Accounts Banned (09/25/2008)

[Not Kuno]

Good job banning people and all but...

http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics...705/3705_6.jpg

This looks like the devils threesome.

[Ophannus]

If FFXI was console only, 99% of RMT/hackers would be gone.

[Senoska]

If FFXI was console only, 99% of RMT/hackers would be gone.

Along with 70% of the population

[Hellfury]

If FFXI was console only, 99% of RMT/hackers would be gone.

Do you seriously, honestly believe that?

I mean, come on, sure, it might take more work for the RMT, but look at the stuff retards pay for? accounts go for thousands of dollars. If there was/is a market for RMT in console only MMORPGs, you can be pretty sure there will be RMTs there.

Look at the modifications that can be made to consoles, if there wasn't a PC version around, I would be very surprised if it was impossible, with the proper motivation, to figure out a way to apply the same tools to the console versions as are applied to the PC versions.

People were cheating their way through games through modifications since the very beginning of consoles, my memory of early console modifications don't extend much beyond the NES (I miss you honey...) without doing googling, but even there there were several "easy" solutions that you plugged the game cartridge into (I want to say Game Genie, but it's been way too long to remember, Game Shark maybe?), not to mention the large amounts of enthusiasts who made their own homemade solutions.
the first Xbox console probably owes a large part of it's popularity to the fact that it was ridicilously easy to modify, people would run everything from regular windows to Linux on them from what I understand, I don't know the technobabble too well on this field, mine runs executor 2.something and I <3 it.

People have done weird things with the PS2 and the Wii as well (not to mention xbox360 not being left alone too long either).

New consoles are for all intents and purposes just like regular computers, but the base software installed from the manufacturer is slightly limited.

The argument could be made that the consoles are too secure, but as has been demonstrated time and again on most consoles, that doesn't last. (Heck, DVDs were supposed to be safe too!)

To round it off, I will admit that to my knowledge, there hasn't been any significant PS3 modifications to date, but that's probably a matter of time.

Consoles =/= safe

(added: Note: I am not stating that people mod their consoles for the explicit purpose of cheating, most people I know who modded their consoles did it to get more out of it (and to play "Backups", granted...))

[The Blackrose]

If FFXI was console only, 99% of RMT/hackers would be gone.

If the general populace had a clue, they wouldn't make retarded statements such as these.

[Celebrindor]

Isn't 1.8 billion gils pretty low compared to before ?

Either less RMT left to ban than before, or the multiple rollback of hacked characters compensate the values of gils/items loss somehow.

have to compensate for deflation over the past 12 months or so.

Bannings in the past may have been 7-10 billion gil, but I'd wager most servers would testify that 1 million gil today goes about as far as 5-7 million gil did 12 months ago...maybe more. Making that 1.8 billion gil much closer to the value of previous bannings.

[Toksyuryel]

To round it off, I will admit that to my knowledge, there hasn't been any significant PS3 modifications to date, but that's probably a matter of time.

This is because it is largely unnecessary, as the base firmware provides the means to install a second OS on the console if you wish (and the base firmware isn't especially limited itself). There've already been several different linux distros already released for the PS3, though one of the things that could make mods necessary is disabling the lock on the RSX.

[Max™]

If FFXI was console only, 99% of RMT/hackers would be gone.

If FFXI was an offline IRL board game, 100% of RMT/Hackers would be gone.

[Meat]

If FFXI was an offline IRL board game, 100% of RMT/Hackers would be gone.

I cheat at monopoly

[Max™]

Who doesn't?

[phrost]

Ethnic Cleansing averted