I do not want to tempt anyone here now BUT I noticed something that is very questionable.
It is not everyone stupid RTM operates and both buyers and sellers can communicate.
There are just in the higher range people who sell jewelry for actually much too utopian prices and everyone says to them “but no one buys it anyway”.
And suddenly, by chance, someone always buys it.
it would not be surprising if there is always someone who actually buys something BUT not always conspicuously with the same person.
The advantage for the seller is that such items often still have a resale value. and then simply cheaper again reingestellt.
So that they have recovered a little money.
Fact is there are a bunch of Relic items in the AH which are only 1x tradable where I think no one is so that he buys something that would be BIS for his build and says “hey better I sell it again cheaper”.
often these items are not at top prices in there.
Sure there are “item flippers” but that is often too risky and I also do not think that such people would then put parts for actually much too little purely if they want to flip them.
Example
a ring with
63% Qualy
Raidcaptain 5
Grude 3
negative 2
no one would resell for only 16k and still it is only for 16k in there as if you just want to get rid of it quickly.
fact is such a thing can of course hardly prove but it is coincidentally always the same people (also streamer) who sell such things for utopian sums.
Thats how most rpgs with RMT work honestly. In PoE, you’d trade a rare (yelllow item with randomized affixes) for whathever amount you want, and it won’t be deemed suspicious at all. Cause the game can’t automatically detect what is not worth in a trade.
same applies here. Everyone charges whathever amount they want, and people pay whathever they deem worth. This includes gems.
But in all honesty, i think that you are giving way too much credit to devs when assuming that people need to use these shady methods such as an acessory. The reality is that they have no flagging at all, and probably rely entirely on player reports - gigawhale gets multiple reports for being a whale, players report it and devs take action if they see some fishy transactions. Nothing automated at all.
Which would mean that there are no autoflagging measures at all, given that this is a grey area and would require a ton of careful analysis from moderators regarding every single flagged player.
It will be difficult flagging these AH transactions, as what constitutes RMT? who defines market value?
What if the Bot wants to buy items to flip themselves? Banning/ negative gold for those that received money through AH is this fair?
So many unknowns. Feels like the VPN all over again, affecting legitimate players what ever you do if they clamp down on AH transactions
I do suspect some streamers receive RMT and brag the amount they sold X for, when in fact they swiped black market style. One streamer bragged they sold an item for 79k for example. Unheard of
That’s what I’m talking about. I’m glad I’m on EUW there aren’t that much bots that I get a waiting queue but I never know it it’s some day like other server regions
Honestly, they should just look at characters/accounts that are at 1470-1490 and how many t3 level 9-10 gems they have and give them the perma ban.
If they compare the status of the average t3 players or have some data charts to show where people should be at the current state of the game after 3 months since launch, then they could prob determine whos RMT/who isn’t.