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Over 5000 Final Fantasy XIV Accounts Banned for Real Money Trading | MMORPG.com
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Over 5000 Final Fantasy XIV Accounts Banned for Real Money Trading | MMORPG.com
The banhammer has been brought down in Final Fantasy XIV as over 5000 accounts were banned due to real money transfers.
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To the sellers getting a new account is simply a normal business expense.
Focus on banning buyers instead of sellers. You get the cheats out of the game, people stop buying, and rmt start leaving due to no/limited profits.
According to the courts rmt is a 100% legit service business in the US. So all a mmo company can do is remove the customer base for them to stop it.
This is why i have been talking about Auction house only transactions.There is still a small way around that but not that easy to pull off unnoticed.I do not think RMT will setup shop anymore if their AH accounts were limited to a max of 6/7/8 items and not trading between characters which they like to do to move from low level no care accounts to the bigger money accounts.
Devs need to start getting a grasp on the severity of RMT,that way there will be a real honest market for wares where hard working players are rewarded.Once you allow RMT to take a hold of the economy it ruins it pretty much forever.
I remeber when FFXI finally cracked down on it with a real player task force team,level 7 items went from being ridiculous 2/3/4 million back down to still an inflated 150-300k for what should be a 5-10k max item.
Simple math RMT cause an inflation hike so incredible it would be similar to 100-200+ years in real life inflation.
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Semantics dude....it is illegal within the game according to TOS, no one but you is mistaking this for being criminally illegal. Literally no one cares about this wording but you.
The problem is that people who buy gold from gold spammers are necessarily people who are willing to spend a lot of money on online games. And that's not who developers want to ban, for obvious reasons.
I look forward to your explaining to the NFL that their penalties for Illegal Shift, Illegal Formation, and Illegal Contact (beyond five yards) are invalid. The word "illegal" is commonly used in the sense of against the rules of the game, which is how it is used here.
Ban sellers they buy a new account = more money to company.
Ban buyer lose a sub and no new box sales due to rmt not needing to buy a new account = lose money
Maybe they prefer lose some money than keep in the game bad players feeding bots, sometimes money is nothing, the health of the server and the respect is better than some subs
and its a reflection on society too.....Money decides too many things in life....What happened to morals?
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FYI, their free trial now allows players to play for free through the heavenward content. So many of these banned people will not need to pay a thing to farm more gold.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
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It is just huge resource waste....'
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