11k Bit the bullet! (4/2/09)

[Aikar]

noones posted yet because noone noticed the update, but 11k accounts banned today. Looks like SE isnt posting STF reports anymore to news, and just updating STFU page.

FINAL FANTASY XI Official Web Site

Interesting note: 11k this month, 4k~ more than normal, yet less gil removed than last month?
hmm.... bans on NASA/Packet based bots per chance (I've got word of a few hnm ls members being banned) ? Anyone slapped with an LM17/11?

kudos to unctgtg @ VanaChat for notifying me of this.

[shaddix]

yay banhammer

[Izzy]

I really wish they did post some sort of notification to their news page to check the STF out. I'm never going to check that website ever lol.

[Mizango]

Sweet, I wonder who got hit.

[TT]

Number is most likely inflated due to those bots that send tells advertising gil selling sites.

[Mizango]

Number is most likely inflated due to those bots that send tells advertising gil selling sites.

God, we can only hope. That shit was annoying as all hell.

[Furoris]

might be related to http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/72586...t-gimmick.html
and probably includes all the /tell spam characters banned in total since the last time they listed banning.

[Mafai]

it has to be majority spam bots. look at the gil differences.

3/1/2009 - 3/31/2009 11,070 Approx. 1.5 billion - almost 5000 accounts more then Dec-Feb, but same amount of gil.
1/28/2009 - 2/28/2009 7,650 Approx. 2.1 billion - this must be inflated by the salvage bannings, since lots of end game rich people.
12/23/2008 - 1/27/2009 7,210 Approx. 1.5 billion

[Aikar]

Number is most likely inflated due to those bots that send tells advertising gil selling sites.

cant be, theres at MINIMUM 10 bans a day on those things.
over 30ish servers (whats the total count anyways im too lazy to count em) and 30-31 days, thats near 10k on those alone in a month.

[richardd]

i dont see people panicking yet, asking obvious questions like "does LM-17 mean perma or temp??" maybe it was those RMT bots using spam tells.

[Aikar]

i dont see people panicking yet, asking obvious questions like "does LM-17 mean perma or temp??" maybe it was those RMT bots using spam tells.

more like the people who paid 500-2k$ w/e the fucking price is for those retarded ass bots arnt dumb to need to ask that question, and knew what they did.

[Celebrindor]

ack! I got LM-16'ed!!!


owai......

[Destinye]

Yeah, no one threatening suicide yet, so..probably bots/gil sellers/gil buyers etc.

[Devolver]

Fucking....

Does them shutting down your account because of improper funds on your credit card count?

I know it doesn't but...damnit.

[richardd]

more like the people who paid 500-2k$ w/e the fucking price is for those retarded ass bots arnt dumb to need to ask that question, and knew what they did.

it would be pretty epic. I'd love to see it as much as anyone else, and than have a group of ppl trying to find out what my IP is because i started the whole thing about how to ban them, but somehow... i dont think itll be that <_>; my luck isnt that great. in fact, it suuuuuuuuucks

[Aikar]

lolz, keep funds in your account! (ok ok mine woulda been 35$ balance if i didnt get that deposit in yesterday too , but bill was only 25$ counting CP)

[zantes]

Fucking....

Does them shutting down your account because of improper funds on your credit card count?

I know it doesn't but...damnit.

improper funds? I didn't know you could have such a thing.

[Tricen]

LM16 always scares the shit out of me. Maybe a guilty conscience?

[Kipling]

LM16 always scares the shit out of me. Maybe a guilty conscience?

LM-18 is the billing isn't it?

[richardd]

LM16 always scares the shit out of me. Maybe a guilty conscience?

there was a guy back on hades who was like that a couple years ago. the ls leader gave him pos.exe and argus and thought it was part of the FFXI program (seriously) and used it a lot. I still dont understand why he would think it was legal, but the way he got caught was great. He called a GM and complained his pos.exe didnt work. he was actually just temp suspended, but everytime he had a balance that caused him to lm-16or 18, he always thinks he got banned.