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Originally posted by Foddan;278176
Elrar, this was the stance Square-Enix took for years on FFXI. It didn't work. For every character that was deleted/banned or god forbid temporarily suspended, the same RMT company/group/individual would just fire up some of the 50 other accounts they had ready to go and continue duping/botting and selling away. The game economy was out of control for years until they finally took a hard line and started banning RMT accounts as well as any accounts under the same credit card or matching name and address. After 3 years of being subject to the whim of RMT things are approaching a viable in-game market. Yeah there are still RMT and probably always will be, but they are no longer in control of things.

I think the last message I received from RMT about gold was offering something like 50 gold for twelve bits ($1.50 for you youngins). I play casually - I'm a level 37 adventurer with 25 carpentry. My toon might be worth 25-30 gold (at current prices) if I was strip it. It sucks that someone can get what I have for less than a buck and not put any effort into it.

Nuking the dupers and all of their accounts, and eighty-sixing their credit cards and names/addresses is a tactic made of win! I strongly urge you to consider it.



Absolutely - but the comment you quoted me on was a broad term, under that could be any player not just those working for Secondary Market companies. We run IP searches on all banned accounts and do thorough investigations and stings constantly and monitor the cash flow and email spammers through automated processes but more importantly from player reports.

A majority of our ability to stop RMT sales in Vanguard comes from the communities help.

I hope that clarifies

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