tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post8810228245426474122..comments2023-10-25T07:19:08.019-05:00Comments on The Nosy Gamer: Global War On RMT: ISK Falls, Gil ClimbsNoizyGamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315716516032999133noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-4190199299887498702013-10-01T17:52:49.466-05:002013-10-01T17:52:49.466-05:00hacked accounts is my personal guess sense I can&#...hacked accounts is my personal guess sense I can't see them using normal names for accounts they know will get banned for spamming. SOE should do a better job advertising their security app for phones that generate one time passwords (authenticator) I have seen more info about the key fob version that you have to order than the free app version. One time password generators aren't perfect but they are better than just user generated passwords.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-46959647611284433142013-09-30T19:35:35.472-05:002013-09-30T19:35:35.472-05:00Hacked accounts? That would explain the availabil...Hacked accounts? That would explain the availability of so much gil after only a month.NoizyGamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315716516032999133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-34093257694301469972013-09-30T19:26:57.212-05:002013-09-30T19:26:57.212-05:00I'm not going to be able to do it. Just tryin...I'm not going to be able to do it. Just trying to wade through all the RMT sites trying to figure out if they really sell ISK is a major hurdle. Then add in the botting/RMT communities, player auction sites and the like and it's unmanageable. Add in trying to do it in multiple languages I don't speak and just that part is impossible.<br /><br />But that's just the ISK selling. Then there are the item sellers, power levelers (or faction grinders) and those who rent out null sec systems for real life cash. And on that last item, don't anyone try to tell me I'm falling for PL propaganda. That type of thing was brought up as a concern by UAxDEATH at one of the CSM 7 summit meetings.<br /><br />And I should add there are a lot more than 12 sites selling ISK. I just picked the 12 English-language sites that look the most active and are easiest for people to select when doing a Google search.<br /><br />But if you want some idea of scale of operations currently, remember where I estimated that CCP had seized $50-60,000 worth of ISK and assets from RMTers based on CCP Stillman's presentation this year? When Sreegs was relaunching the War of Bots after the 2011 layoffs, he said in a dev blog in April 2012 that he expected to seize the equivalent of $100,000 every month.<br /><br />http://nosygamer.blogspot.com/2012/04/ccps-war-on-bots-matter-of-scale.html<br /><br />That's part of the reason why I've been tracking the RMT sites. Is CCP getting worse at detection or is there just not as much RMT isk out there? Given the way the prices behaved on the sites on my watchlist, I'd have to say there just isn't as much ISK out there anymore. Of course, those are English language sites, so there could be a huge number of ISK sellers operating sites with absolutely no problems. NoizyGamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315716516032999133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-85879121731955646952013-09-30T18:58:29.698-05:002013-09-30T18:58:29.698-05:00Well now the FFXIV ban wave hasn't seemed to h...Well now the FFXIV ban wave hasn't seemed to have much effect on the gil spammers in city chat. Every time I go into a city I end up adding 2-3 names to my blacklist, just wish they had a right click name "report spammer&blacklist option. 30 people on my list in 3 days most are normal names not "dfghfg dfgsh" nonsense suggesting they are using hacked accounts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-11299121815991875842013-09-30T08:50:19.058-05:002013-09-30T08:50:19.058-05:00So if I understand your article properly, 2 sites ...So if I understand your article properly, 2 sites stopped selling ISK, but there are still 12 sellers through 14 sites? I know you were going to try to do some investigation, to get an idea of the actual volume of ISK being sold to these sites.<br /><br />Any luck on that front?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05509895151523038252noreply@blogger.com