RMT, STF and GMs (again, probably) [Rep response please, polite thread]

[AndySolace]

Firstly, just take a look at the image for a second. I'm sure its not an unusual sight across the servers. Which is a shame.

Bit of back story. I was doing leves and behest at Bearded rock not too long ago (half hour?) and saw a guy there accepting trades from RMT farming parties. Remembering what happened last time I attempted to contact a GM about anything RMT related, I went to the support site and left a message, filled out correctly, with detail, and moved on to here [Cederwood] to continue my leves and behests.

Now, upon arrival... these.... things.... slowly began to spawn in swathes! This picture doesn't even do it justice out here....

Having just been to STF, and knowing the requesting a GM even come LOOK at this little lot will result in a robot sending me an email telling me to go to STF...

I have to ask what in the hell are we supposed to do next?

Support centre form field says something like:

"Reported characers: if more then one, seperate names with a "comma"."

HOW!?!?

"Max 300 byte characters"

Won't work!

Is it too much to hope that the STF will EVER leave feedback on its progress? Or will ever make any progress?

Further; I hope its not possible to change your character name come ARR, otherwise
"Bshgjhhgjhg Bjhjshjgjkjhg" might well become the next "Justin Beiber", be sold to a noob somewhere and vanish under the carpet without a trace like we all wish he would in reality! Ok, last bit, maybe just me.



STF? More like WTF...

[Kallera]

I agree, been seeing way too much if this on my server. This needs to be dealt with, and decisively.

[Molly_Millions]

Maybe they just won't transfer them to the ARR servers. Wouldn't that be sweet justice?!

[Mijin]

You know, trying to get SE to get rid of gold sellers is like asking a doctor to get rid of aids. It cant be done. If they ban they they will just keep coming back, and if they change the system to mess up their gil making schemes they will just find another way. In the end it's a waste of resources. The only way to get them to go away is if people stop buying, and that will never happen.

I'll just throw in my two sense on the subject of buying; if you buy you're an idiot. The prices are so exorbitant compared to how long it takes to make gil in this game it seems criminal.

[darkm0d]

As it's been said many times, these are all paying accounts that are helping fund the rebirth of XIV ARR whether you like it or not.

No one should ENJOY RMT but they will be in any game that has people stupid enough to buy in-game currency. To me, though it does seem as if it would be less than simple to deal with the problem. SE could decipher an RMT name from a normal name easily enough, but purging all of the accounts would just result in them losing some good revenue.

[Keyln]

It's up to the Special Task Force Unit to save the day!

[Sephrick]

I have to ask what in the hell are we supposed to do next?

Move on with your life.

They're not affecting anyone else's gameplay. SE has to abide by they're own rules, and if they're not breaking the Terms of Service, then there isn't much SE can do accept keep an eye on them. Until they start with tells advertising their Web site there's no bannable offense here.

[Kallera]

To the naysayers: Would you honestly trade damage to the game economy and community for a small number of short term subscriptions? The amount of revenue they are bringing in is likely not nearly as much to make this acceptable.

How many more subscriptions does it take for them to start advertising in shout channel with your blessing? Or using stuff like mooglebox, fantaji to do so?

[AndySolace]

Maybe they just won't transfer them to the ARR servers. Wouldn't that be sweet justice?!

Yeah, that's my underlying hope. So long as they're tracking them.

[leomax]

SE likes to track things for a while, I'm guessing there will be a mass ban at ARR?