Suspended Users Over CraftingFollow

you're a sad, sad little guy. i feel bad for you.

because you don't even know why, that's why.

Interesting. It really does sound like there was some kind of flat out glitch or exploit that put a ton of gil into the game that could not possibly be gathered from regular means.

As has been noted before, the total amount of gil available is based on rewards from quests and items sold to NPCs only. There is no other way to get gil out of the game itself. SE clearly saw far more gil than was possible, and traced it down to everyone who had it, even if those players themselves obtained it legitimately.

Seems like the fix will at least it will help the economy in the long run avoid ridiculous inflation, at the cost of being unfair to many players.

It's sad that at least some players basically lost the items they sold and now have nothing to show for it. The theory that SE was paying employees to go through transactions one-by-one never sounded likely to me. It was more like, account had illicit gil = divide by 100. It's absolutely not a fair way to fix it, but I'll bet somewhere there is a cost-benefit analysis of the all options for the fixes proposed, and this one ended up on top.

Most importantly, I'm glad you got your account back.

Just this once I'm glad to be continually broke.


Edited, Oct 4th 2013 2:29pm by Gnu

I doubt the chargeback included exactly 99% of my gil. Like everyone else suspended, they just took my gil and /100. That is not the hallmark of a thorough investigation.

Nope. By the time his crafts were all maxed, his highest class was a mid 30's bard.

Further evidence in support of RMT.

I don't think it's a matter of you guys having acquired your gil through illicit means, but rather the people who you acquired the gil from received it via an exploit.

There was some kind of gil dupe bug or something in game, that flooded the game with insane amounts of gil. I think SE is removing gil as a hedge against economic inflation in a number of these reported cases.

what sucks is that we only used the marketboard, how were we supposed to guard ourselves towards RMTs when we used the marketboard as it was designed?. Also we have still to be compensated for that week SE took from us, our sub kept ticking while we were suspended. Did speak with SE support later today, but they replied with: I can't help you since you violated the terms of agreement. Had to attach my jaw again when I heard it. Asked if I could speak with his superior and what evidence they base it on, but then the connection died. SE did a real blunder here.

Crafters set their prices according to the demand. If prices are creeping up and demand is high, you price your item high. If demand is low, you may be forced to sell low in order to move your product. It's not the job of a crafter to screen the person buying their item to make sure that their currency is legitimate, and there is no system in place that would allow this anyway. The only thing that crafters are guilty of is placing items on the market, and without regulation this is a perfectly legitimate action no matter what they price it at.

Edited, Oct 5th 2013 9:03pm by Susanoh

At least businesses can have insurance against that if they pay for it.

I don't think it was everyone with large amounts of gil. I have a few million myself, and I wasn't touched. It seems like people who have a lot of RMT duped gil got hit.

There's one person on the official boards who actually claims that although he did lose > 25 million gil, he still kept ~10 million.

And ALL of the gil that was lost was on retainers.

If the claim is true, then the theory that it's just a flat 1/100 all round doesn't sound right.