RMT and Banning Buyers

[Risvertasashi]

here's the problem (and it's the same in crime too): People never think they're going to get caught. They don't factor getting caught into their decision making.

So, going Judge Dredd on them won't really help. On the other hand, if you temp ban first and remove their ill gotten gains... that corrects the perception that one won't get caught. Now they will think about getting caught, and they're much, much less likely to do anything that will get them in trouble.

[BARDS_ARROW]

I know of someone on my server who bought gil once from an off-game website when he returned to the game after a year + of being unsubbed. He didn’t actually know that buying gil was against the rules until he was told by a few people but when he found out, he panicked and gave it away to new players who were struggling (We’ve all been there…), his FC and other people that needed it. Makes me wonder what happened to him, come to think of it.

[Catwho]

It's the first time I read about buyers getting banned. It's usually RMT advertisers/bots since people can't really varify that. They just tell us and "we" believe.

How long did buyers get banned for and when exactly did this happen?

Back in FFXI, my second HNM's leaders were accused of "botting" and got banned. (It was the Fifth Element on Seraph.) It was like our group had been beheaded. They appealed to SE but the decision was final. To this day I'm not sure if I believe SE or if I believe them when they screamed they were innocent. They claimed they were accused of botting, but it's just as likely they were buying gil and got smacked for that. I'll never know the real story.

[BreathlessTao]

Bans are bandaids, and it won't make RMT go away - nothing actually will, so it is kinda pointless to try.

What we do need though, and should have had from the start, is better tools to combat them: hide from searches, limiting tells, etc. Things that I think are rather basic and yet aren't implemented, for whatever reason.

[Immut]

Bans are bandaids, and it won't make RMT go away - nothing actually will, so it is kinda pointless to try.

What we do need though, and should have had from the start, is better tools to combat them: hide from searches, limiting tells, etc. Things that I think are rather basic and yet aren't implemented, for whatever reason.

The reason is that the Japanese are about a decade and a half behind the west when it comes to programming. They simply do not have the skillset to work with the technologies that a modern MMO requires. Especially when it comes to servers and netcode. There's a reason Japanese fighting games are starting to license GGPO for their netcode.

[xXRaineXx]

The reason is that the Japanese are about a decade and a half behind the west when it comes to programming. They simply do not have the skillset to work with the technologies that a modern MMO requires. Especially when it comes to servers and netcode. There's a reason Japanese fighting games are starting to license GGPO for their netcode.

Lolwut

Anyways, I'm on Chocobo server (2nd most populated server in JP), absolutely no RMT here as far I can see. It's more of a cultural thing, sorry, the west is more vulnerable to these kinds of things.