I know plenty of people engaging in RMT, all 1400+. Nothing has been done to them, neither 3 day bans nor removal of gold. I know at least 5 of them have bought 1m+ at this point. I do believe they are doing 3 day bans as people have reported that on the forums and reddit but I’ve never seen anyone say they’ve had gold removed.
why mess around. RMT = permanent ban
The bots are worse after the VPN block. I just sat in a 3000 queue. Channels are full of them right now. It’s a real bad look. If they don’t get control of this soon the game is gonna be done for. The RMT is destroying the game economy and definitely affects the developers profits as well. I say permaban the players involved. A 3 day ban is nothing
Don’t worry, a portion of the people who RMT are some of the same people who cap out on the game’s weekly spending limit. Amazon will just give them a 3 day slap on the wrist if they are caught so they can come back next week to buy more :^)
They just need to drop their own rates to mstch the bots. Then i wont slap myself everytime i make a purchase through ags.
Exactly, no punishment to RMTers = more RMT = more bots.
Even they just ban some of then it will help. Now people take no risk to buy black gold and it is much cheaper then why should they consider buy it from elsewhere?
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Yah, permbans with official announcements will go a long way to scaring some people off. Even if some people still RMT, at least some will be more afraid especially if they already have a 1400+ account.
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Criminal Justice studies show that it is far more the certainty of punishment than the severity of punishment that discourages crime. Same basic principle applies here to RMT. But I see no reason not to make the punishment, especially for recidivism, severe.
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I really hope we get some sort of communication that they are at least working on or have done something about RMTers recently.
as a f4 player im super sad
Hanoth via Lost Ark Forums <lostark@discoursemail.com> 于2022年5月1日周日 04:04写道：
Perfect examples for RMT:
My offer to get solution:
- permaban for RMTs
- pre-imposed prices for items at marketplace with a minimum and a maximum price
pre-imposed prices for currency exchange with a minimum and a maximum price- delete sending gold, other currencies and items between players by via mail or personal trading, players can trade via marketplace, but for ex. while events send gifts as restricted items mentioned in event, this should be a good block for RTMs
- add only by personal trading between players potions bought from general merchant
- more f4 store items at market to recompensate their pre-imposed prices like crystalline aura
- limit bying f4 store items from marketplace like 1 per 100 roster level (if 300 roster u can order or buy 3 items at the same time)
Just the game by sending items/gold or trading them between players allowed and still alows to grow bots=RMTs in numbers, by deleting these options RMTs have no option to work so this cures the game.
In my opinion good economy state of the game draws more attention of players that wants to play the game than RMTs = bots that ruin economy.
If I missed something or you don’t like my ideas, critic opinion would be appreciated.
That would punish people who are their income source. Do you think they would really do that ?
That won’t punish, because if min and max currency exchange won’t change the current price, it wouldn’t change current situation at all and it wouldn’t ruin players budget if someone wants lower a bit price or higher up the price. Then it would be a limit that won’t ruin economy there. Without limit there’s no control over it, the same as market prices.
Max prices always punish people.
When the item prices will raise, and it will. It wont be profitable for whales to buy gold from official store, which would mean that they will stop doing it which means people would not be able to buy blue crystals for gold and the game would shut down.
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That’s the point, you’re right. But except exchanging currency, what’s you opinion about the rest?
Hmm. Those limitations may hurt a real players too.
Remove 3 day waiting time for usable gold from the currency exchange. This is what incentivise people even more to buy instant gold from RMT. Waiting time is higher than maximum allowed time to have your item listed on the market. Thats stupid. People sometimes buy gold to get an extra cash and grab a good item from the market.
About bans. Perma wont work. The most psychologically punishing ban is 3-6 month ban, add removal of attained via rmt gold and you are good. 3 months wpuld be enough as it wpuld make people think of they want to maybe continue playing.
All those solutions really ignores the core issue. Why are bots in the game. Its resource scarcity that created demand which the bots solves.
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Still in RU/KR they found solution so what’s the thing here with bots?
My bad, RMT is also there…
They have their social identity number tied to their accounts. This is why they dont have bot problem. People just literally cant create bots.
Yes, RMT is still there but they have better control over it. I know that this social identity number can be em… illegaly used to create and account. I have seen in the old days people from the west doing that to play Kr versions of some old mmos.
RMT is there because its cheaper than official gold. If you have 1:4 ratio of $/gold between official currency exchange vs rmt exchange then what do you think a bit poorer people will do ?
They can have automated system to track selling gems for stupid amount of gold like t2 gems for 50k or 100k. ( busses are not that expensive ). Also from what i understand, the bots cant buy a high tier accessories so lower level ones could be checked during maintanance.
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I forgot to mention that players should have option to report bots and after succesfull banning of confirmed bot they should be rewarded. Players would solve this problem a lot faster.
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