seems to me you just hit people where it hurts, the pocketbook. if they cant make money off of the game they wont bother. these plat sellers have hundreds of thousands or millions of plat, it would take some time but i would think they would be able to flag all accounts with over a certain threshold and then everytime that account gives say 25k or more to another toon it flags it for investigation. after awhile when you see an account with 3 million plat and it consistently is giving plat to multiple different characters on a daily basis its not hard to see whats going on. talk to all parties involved and see what they have to say, seller will obviously deny, but im sure if the buyers get told that theres an investigation going on and if they come clean they wont get banned but just get a suspension they will flip on the seller, then just delete all the sellers plat.
Would this take time, yes
would it completely get rid of rmt, no
would it make a dent and make a lot of regular players happy, yes
Also this nocturne guy who admits to propositioning rmt and is in your face about it, if he wants to sink into the shadows and play and not cause ruffles he obviously can, but it is really a slap in the face when this guy comes right out admitting what he does and the devs dont do anything about it, it sets a real bad example when you tell everyone rmt isnt tolerated and is done in back alleys but then a guy flaunts it on the forums and you do nothing about it.
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