Quote Originally Posted by Madbunny View Post
Thats partially true. All those RMT players pay the subscription and many players believe that is the (main) reason why every company behind a successful online game are reluctant to ban RMT-ers. Well at least not in numbers they should be banned. The only exception that i know was GuildWars (the first one) as it was without monthly subscription and man... numbers of banned people were astonishing.

Back to the subject, RMT have more than enough reason to exist and no need to fuel that reason even more.
This is where it starts getting a little sticky. It's clear that there is a significant portion (not necessarily in number, but necessarily in CLOUT) of the game community (at least outside of Japan -- and I'd be interested to find out if the JP servers are having the same camping of housing lots the NA and EU servers are having) who is fully embracing of RMT and other cheating mechanisms. At that point, one has to question, especially if you are right in any portion of RMT being a necessary part of the game, the presence of the Special Task Force.

To me, if Square-Enix is unwilling to actually deal with the bot and RMT problem (and this is going to include getting Legal into the countries where these companies work), they then need to assume that the only real way to do that content is to pay for it with real money -- at which point, welcome to all future housing on the Mog Station.