RMT Enforcement - Something Interesting is happeneing

[Riardon]

Yes the new system definitely works better towards banning those accounts. It definitely feels better now. I just wish they would move and ban people who bot and gather nodes and speed hackers in PvP. I made lots of reports for some specific players and they are still botting 24/7 gathering nodes non stop. Same names same locations same movement paths. SE is doing better for RMT but they also need to take action on gathering bots and hackers.

[Tyrn]

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Maybe something will be done now that there's a financial incentive to see some bots as something other than just "another account that pays a sub, don't care" instead the ones using bots to level jobs could be seen as "this person isn't paying for the level boost".

[Ashua]

Eh. The issue is actually two fold. They are combating RMT and those in business to try to sell gil/housing/whatever for real life money but what about those who are actual players who use bots to farm millions of gil everyday, fate grind all jobs to max and have bots automate the rotation during raids/dungeons? Pvp botting is VERY bad right now with 30-40% of those in the frontlines being bots if you look at the patterns enough. Those are legit players who choose to cheat and need to be banned as well. They need to let us right click to report for possible botting without having to fill out 3 minutes of details and headache just to report one person. 10+ bots in fate I am not wasting my time reporting them all manually.

[Saiah]

What i'd like to learn is how many accounts are being banned for actually using RMT.

[Elkanah]

Certain servers will most likely not be seeing any more rmt's such as Gilgamesh since the server will be closed for over population. So I'd imagine that when capacity reaches a certain point in other servers, they may consider the alternative as well. Which isn't a bad idea. I haven't received a tell from rmt since HW released. Before that though? In ARR? Every fricken day.

[Moonlite]

You can call me silly for this but why hasn't SE tracks the MB's? we all know the RMT's and botters control the shard markets, that would be the first thing they can take action to stopping them outright.It might take time but in the end, they will net a lot more people.

When they talked about this in 11. It was felt more beneficial to allow a certain flow of items and try to catch the big bank rmt. The truth is no one has proof which system is better. But as a player you see instant benefit when they ban a bot. But maybe catching the bank and removing billions of gil is better. It also looks good when they say we eliminated 100 billion gil. Police do this all the time when they report busts to the media.

The pessimist in me thinks allowing those shards into the world is needed. Right now Balmung has 13 stacks just over 14 thousand wind shards total. They start at 79 gil and go to 150. If we got a crafting patch with a few recipes that needed 10+ shards the price could get crazy. If players were paying 1000gil per shard SE would probably have to reevaluate how they distribute the crafting catalysts.


And Holy Necro Batman

While the lock servers every time they delete a bunch they might have to go to plan B. Which in some cases is try to steal accounts. And while you may think it is ok I have an authenticator. They seem to get around this other ways. When money is involved people seem to find ways /sad face.