We anticipate that even with this update, third parties will continue

[SamSmoot]

Why did you not just make it so that the items can only be bought with credit cards and make it so those credit cards have to match exactly the name and address on the account buying it?

I don't believe merchants can look up the name and address of credit card payers. If they could, my mailbox would be full of flyers from every grocery store I use my card at.

[XaarKrey]

I think they should have just implemented a way to track the source and destination of codes in the existing system. Just an overhaul on how the codes generate.

[LyssaLittleBear]

Squeenix must be getting absolutely slammed by all of the RMT cases, but this won't do anything to help crack down on RMT. The only people this hurts are customers who want to spend money on their friends.

Square Enix, you need to change this somehow because as of right now, this is a very poor business move. We hoped that when you announced coming changes on the cash shop, you would fix the convoluted UI. Why did you break it worse?

[Stormpeaks]

Of course it will continue. The companies make a lot of money as players continue to cheat and destroy the economy. Why would they stop? I approve of SE doing ANYTHING to stop this garbage.

As if this will do anything aside from hurting legit players

[Canadane]

SO you've basically punished the law/rule abiding players for what criminals have done

This isn't the first time this has happened, the most recent one that comes to mind is the Waymark change, where you can no longer change them while in battle.
Cheaters have always ruined games for legitimate players. If you aren't staunchly 100% anti-mod, add-on, and RMT, then I don't know what to tell you.

I do think SE needs to punish buyers more than sellers though, well punish both. A slap on the wrist, or worse, nothing at all isn't going to stop them from buying again.

[Stormpeaks]

This isn't the first time this has happened, the most recent one that comes to mind is the Waymark change, where you can no longer change them while in battle.
Cheaters have always ruined games for legitimate players. If you aren't staunchly 100% anti-mod, add-on, and RMT, then I don't know what to tell you.

I do think SE needs to punish buyers more than sellers though, well punish both. A slap on the wrist, or worse, nothing at all isn't going to stop them from buying again.

Why would you be anti mod/anti addon when it makes the game bearable ?

[LianaThorne]

This isn't the first time this has happened, the most recent one that comes to mind is the Waymark change, where you can no longer change them while in battle.
Cheaters have always ruined games for legitimate players. If you aren't staunchly 100% anti-mod, add-on, and RMT, then I don't know what to tell you.

I do think SE needs to punish buyers more than sellers though, well punish both. A slap on the wrist, or worse, nothing at all isn't going to stop them from buying again.

Real question: How does a mod that gives two races an ability the devs are seemingly unable to provide, despite plenty of vocal feedback from the playerbase, make someone a cheater? Does it provide an advantage in combat that I'm not aware of?

[Havenchild]

This isn't really an issue. You could just buy a gift card and provide the card number to the user. You can use a website like privacy.com to create virtual gift cards with set limits tied to your account. It really isn't much of an issue at all, if your aim was to truly get someone a gift.

[Stormpeaks]

This isn't really an issue. You could just buy a gift card and provide the card number to the user. You can use a website like privacy.com to create virtual gift cards with set limits tied to your account. It really isn't much of an issue at all, if your aim was to truly get someone a gift.

What a nice way to give someone a surprise than to give cash to them so they can buy it themselves, so it ruins the entire purpose of well, the surprise

[Zifeara]

This seems like such a lazy 'solution' that harms players more than the RMT bots, honestly. I understand they want to cut down on fraud -of course they do- but punishing everyone else just trying to give a nice surprise to someone is the worst way to do it. I pray they listen to the backlash and spend time on a real fix for this that doesn't screw over those of us just living life and offering silly little things to others. Or at least maybe they'll listen to the hit to their online revenue if not us because at some point, it will be MOSTLY fraud since all the legit purchases will be driven away.