Region Locking servers to stop RMT?

[Hayward]

Like many other players, I am sick of getting inundated with /tells from these RMT clowns. I am wondering if SE could consider locking servers by region. What I mean is North American servers playable only by North American consoles & PCs, Euro servers by Euro consoles/PCs, and so on. My guess is that this would get around the IP address spoofing tactics from these Chinese criminals.

I'm not sure myself if this would be effective or not, but I'm at my wits end with this RMT trash.

[Silkerin]

so you are saying i should stop playing with my NA friends because i dont live in the same country? thanks alot bud for your great idea!

[Xlantaa]

That's not a solution. VNP can fix that and also, RTM are not all from china. And more importan thing, a lot of players forced to change server an not be able to go with his firends. Won't fix anything, and the consecuences will be too high.

[Ashkendor]

No thanks. I enjoy having EU players around and don't see how this could possibly help.

Besides, then my static would have to look for another Scholar since ours is German.

[AlphaFox]

Likewise, if they put region locks my FC would practically be disbanded.

[Myrhn]

Who says Chineses are the only RMT?

[Khalithar]

Who says Chineses are the only RMT?

TERA does. They put a region lock preventing all access from China and the asian region. As a result the game has little to no RMT whatsoever. Yeah yeah I've heard there are allegedly ways around this, but TERA has remained almost entirely RMT free for it's duration because of this blocking asian traffic and any attempts around it as far as we know have been very unsuccessful. The very few RMT that do pop up from time to time are usually dealt with very swiftly. Any of you that think this wouldn't put a dent in them or wouldn't work are mistaken. TERA proves it.

[Myrhn]

TERA does. They put a region lock preventing all access from China and the asian region. As a result the game has little to no RMT whatsoever. Yeah yeah I've heard there are allegedly ways around this, but TERA has remained almost entirely RMT free for it's duration because of this blocking asian traffic and any attempts around it as far as we know have been very unsuccessful. The very few RMT that do pop up from time to time are usually dealt with very swiftly. Any of you that think this wouldn't put a dent in them or wouldn't work are mistaken. TERA proves it.

You just prove my point. TERA have the block and RMT still exist. There are more far between but they still exist. What about the people that live there that like to play with people outside their country? What about the people that want to play with people from over there?

[Colorful]

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I know plenty of people that play from Asian regions, hell it makes up at least half of the English population on Tonberry. I believe even some Chinese players play on our version, but I can't say if it's large amount there. SE isn't going to do anything that is going to make them lose money, and blocking regions will make them quite a bit of subscribers I'd assume. Besides that, I'm 99% sure TERA only has IP blocked regions due to licenses in those regions that they weren't able to secure as it is with almost all KR MMORPGs.

[Nagrom]

Look it's not going to work for the simple fact that RMT are not bored internet trolls that give up when new hurdles are put up. This is a job for them, they are going to clock in cause not doing so means they don't get a pay check. Having things like lights, food, water, and a roof over your head are far more powerful motivators than anything SE or you can ever think of to make them stop.

Region locking will only effect the legit players who play on servers outside their region, and at best will buy you 2 weeks without RMT spam before they get all their ducks in a row and come back just as hard as before.