Don’t need to ban them, just remove the purchased gold and let them negative the same amount.
I read that they are doing that but strongly doubt it since there are still so many bots.
And they weren’t spending the amounts of money the whales are putting in lost ark.
Oh but they complained for weeks. Outrageous comments demands. And lies. Oh the lies. I couldn’t explain how many lies I’ve encountered during that time of my life. Even we were amazed at people throwing untrue statements out there. Every single person that got manually banned, lied first. And the funny part is we have all the data in front of us, whatever they claim we can just post the proof of them lying. It’s very easy actually to manage PR. You as a game owner have a bigger audience than that lying player, always. Players want to believe you first than that angry player. And when you issue a statement with actual data, no matter how loud they are, they just aren’t credible anymore so the outcome is always positive.
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Ahh yes, making something illegal stops activities in their tracks. Just like drugs ammirite.
No, okay seriously. What you are saying sounds cool, but how are they gonna catch RMT without false positives? There are many interesting ways people can make payments to each other, and they can just make them in smaller increments.
How do you know that the relic who was sold on AH for 100K is RMT or not? You cannot really do that without extensive analyse per case basis. Nobody is gonna do that.
It only seems obvious right now because they do it without pheon, but if they have to, they will bear the pheon price.
ban the buyers? but then you would lose customers and no company wants that
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Just a picture for you guys:
Imagine a customer who is regularly going into a supermarket who brings 300 cats with him. Those cats shit money which he uses to buy a few small things. Meanwhile the cats block the door, so no other customer can come in. They also stink, so that all other customers leave the supermarket instantly and forever.
Would you let this customer stay or would give him shop ban?
depends on whether this customer spend more money or others
Good job but amzon just want ban ip laugh 
He does not, because he gives everything he has to the breeder of the cats… 
It’s actually so much simpler. It’s about percentages. If a high enough percentage of RMT are punished with gold removal + temp ban the problem will go away. AGS doesn’t want to perma ban spenders, they want to convert them to spending on the shop. Nobody would RMT if there was a high chance of being caught. The fact is the chance is so insanely small or you would see a lot more people complaining on the forums (claiming a false positive), discord, guilds, etc.
They need to be more aggressive and punish a higher percentage. They could permaban at their current rate of punishment and nothing would change. Too few are caught.
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how about thinking before speaking ?
RMTers are the worst thing for ags - the are buyers. Buyers from Bots. Ags only LOSE and Gains NOTHING.
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ban the buyers.
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Unfortunately this may lead to many false bans at the same time
This is the only solution. Ban them all. First ban 3 days and loss of gold and second is perma.
Its not the first time reading this, most people here know the way how to deal with bots, why ags not?
They only use the lazy cast a wide net approach that doesn’t take them effort. The bots will be back again in a few days and then in a couple of weeks they can do it again and say they did something.
Thats true but i never saw any rmt to be hard punish for that. If they ban rmt people forever, no one will actually take a risk to buy anymore from bots. What the point fight with bots, when you can actually fight people who rmt
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Bots back up and running after banwave already. Buyers need to be given the iron hand and not make RMT violations situational. If you can’t stop the supply you stop the demand.
This is the point, and I’m ready to answer every “BUT” on this matter. There’s something shady going on. The only thing they did was a 3-day suspension. Bots will always get back up unless as a game owner you make it meaningless to do so. (punish everyone that buy from bots) Therefore they spend the energy on some other game.
What’s there to get so confused about it on the AGS side?
It’s like there are rules bot nobody is enforcing them. It’s a total chaos out there. Imagine going on a killingspree in a shopping mall and get a slap on the wrist by police and 3 day stay-at-home notice.
What is going on honestly?