LFG

How many times do I have to ban you assholes? How many IP numbers must I ban?

laineter Other: mekatokka laineter is trying to register a new account. His/her other logins are: mekatokka .

Hint dumbasses: reformat your comp between registration attempts, and then it'll be harder for me to recognize you.

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Just ban their whole subnet.

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Itcheee

freal, just ban the entire asia/pacific shelf

LFG

I do, every time.

And I have banned several hundred anon web proxy/socks servers. Bastards keep finding new ones. It's an unwinnable situation, kind of like the drug war lol. I think I have slowed them down tho!

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Kiara

Tell us how you really feel about it all...

Orodina

This highlights the problems that SOE has with them in game. Teach players that buying plat is like feeding cockroaches. Stop doing it and they go away.

Itcheee

you've obviously never interacted with a real human before.

when presented with doing something the hard way, or spending a little money for instant gratification, they'll choose the latter unless they're bums then they'll piss and moan about how much better their ethics are

Orodina

Okay, then throw up your hands, declare there is nothing that can be done, and get in bed with them.

SOE could call it something like... I dunno... Server Exchange.

Kurp

I had an argument with a guildie who bought plat once just to see how he could justify doing so (I'm sure those in my previous guild knows who I'm talking about); And what it came down to was this: "I can spend 1h farming and get the plat, or i can spend 1h working and get money to buy a lot more plat" I never really got the equation, specially when he complained about farmers the very next day, but it gave me some insight to why people buy plat.

If thats the case, if people see them as a service rather then an annoyance and a way to cheat honest people out of their money, I'm not sure theres much to do about the plat buying side of the discussion. Information can only reach so far and i doubt it would go as far as to the people who buy plat.

What i think really needs to be done is to ban it on a government level (like Korea i think it was) so that they can take action and sue them. They would most likely switch countries but all the benefits they gain from staying "at home" would be gone, such as getting a dozen new credit cards to subscribe to games, as well as the fact that they would lose so much money in the process due to lawsuits that it might not even be worth doing.

Orodina

To give some perspective, in terms of the money that can be made, there was a story recently of a Chinese student studying in Japan. He was short on funds, so decided to get into the 'sell items for cash' business, thinking it would provide enough funds to support him over whatever he was getting from other sources.

Did it ever. He made the equivalent of around $1 million in one year. The authorities found out about it because someone at the bank notified them about a student sending large sums of money back home. As he was there on a student visa, he couldn't be working for money, and they deported him.