Since the end of last year, item values have risen astronomically on all Worlds due to the manipulation of prices by a small percentage of the player base. The development team and the GMs carried out a detailed investigation of this problem, and discovered the existence of a group using illicit methods to produce large amounts of gil that are later sold in the real world (Real Money Trading). We would like to take this opportunity to outline the measures that have been taken to correct this issue.
Based on the results of this investigation, more than 700 accounts among those found to be involved in large-scale RMT operations have been terminated. We will continue to monitor accounts suspected of dealing in gil created or obtained in an unfair manner.
Thanks to these measures, more than 300 billion gil has been removed from circulation, and the overly inflated prices of items have begun to fall to more realistic levels.
Furthermore, emergency maintenance has already been performed on all worlds for the purpose of implementing RMT countermeasures. This maintenance took place over two stages, starting on January 17th.
As has been previously stated, acts of RMT will not be tolerated in FINAL FANTASY XI, and any violations of the user agreement will be dealt with severely. We would like to assure our players that all efforts are being made to ensure a fair playing experience.
We hope to have your continuing understanding and cooperation in creating a Vana'diel that everyone can enjoy.
I think this is more or less helping IGE get their prices back to profit range than just eliminating RMT.
Currently a group of RMT is active in sky camping Zipa pop items. Hope they get rid of them instead of having to worry about some stupid MPK crap they try to pull on us everytime.
I just remembered.... didn't they do something like this right around this time last year? I seem to remember SE banning 800 or so accounts right around Valentines Day. Good to see the "Valentines Day Massacre" again...
Either way, they missed some accounts. There's still 4-5 bots in Gusgen and Old Movalpolus. ; ;
The point isn't to get rid of the gilfarmers, SE got rid of the mules that stockpile the gil, hurting IGE in their pockebooks. If you get rid of the gilfarmers, they'd just level up new chars, getting ride of the mules that actually hold the gil hurts IGE as a business, not the individual actually farming the gil.
Those zip whoring guys are a pain, do you mean the group with Haxxa in? He just sits at the byakko entrance and out of nowhere his ls appears when zip pops.
And some ppl being doing the calcalutiosn that 300 billion gil is about 1.5 milll outo f iges pockets or something.
But, if you have read the HK forum about Shiva server, you will know this action is meaningless.
Many innocent players with the same address input as some RMT in the account information are also banned, but the real RMT (the shop owner) is still playing.
no doubt that stuff will happen, yk. but is bliz just doing a blanket ban on an IP range? if so, that's retarded. i thought they would investigate players in an IP range, and see if you got 10 mules each loaded with 50mil gil... and maybe check your mailbox history.
i don't see why they would generalize like that, that fucks a lot of normal players.
SE could never do an IP ban because of the number of people using dynamic IPs, they'd have to do an entire subnet which would ban a LOT of innocent people. They could've banned based on credit cards? If all those people were in the same location, maybe they all paid with the same card or something? I dunno but I seriously doubt they would do an IP ban.
