Gmuk's RMT Investigations and NERDRAGE OPERATIONS

[Kassel]

Originally Posted by Bwils [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Amelinda said she banned 60-70 people in the last week to RMT. Also I know she is on top of banning people for boxing. Which is good and bad atm. There is no pp on the server. EC has crashed not many are buying items. With big numbers getting banned it makes the economy situation a lot worse because so much pp gets locked up. At the same time if the RMT and boxers are not banned it ruins the game....

EC situation has nothing to do with RMTers being banned. IN fact had they been banned early and it was made acutally hard to MRT EC would not be in the the dire state is its now. The issues in EC started well before the the recent banning of 25 accounts (then i heard 40, now its 70?? seems exaggerated)

What happened to EC is really simple. There was a negative shift in demand at the same time as supply skyrocketed and the natural result is prices plummeting. . The vast majority of powergamers (holders of most of the plat and high end items) changed their behaviors. Most buyers became sellers, and very few buyers stepped in to replace the exodus. The only that could have prevented this from happening would have been a more proactive attack on RMT buy server managment to reduce the influx of supply. I do not fault them for this as i appreciate all the hard work they do for us for free. I just want to say that i 100% reject your idea that banning RMTers in any way hurts the game economy.

In addition, the same phenomenon happened before kunark, EC was dead, prices dropped. I recall getting several tranix crowns for 5k and selling for 20k a few months later, similar deal with FBSS which was down 6k IIRC.