Warning to Players SE is STILL Banning!Follow

I'm honestly worried because I have a crafting mule with about 35 million gil on it. I sell crafting things, and things in my bazaar, and randomly send money from it to my main character. And as others have said, I've always kept large sums of money on a mule so I don't impulse-buy. I'm actually very Frugal with my money. I'm scared to death though that I'm going to lose what I've built up for years in gil.

And I know if I ever got banned people would just give the same BS arguments "You were obviously doing something wrong!" "Why haven't "I" been banned?" "Stop buying gil!" etc. Swear to God I cannot stand the fanboys anymore. I love FFXI, but people who cannot see some of the enormous mistakes SE has been making lately are completely indenile.

I for one, do not welcome SE's new Autoban-Programs. I don't care if I get RMT /tells or if there are RMT around if that's what it has to mean. It doesn't mean jack when innocent people are being banned.

Endless Journey, thats extremely dangerous thats what I was doing on my Gummynet account the one that was banned. THATS THE EXACT THING... Then they added more then one person had access to my account even though I have a security token on it.

I also have:

2 Sprint Aircards I used on my notebook and a backup wireless 3G router.
1 Verizon Access Card
1 Charter Internet (@Home)
1 AT&T DSL Internet (@Work)

Somehow this is causing red flags also.

I'm thinking at this point, you need to trigger RMT-PWNER 1.337's attention before your account is check for certain criteria now... Problem is they are probably being overwhelmed by how many reports of wrongfully banned accounts.

The changes they made to sky were good ones, but "legit players" botting always seemed to be far more of an issue than RMT when it came to HNM.




There's no denying that the playerbase as a whole complains a lot. But implying that SE's half-assed method of patrolling their game is somehow the fault of the playerbase is ignorant.

If you complained to your city officials that something more needed to be done about crime; there would be a lot of very angry people if the police just started arresting and jailing people without doing an sort of investigation first.

Another day, another streak of bannings. Might as well ban me at this point, it would save me from having to cancel my account.

SE has taken a "Big Brother" approach to this game that is down right scary. I'm getting a lil paranoid about things.

There's a mithra (npc) outside of just about every mog house who asks, "Want to know about gardening?" I scream HELL NO and run away!

I'll /sea all mount zylom (sp) and see the same 5 /anon ppl there all day long and worry that I'll get flagged for rmt if I try mining there.

I essentially cannot change rl banks because SE will ban me if I try to pay my 4+year old account with another cc.

Heaven forbid SE ever makes a mistake billing me. If it's a double, triple or even quadruple charge I'm letting it go.

I cringe with fear everytime I mule gil to my main character.

One day while farming beastmen blood in pashow, a lvl 20 no sub taru whm, naked save a few pieces of lvl 1 gear, came up and asked me the way to jeuno. I was afraid to even speak to him for fear of being caught up in a SE's automated rmtpwner1337.

I'm afraid that all those brogames tells will somehow connect me to rmt via rmtpwner1337. I'm terrified of even mentioning rmt in any form of chat.

I'll feel relieved if SE actually does ban me. I'm tired of looking over my shoulder even though I've done nothing wrong. There's a ton of MMO's out there, no need to put up with SE's fascist methods. And LOL @ the thought of ever playing FFXIV.

edit: and I agree that cool story bro is dudicality -1



Edited, Jul 25th 2009 8:35pm by DukeofTed

Square haven't done exactly what was asked of them and they haven't given the playerbase what they wanted at all.

Your argument is stupid.

It's like having an area of high crime and when people complain to the police, they respond by randomly arresting a load of people every day who look a bit dodgy in the hope some of them might be criminals.

Then they say - "Well, it's your fault for complaining. We gave you exactly what you asked for".

Nonsense.

People rightly pointed out the problems with RMT in the game and SE responded by implementing ****** solutions that have done more harm than good. That's no one's fault but SE and their crappy programmers.

What the player base wanted and asked for were solutions that actually work. No one asked for solutions that punish innocent people.

It's just another indication of what a poor quality company SE is and why committing to FFXIV is probably not a good idea.

I can only hope that the absence of Playonline from FFXIV means better customer service and an overall better experience for the people who do choose to play FFXIV. I guess one can hope SE's customer service will improve with the loss of these guys and they will become more like Blizzard in that if something goes wrong with your account, they will actually help you instead of giving you the standard Playonline answer "we cannot provide more information on this account". Hell, if they just got rid of Playonline for FFXI things might be better for that game as well. *shrug* Either way, not moving to FFXIV even if the customer service is better 100 fold. Not after what happened with FFXI.

That's okay, I know civility isn't "angry mob" mentality, nor is rational thought. I, however, am made of much better stuff. No, realistically, its more like having an area of high crime and when people complain to the police, and demand something be done at all costs, they respond by arresting everyone that commits a crime, regardless of the degree. You might not like it, but RMT were doing the same thing the player base was, but on larger scales. They weren't hacking and making money appear out of nowhere. They were botting (The player base also bots), they were farming (The player base also farms), they were gardening (The player base also gardens), and they were questing (The player base also quests). Square was heavy handed. That sucks, but it doesn't make what I said any less true.

"Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it."

Edited, Jul 25th 2009 11:13pm by lolgaxe

That's cute... you seem to think that playonline and SE are separate entities, or something?

fixed.

I think this is the real explanation.


Edited, Jul 26th 2009 2:26am by Lobivopis

No you're not. Most of the time you're rude, irrational and obnoxious to everyone who doesn't think the same way you do. You're one of the least civil people on the site, hence your reputation.



They haven't banned only people who committed crimes, they have banned loads of people who haven't as well, that's the point. My original analogy was correct.

And the player base didn't get what they asked for.

They asked SE to get rid of the RMT. They didn't ask SE to get rid of innocent players. They wanted action taken to rid the game of the RMT who ruin it for them. What they got was crappy automated software that bans people indiscriminately. They didn't get what they wanted at all.

The notion that no one should ever ask for anything in the world to be fixed because they might get something totally different to what they asked for that makes things worse is a stupid one. Nothing in the world would ever get fixed or improved. Nothing would progress or evolve. Clearly that doesn't work.

If SE had removed all RMT from the game and the game had somehow become poorer for their absence THEN you could have used your 'Beware what you ask for' line. As it is, it makes no sense now.



Edited, Jul 26th 2009 2:01am by jtftaru

Better be careful, the circle jerk protects it's own. Last time he got called on his behavior it ended with the thread being locked.

Edited, Jul 26th 2009 3:15am by Lobivopis

This whole thing is absolutely rediculous . SE has become so incredibly fanatic over catching RMT that they're completely destroying their own game from within. Seriously, SE has started their own virtual Salem Witch Trials! In many MMOs people farm drops from monsters to sell so that the make cash. After all, that is what those monsters/drops are there for right? Obviously SE is not down with this anymore and has stated that YOU CANNOT FARM NMS TOO MUCH OR WE WILL BAN YOU SO DO NOT TRY TO MAKE MONEY! Its only a matter of time before everyone gets banned for things like saying "Man I need more gil" or "Excuse me can you please teleport me ill pay you!" Obviously SE links everything to RMT and it's only going to get worse.