Has Square Enix given up on countering RMT and botting?

[KageTokage]

So far, it seems like the only time changes happen in regards to illicit activity is if:

1. Someone presses the devs about it directly in an interview.

2. The devs themselves notice a problem during one of their community interaction sessions (Yoshi got RMT spammed once which made him promptly add the quick report function for RMT).

3. The activity in question is so blatantly disruptive that it's making some aspect of the game legitimately unplayable (The Rival Wings hackers who got trial accounts blocked from PvP until further notice).


I think the best chance of anything happening is for one of the influencers in the community who routinely are able to get in direct contact with the devs to be made aware of the issues and bring it up, because there's clearly a disconnect that's making it difficult to get anything noticed by them via the forums and other media.

The one time they did actually invite the head of the STF onto a live letter interview session just made it painfully obvious how unaware even they seem to be of how broad the scope of cheating is because they seemed to be thinking that the bulk of the botting was taking place in PvP (Where it is a problem, but not nearly to the extent of the other parts of the game), and the only response they could offer to the complaints of inaction was "Just keep reporting them.", so I feel like only the head developers can be counted on to resolve anything at this point.