Originally posted by jtoast;284336

Let us know where you end up man.....I still owe you a game of DDR.

Originally posted by liliputt;278417

Thanks Elrar. Gotta wonder why SOE dont notice one of their servers has gone down thou.

Originally posted by Foddan;278176

Elrar, this was the stance Square-Enix took for years on FFXI. It didn't work. For every character that was deleted/banned or god forbid temporarily suspended, the same RMT company/group/individual would just fire up some of the 50 other accounts they had ready to go and continue duping/botting and selling away. The game economy was out of control for years until they finally took a hard line and started banning RMT accounts as well as any accounts under the same credit card or matching name and address. After 3 years of being subject to the whim of RMT things are approaching a viable in-game market. Yeah there are still RMT and probably always will be, but they are no longer in control of things.

I think the last message I received from RMT about gold was offering something like 50 gold for twelve bits ($1.50 for you youngins). I play casually - I'm a level 37 adventurer with 25 carpentry. My toon might be worth 25-30 gold (at current prices) if I was strip it. It sucks that someone can get what I have for less than a buck and not put any effort into it.

Nuking the dupers and all of their accounts, and eighty-sixing their credit cards and names/addresses is a tactic made of win! I strongly urge you to consider it.

Originally posted by Krisrath;278008

Look its about time to just man up and delete the duped money across all servers. People that will whine about 'hard earned money' being deleted oh well. Its dirty money, you know when you start getting paid hugely inflated prices for stuff that your recieving dirty money.

Putting in measures to drain money out of the economy is not a solution here. Your going to end up doing things that reward the people that took advantage of the massive influx of duped cash. Or you'll penalize those that stayed away from it.

Some ideas on the table are probably a casino type thing, spend lots of money for a chance at a really nice or unique item. Maybe temporary vendors where you can buy rare and or ultra rare resources. All the gear made from these will be BOE so the money will sink out of the economy. Perhaps we will see consumables put into game. Heal pots, buffs in a bottle, illusions, etc. Maybe even the ability to use bribe money to pull levers instead of using diplomacy. All reward the people that have lots of the duped gold.


On the other hand your left with increasing the costs of repairs and/or items such as arrows or components used by crafter I.E. Fuels and such. Which will drain money but penalize those that haven't made a bunch of cash due to the inflated prices.

But I guess its all about numbers. Less people are likely to stay away from the dirty money. You'll piss off a larger portion of the playerbase by deleting the money. Less cancellations by taking money sink route.

Another problem with not deleting the duped money is that it also shows that sigil does not have the conviction to take a shot at the RMT problem. Deleting the duped money will strike a blow at them, granted they will recover they always do. But it will also make people think twice about buying gold if in fact the gold they bought is deleted.

Originally posted by Thisle1234;277505

I agree, i think we deserve some kind of responce from Brad or a dev on wtf is going on. When i say "wtf is going on?" i mean:


Anyone?