Banned for RMT?Follow

Have to agree the bans are a bit much, and a poor way to keep a revenue going however it seems that they are taking the GitMo approach to RMT oh that person has multiple characters at level one and one mid level character who is broke after buying gear not even a mil has ever been transferred from this account RMT must be involved! Lex Luthor said it best WRONG. They need to put some people with brains behind the desk when they do huge bans. Or atleast Contact the user that the account belongs to that way they can at least explain their situation.

Or not to pull the scare and be the forever pessimiss but forever even. Considering I am a new user my opinion is probably poor but Mass-Action anythings are always bad and bound to be epic fails. A warning system should be put in place before a huge ban just my opinion.

Me too. I am totally shocked. I do garden on 16 characters on only my main and only account and did just harvest a batch the other day. My gardening is pretty random though since there is so much to do on the game.
I also won some gil on the mooglelottery. A nice piece of change not astounding.
I used the gil to finance a bastok dynamis for the wootz ore for thre first time ever. Only 8 dropped but that was nice enough!
Just finished CoPs after years of being on the game. Got my ring yesterday.
I have worked hard at my account and have never supported rmts in any way whatsoever as anyone who has read my posts knows. I hate plers lol. How can I be a rmt and hate plers?
I run a wonderful ls that has the most wonderful people on. I am just an old grandma who loves this game.
This has been such a horrible day and then to log on to this. I hate to admit it but i am devastated.

I've been banned and I do the wildgrass gardening to NPC thing for gil as well. I'm debating whether or not to even care about having my character restored if GMs can just ban us and not have to face the music from us as customers for their mistakes.

Susan I am sorry to hear this as well. And to Prof. Lemmi it is not the GM's faults for the bans but the STF that are responsible and SE for implementing the bans. True we can do nothing but hope our accounts are restored. But GM's should not be getting blame here. STG and SE. But I definitly agree Miori.



Edited, Jul 6th 2009 8:50pm by acheerleader

No I am with you 100% Susan I know how you feel it is a great game that for some people is huge. I fealt the same way when i had got of with the Customer Service reps after waiting all weekend it broke me to be hit with you were part of the RMT Ban issued July 3. And to make it worse I can't plead my case because the people involved probably don't even look at the logical cases. But no I had been off for four months(money issues) and as soon as I can get back I get banned it is just a slap in the Face and I sympathize with you one hundred percent.

I have sent the following email to the Special Task Force via their form at the POL web site.


Who knows if anyone at the STF will read it, let alone do anything about it, but a few words in the right direction never hurt.

Get a link going of where to send that for the not so net savvy people, maybe some of us can force feed that letter or something similar to that effect to get our message across.

This truely sucks. I'm so sorry to hear more cases of wrongful bans. I feel a little more hatred, disappointment, or pity for SE every time I hear of a new ban. I'm not really sure, sometimes it's a mix of the 3, sometimes it's just one. I pity them for being so arrogant that they can't see past their own face. I feel hatred for their lack of care and their lack of action to modify their customer service. I feel disappointed when their system fails once again and they ban someone who isn't RMT, for RMT-related actions.


Regardless of how we all feel about it, this situation will never change without drastic measures. One measure, and by far the best one, is for us all to simply quit. If suddenly they went from 100-300k regular players(and 100-200k RMTs and mules-total 200-600ksubs) down to less than 200k, they'd get a big hint that something was seriously wrong. However I doubt we're all gonna quit like that. xD;
I won't.

There is another drastic action that we can do. Some sort of poll. A customer service poll. 1-10 listing. With a 100 character comment box. When the results are in, have our community leaders here(Pikko, Thayos, Usagichan) put together another article, and an accompanying letter to their specific contact at SE that communicates between the devs and the fansites.

The article should discuss the poll results, and bring to light the various cases such as these in the thread here. SE will be appalled that such issues as wrongful bannings are taking place. Their shock and suprise will be genuine, but moreso because of the article being publicly published, insulting their image. They will be forced to act. It's clear that they have no idea these issues are arising, simply due to their lack of customer service being able to properly get customer issues resolved. These issues being stopped at the low end of the christmas tree, never getting high enough to a person who can actually solve them.

this is ridiculous.

they ban people based on the fact they have multiple gardening mules and they npc the harvest?

Susaninthegarden, I'm sorry to hear this all happened and hope to see you in dynamis real soon.

SE is going after the wrong people and I hope they are able to clear all of you guys after investigating further.

What's happening isn't right.

knip, thank you so much for your comments. It is very comforting to know people care.
I like the idea of a poll, not condemning SE, but asking them to look more closely at the bannings and be more careful in the future and pointing out some of the unfair bannings that have been done recently.
Man it just occurred to me that they could conceivably ban pikko for her gardening.
She even encourages people to garden.

To anyone else who gardens in this manner, stop npcing all the greens on the characters that grow them, get nude on your main and send all the greens there. It's a little extra work but you will make more money on a character with higher fame, and this should help with the false positives that your main is an RMT gil-holder account.

This is crunch time for SE customer service, they've announced their next game and I know by the initial designs that they are hoping for their FFXI players to transition over to their new game (see: Character Design and press releases). If this kind of stuff is allowed to go on, no one from this game will want to try their new one. These aren't problems with the game itself, these are problems with the company, so if it's this easy to lose all your progress on FFXI and not be allowed to state your case, why would anyone in their right mind want to start on a new game just to be banned later for some silly program's false positives?

Probably won't help. All of the platinum leaves garnered from gardening on Miori's mules were sent to another account's main, with high fame, who npc'd them off. She was still banned for it.