Accounts banned July 24th

[Lordender]

We would like to report the termination today of multiple accounts held by players involved in the usage of third-party tools or cheats, or engaged in RMT (Real Money Trading) activities.

Based on the results of our investigation, around 4700 PlayOnline accounts were terminated while around 750 accounts were temporarily suspended.
Additionally, we have increased the number of mass bannings against certain PlayOnline violations in order to prevent illegal acts.

Details of the violations are as follows:

- Usage of tools that allow enhanced character movement.
June 28, Approx. 250 cases
July 5, Approx. 230 cases
July 12, Approx. 150 cases
July 19, Approx. 120 cases

- Usage of tools that circumvent game mechanics with respect to the timing of ability use, etc. in certain areas or at points where Notorious Monsters appear.
June 28, Approx. 10 cases
July 5, Approx. 5 cases
July 19, Approx. 30 cases
July 20, Approx. 5 case

- Using cheats to automatically repeat a particular action.
June 27, Approx. 300 cases
July 5, Approx. 360 cases
July 12, Approx. 550 cases
July 19, Approx. 240 cases

Gil and item exchange for real world money cases:
July 24, Approx. 350 cases

- Instances of areas or monster monopolization.
July 3, Approx. 450 cases
July 10, Approx. 1060 cases
July 12, Approx. 740 cases
July 19, Approx. 600 cases

The termination of these accounts has led to the removal of approximately 2.6 billion gil from circulation.

We would like to remind players that as well as adversely affecting game balance, the use of third-party tools or cheats can also have consequences that are not immediately obvious, such as introducing damaging viruses, and comprising the security of private account details. Usage of third-party tools will not be tolerated within FINAL FANTASY XI, and we will continue to severely penalize any players found to be in violation of the PlayOnline Member Agreement.

As we continue to ensure a fun and balanced environment for FINAL FANTASY XI, we hope that our players enjoy the game as it was intended and take care to avoid involvement in activities that violate the PlayOnline Member Agreement.

Thank you for your continued cooperation and understanding.

[Saga]

FIRST

do i win something?

[Minions]

FIRST

do i win something?

No.

[Ryko]

FIRST

do i win something?

A ban for usage of tools that circumvent board mechanics with respect to the timing of post use, etc. in certain areas or at points where Notorious Topics appear.

[Tiernin]

FIRST

do i win something?

A ban for usage of tools that circumvent board mechanics with respect to the timing of post use, etc. in certain areas or at points where Notorious Topics appear.

Now thats funny

[Ashky]

10k Scorpion Harness' anyone?


LOL, I am all for these bannings, but the deflation of gil is getting absurd...

[Venture]

Cue overuse of sarcastic repeating of "I only used Windower" for this month.

[Sidanoir]

ROFL rmt getting ass pwned...

From IGE:
Leviathan Server : FFXI Gil
Gil Items Accounts PowerLeveling
Gil 1,000K
$79.26

80 bucks for 1 million gil hahahahahahahhahahahahh thats grand...

Shit talk about the stock market....if you were smart and bought a bunch of gil during inflation at 5 bucks a "share" and sold now, you woulda made quite a profit...

RMT related cases? I guess they are finally banning gilbuyers too eh?

[Cephius]

Uh correct me if I'm wrong, but all they did today was ban 350 people for trading items for real money, the rest of those stats are all from previous bans?

Anyway yay and stuff

[Lyramion]

Uh correct me if I'm wrong, but all they did today was ban 350 people for trading items for real money, the rest of those stats are all from previous bans?

Anyway yay and stuff

Wash out the sand in your eyes and look closely. They are doing bannings almost weekly now! Thats RMT ownage right there. Just the reports seem monthly

[Kyreth]

RMT related cases? I guess they are finally banning gilbuyers too eh?

They've been doing in buyers too, since the last update.

And it's been a fairly stable amount of Gil being destroyed per update. I think we're talking RMT/exploited Gil being built up and burned out each month by the STFU banhammerings.

Now all we need are some nice ban lists by server, so we all know who the cheats are.

And they list all the bans for the month. The last announcement was for the month of June (specifically through the 26th).

[Dank]

What they do now is weekly bannings. Look at the dates. They ban weekly and report monthly.

EDIT: Damn beaten twice.

[SephYuyX]

I like how the guy whos claimed Fafnir 7 times in a row is still around.

[rithridan]

about 500k per account, that doesn't really sound like much. Maybe they killed of a lot of farming accounts this time or accounts of RMT leveling groups. Those accounts don't hold that much gil I guess.

[spooky]

If this keeps up do you think people like IGE will eventually stop all together (in FFXI at least)?

[Thistle]

If this keeps up do you think people like IGE will eventually stop all together (in FFXI at least)?

Yes. Last year I read a book called Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot, written by a RMT. (Mostly about non-FFXI games, though FFXI was mentioned a couple times.) He was friends with all the top RMTs, people who founded IGE and such. These bans really do hurt them, and when it costs enough, they'll stop.

[Kyreth]

about 500k per account, that doesn't really sound like much. Maybe they killed of a lot of farming accounts this time or accounts of RMT leveling groups. Those accounts don't hold that much gil I guess.

RMT farming accounts generally hold next to nothing, but have "banks" to use when doing transactions. Why keep money on the accounts (generally the ones doing the exploits/cheats) that are highest-risk of being banned?

2.6 billion divided between the various servers is a hefty chunk, though. And that doesn't include the price of gear or sellable items lost each time S-E wipes out their farmers, which is gil invested for nothing.

Hopefully some of those "repetitive action" bans were craftbots.

[Lyramion]

Withotu SE whiping our Gilsellers Scorpion Harness be 100k by now

[Octavious]

Cue overuse of sarcastic repeating of "I only used Windower" for this month.

Well, today the bannings on the 24th were for RMT, so who knows @.@

[Tajin]

Now all we need are some nice ban lists by server, so we all know who the cheats are.

Think if we suggest this to SE, they will release them?