend's List must already be full.

Having said this however, I'm still very much in the mind that this was a pointless limitation to make and simply affects legit players more than the intended target. As I said in a different thread, this change is one based on the idea of being inconvenienced enough to stop or slow an action. RMT operate almost exclusively on bots to do their farming and advertising. They do not stop doing what they're programmed to do. Bots do not feel inconvenienced.