RMT Enforcement - Something Interesting is happeneing

[Niwashi]

Since we are seeing that increase in bans not in the advertising category, it seems that SE may have become better at tracing bots, or that the enhanced reporting has uncovered many more RMT accounts that could then be traced to others

I'd always been under the impression that the RMT companies already kept their advertising bots and gil gathering/selling bots completely separated, so that nothing could be traced from one group to the other. Either I was wrong about that, or else SE changed more than just the reporting feature we can see from our end. (I suspect the later.)

[Kosmos992k]

I'd always been under the impression that the RMT companies already kept their advertising bots and gil gathering/selling bots completely separated, so that nothing could be traced from one group to the other. Either I was wrong about that, or else SE changed more than just the reporting feature we can see from our end. (I suspect the later.)

I agree. I also wonder how easily the RMT can fully separate/hide their spam bot accounts. If they are running them from separate game accounts on the same clients or even the same subnet as they also run other accounts, then it may be possible to collect meta data on the client system, VPN, ISP, etc... that could be used to search for other accounts. Also, I am certain though that SE should by now have been able to establish certain behavioral traits that bots and other types of account share, to allow them to more swiftly locate and trace RMT.

To be honest, chasing down RMTs for a living actually carrie3s a certain appeal for this gamer. I spend so long looking at huge data sets trying to find patterns or anomolies while 'mining' information from the data, tracing RMTs would be right up my ally.