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O RLY? Lets ask the Code of Conduct what HE thinks, OK?



See, here's the thing. The second clause doesn't negate the first clause, its still prohibited to use any programs at all. Period. Windower, Winamp, Ventrillo, FRAPS, and MSN messanger are all on equal footing here as programs that aren't provided or specified by Square Enix, regardless of how many people want to run them. The fact that SE probably doesn't care has no bearing on the fact that their rules say they are prohibited offenses.

Anyways, the ToS isn't the only thing you agree to. Try looking at those lines of text that appear by the "Accept Button" next time you log in and you see that there is, in fact, another contract you "sign" every time you play. Perhaps you should consider reading it sometime, and enlightening yourself? It would sure save you the embarrasment of spewing smarter-than-thou babble about something you clearly know more than nothing but certainly not everything about :)

Ive noticed this too. Im a mid-level Goldsmither on Gilgamesh (47.4), on the gold ingot stage.When the bans were announced, there was around 5 on sale at jeuno. Now theres over 60 and price has went down to about a third in a few days T_T. Im not that worried though. If the STFU keep it up,them maybe some of us players will be making gil at christmas instead of RMT makin money ^^ Heres lookin to a happy christmas! Keep it up stfu, though i do think atcually having a presence in the game would cause more of an impact. If not for cathing accounts, then at least to give a little hope to the rest of us that we may soon be able to play the game the way its meant to. :D

This might be fun. Wouldn't it be great if SE would identify the gilseller bots and make them valid targets for attack? Especially if the players could loot their corpses! I know, this won't work in reality (reality?) but it makes me smile everytime I pass a craft-bot or fish-bot!

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR 2 AND A HALF YEARS! It's finally coming. We're finally seeing prices drop and an RMT-free Sky! Only thing next is to get rid of all of those damn RMT taking all the money NMs.

Lets be honest here. SE only started mass banning the RMT when they stood to loose more from legit players quitting the game than they did from banning RMT accounts.

Edited, Dec 1st 2006 3:13pm by Lobivopis

If SE wants a suggestion, here's one:

Watch the World of Warcraft team. Do what they do.

SE,

Thank you for stepping up to the plate regarding the #1 issue that was ruining your game. I won't applaud you too much, because this measure was necessity a long time ago & should have been anticipated & enacted when it first became necessary, but, as with any large corporation... these things take time.

I think you've done an fantastic job, recently, at purging your servers of "RMT" and botters, both of which put themselves at an unfair advantage to your standard player base. I think that the "across the board bannings" that you recently enacted where a godsend, in relation to your game.

Additionally, you do & will have more work to do.

I am sincerely hoping that SE and the Special Task Force will stand as firm and as resolute as it's most recent action was both decisive and strong. The botters and the RMT will be a continuing cycle, where they will level themselves up, start devising a way develop a profit margin, and it will be at that point that the Special Task Force will be able to eradicate them, based off of the results of the inquiries that the Special Task Force undertakes.

They (the RMT) will, of course, come back. Hopefully though, if SE is resolute and inventive and firm, they will eventually stop because of the realization that there is no longer a profit margin in between the cost of leveling up & subsquently camping NMs (or crafting or w/e) and then getting banned.

As a player, I am extremely happy that you have taken on this grand undertaking. I feel that you have done an excellent job, and am once again a proud virutal face in the sea of a brave new world.

If you stand resolute, this issue will decline! Keep up the great work!

On a personal note, please take a look at the post: http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=46;mid=1165367083154531927;num=2;page=1 on these boards, if you don't mind.

Many Thanks,

Wish of Lakshmi

So this is the reason crafting has plummeted recently?

on Odin server one of our LS members changed jobs, forgot to change macros and accidentially threw away his Bibiki seashell which is not replaceable (1 time quest). This occured 5 days prior to the posting of the new GM rules. having read the new post saying that items accidentillay lost can be returned if reported within 7 days , I instructed the said member to call a GM and request his item be returned. The GM informed him he needed to know the exact time and date the item was thrown away !!!! you have got to be kidding me right ^^No where does it say that the player must keep an accurate log of items lost and record the exact time when the item was lost. Well one of 2 things are going on IMO as we new the date but not the exact time: 1. this was one lazy *** GM who didnt feel like doing any customer service at that time or 2. the policy doesnt exist and we are being spun like a political add campaign??? Although a response to this question and accusation would be appropriate i certainly do not expect to ever get one>.<..... make of this what you will and have a great time in game ^^

Well, I can say this, prices have dropped like crazy, EXCEPT on rare items. Granted, Blau Dolch has come down to about 8 million on Remora last I checked (it gets as low as 7 mil sometimes). Still, you can't make any money in this economy unless you go after big money drops like these rare items. When Blau was 10 million and prices were a bit higher, I could see it being obtainable because I could still make a decent amount of gil farming. Now I would have to farm a considerably longer to obtain the same item. So OK, you say, "Well just get an LS and go get the Blau Dolch yourself like you're supposed to." Except no, I don't really feel like joining an HNMLS to be exploited and just hope that some day they throw me a bone and give me my dagger. I'd prefer to work with my small group of friends in the game to accomplish things, and I honestly think I could save gil faster than I could get an LS to get me the equivalent drops.

And I guess you could commend SE on getting all that gil out of circulation, but they didn't really fix anything, its actually worse than it was. Now gilsellers are EVERYWHERE, its insane, I never had to interact with them as much as I do now. They are all over the place. They hog up zones like Qufim and Kuftal. You can't XP on Robber Crabs in Kuftal cause theres like a huge alliance of gilsellers in the main room (5 tarus of the exact same model and same gear with nonsense names... come on). I went behind the Mythril Door in SSG and saw a huge alliance of them just standing there, not fighting anything. Its like they were gathering for something. And just try to get one of the NMs that drops Siren's Hair in SSG, its a pain. The same RMT trio is always on Novv the Whitehearted (Minstrel's Coat NM). I even had a RMT party camp right on top of mine in Cape Terrigan yesterday and steal all our crabs. And they are terrible players too, they wiped fully twice, and still kept fighting slowly but surely leveling up, being ready to replace those at 75 when their accounts get suspended.

SE can talk all they want about checking account information looking for gil transfers, but anyone who just walked around Vanadiel could pick out 50 RMT in about 30 minutes, and thats no exaggeration. They all work in parties of 2x NIN (Elvaan), THF (Mithra), 2x BLM (Taru) and a WHM or RDM (Taru as well). I was shocked the other day to see a BRD in their alliance. It doesn't take fancy detective work to spot the obvious. Any moron could pick these guys out. So far I give the task force a solid D+. Its made it worse for regular players, and gilsellers are swarming. You need to remember that there is more to the game than gil, they honestly ruin things like XP in a lot of zones.

I, for one, will accept a certain level of "gimpness" directly related to a person's game experience. One certainly wouldn't expect a recent college-grad to be driving a brand new Lexus, nor would we expect a retired businessman to be cruising around in his Ford Pinto. Nothing upsets me more than seeing somebody who is leveling their character past their capacity to afford decent gear, but cut some of the newbs some slack. We've all put in our time in the trenches. Sure, I can afford an Okote now, but believe me when I say that I got alot of exp wearing a pair of Battle Gloves. The game has never been about the end result. It has been specifically created to be endless. The pleasure should be obtained from the ride, not the destination.