Recent RMT/Leveling Bans/suspensions

[magnetaress]

Yup

[drackgon]

I played a lot of Diablo 3 when it first came out. I was watching people buy items for 200-800$ left and right. So clearly tons and tons of doing it. Btw Galach TY for catching and hitting them with ban stick.

I heard its only a 7 day suspension sad only 7 days. I am curious how its not a perma ban just like being caught doing duel boxing. It seems to fall in same category to me.

[galach]

RMT seller = perma ban all accounts

RMT buyer = perma ban

Boxing on green = perma ban


Don't break the rules.

[drackgon]

oh I am sorry, was talking about the Leveling exploit. <3 galach, you and menden have helped me and this server countless times[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] My dumbself loves to let mage bags rot^-^

[Mblake81]

And I just got the credit card reader for my Duke controller.. damnit. One press without the mess. I had the buy now function mapped to the awesome button.

[Sethius Marlowe]

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

I only wish we could do the same to the people that I catch selling goods on Project 1999. It is truly mind blowing that some people would pay $700+ for a single item. If you are going to purchase something for money, remember that I will catch you eventually and you will only regret it down the line. People purchasing stuff in early December only to level, get to 50 and their account gets banned. Don't sell, don't buy, don't RMT. Simple.

Here's my take on that. It's really just a matter of relativity, it's not all that crazy.

Money means different things to different people. I could be wrong but it's probably not a 34 year old that works for minimum wage at mcdonalds dropping 700 bones on a cloak of flames. I could see someone who maybe lives on the dole dropping that for an item for a game that they play 10 hours a day that makes them happy. That's honestly just kind of like buying a decent mattress. Pretty similar concept.

Then also you need to consider that the game we play is made up of mostly people who grew up and were 14-40 the first go around. Now they're 34-60. They don't have the time or energy that they used to, but they do have money. And money buys "time" in that sense. Because you don't need to farm for like two weeks full days to make enough money to buy a CoF if you've got kids and a job and a partner and stuff. You just can't do it. But you're still fiending for that nostalgia.

And also also, like, the game is made up of nerdy people. Nerdy people skew towards some pretty high end salary tech jobs. If I'm making 200k a year but want an EQ fix, my paychecks are 12k take home a month. 700 bucks for an item that will make me happier when I play for a few hours for a few months even though I'll MAYBE get banned down the road, and if that happens I'll just pivot to something else to get my joy from. (Speaking metaphorically, I sold money when I was a kid in original EQ but haven't done RMT since, cept maybe a few blizz tokens for convenient gold for tradeskill shit.)

I mean. Everything is just what you value it as.

$700 to one person is a life changer. $700 to another person is spare change. You could pay to house someone in a 1bedroom for a month in like Pittsburgh, or have once nice evening at a pricey restaurant.

Relativity, folks. It drives everrrrrything. That einstein guy knew what was up

[aspomwell]

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

If anyone needs an elf lawyer I'm right there for you.

PM me.

I'll have that little bitch on your porch all trussed up with an apple in it's mouth next morning.

Make sure you get paid in plat in game, don't want to get banned for accepting RMT elf lawyer fees!

[magnetaress]

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

Here's my take on that. It's really just a matter of relativity, it's not all that crazy.

Money means different things to different people. I could be wrong but it's probably not a 34 year old that works for minimum wage at mcdonalds dropping 700 bones on a cloak of flames. I could see someone who maybe lives on the dole dropping that for an item for a game that they play 10 hours a day that makes them happy. That's honestly just kind of like buying a decent mattress. Pretty similar concept.

Then also you need to consider that the game we play is made up of mostly people who grew up and were 14-40 the first go around. Now they're 34-60. They don't have the time or energy that they used to, but they do have money. And money buys "time" in that sense. Because you don't need to farm for like two weeks full days to make enough money to buy a CoF if you've got kids and a job and a partner and stuff. You just can't do it. But you're still fiending for that nostalgia.

And also also, like, the game is made up of nerdy people. Nerdy people skew towards some pretty high end salary tech jobs. If I'm making 200k a year but want an EQ fix, my paychecks are 12k take home a month. 700 bucks for an item that will make me happier when I play for a few hours for a few months even though I'll MAYBE get banned down the road, and if that happens I'll just pivot to something else to get my joy from. (Speaking metaphorically, I sold money when I was a kid in original EQ but haven't done RMT since, cept maybe a few blizz tokens for convenient gold for tradeskill shit.)

I mean. Everything is just what you value it as.

$700 to one person is a life changer. $700 to another person is spare change. You could pay to house someone in a 1bedroom for a month in like Pittsburgh, or have once nice evening at a pricey restaurant.

Relativity, folks. It drives everrrrrything. That einstein guy knew what was up

The problem is this does occasionally catch people who are addicts and gamblers, and definitely violates the TOS of the site and impinges on the rights of Darkpaw, Daybreak.

Allowing this opens up potential avenues of harm that I can totally respect the p99 operators do not want to enable, encourage, or condone in any way.

Smart people like me have 16 cores on their CPUs to do some hard dirty work. Or we get a pension. Because we were dumb frakkin cylons in our youths. Thats all I got to say, not everyone is lucky or has the experience to be safe online.

And I appreciate that the 99 devs care.

[Doujou]

Wouldn't it be worse to log on the character you bought something on for $700, realize it's been removed, and have to go about your day like normal?

[magnetaress]

I think Reogean, and the staff do care about this as a hobby and it is not some kind of scheme. I think they are emotionally connected to the nostalgia and past and they never wanted to see that vision corrupted by convenience.

I implore anyone who feels the need to RMT here to go play wow, or live TLP server EQ and invest your money into a legitimate game studio, or find an indy game to subsidize for a month. Try a few different ones out and don't put all your eggs in one bascit.

Or take that 700 and invest it in a licence of the unity engine, or a class on level design with Blender.