It is a known, ugly fact in the MMO world that developers/publishers engage in whaletracking and won’t ban them because they like money more than delivering an actual good product with good player experiences.
Is not only in MMO world, this is what is the main purpose of every business is. To earn as much as possible. The old world where quality really matter is lost in every industry. The expensive clothes are garbage, the new cars has nothing to do with the old one etc
If they got irrefutable proof that someone RMT’d and not just speculate ban (ofc, I don’t support speculating that someone RMT’d and then perma banning them), then those people shouldn’t get a slap on wrist 3 day, 7 day, etc ban.
Basically 5 players in my guild RMTed to 1370 by buying between 200k-500k gold . They have not received bans, they openly admitted to it in guild chat, and they dont care that they are messing up the in game experience for everyone.
I reported them but honestly it seems like amazons stance on this is “Yea feel free to rmt in ‘small’ amounts. you probably wont be banned, and if we do decide to ban you it will be for 1-3 days.”
Obviously they have said otherwise, but from my point of view and the things ive seen, it really seems like they just dont care.
RMT is baked into the game. The game IS P2W and you can pay money DIRECTLY to the devs for power.
Since this is how the game is designed, people who circumvent the “official” system aren’t actually doing anything “that bad” in terms of the integrity of the game.
So, they don’t really deserve a perma ban. AGS just wants to convert them to the official store, that’s all.
AGS doesn’t want to ban people who are willing to spend money. They want to nudge them into the official store, obviously.
The game, by design, supports this basic idea: Money goes in. Power comes out.
So since that idea is supported, there’s nothing inherently terrible about RMT. It’s not like insider trading in the stock market or something like that.
It’s bad, but it’s not that bad. Hope that clears things up.
If there were more worry about yourself instead of what others do and have the forums would be 75% less. Login, do you and don’t worry about what other people are doing.
The good news is that going by the decreasing price of crystals it is evident that there is less people buying gold from 3rd parties and more buying RC from the official store.
More people buying from 3rd parties - increase in gold cost of crystals
More people buying RCs and selling them for gold (the legit way to get gold by RMT) - decrease in gold cost of crystals.