Quote Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi View Post
It's a thing with all MMO's, usually stripping an account is caused by players engaging in RMT
Yeah let's see...

I also have played or still play: WoW, Wildstar, Elder Scrolls, Guild Wars 1 & 2, Everquest 2, Tera, Blade and Soul, Age ofConan (for about 1 hour... ick), City of Heroes (a moment of silence please for a fallen friend), Neverwinter, Champions Online, Black Desert, and a few random things here and there...

This is the only game that is so alt-hostile.

I get that you can play every class on a single toon, but you can't play every race at the same time on the same CHARACTER... so I and others have alts.

And in ALL of those other games, I can send things around between various characters.

Yet it is this game that has had the most problems with RMT of them all. Guild Wars 2 came close at launch... but a few days in they banned 30,000 accounts in one hit, forced a password change for all users, blocked any password that had ever been used by ANYONE from being used by anyone ever again (*)... and that was it...

* (so if you had the password "12345", the system would not let me have that password)

The RMT issues are not alt related... they're account security related.

On launch day of this game, I was watching as people I was talking to or standing next to in game vanished, then logged back in minutes later and started spamming RMT offers...

Me... I got an SE Token, that 'one-time' thingy...

If everyone had that, we'd be done talking about RMT here... (*)

*(Hackers have recently showed proof of concept for cracking into two-factor authentication, but the process is complex and involves gaining access to a Wi-Fi network and a two-factor system that is using that same network: as in... if somebody hacks your two-factor... it means they're sitting outside your house in that black van with the guys in mirrorshades in it... you got bigger problems at that point... one of which might be "seeing things" that aren't there... ).