Blizzard got rid of this issue in diablo3.
By making EVERYTHING account bound, and trade allowed only for items that dropped while in a party and only with people in that party.
Even gold was account bound.
But that totally kills the market. I mean, they DID shut the AH and RMAH when they implemented it.
They basically killed the gameā¦ Diablo multiplayer is designed around random drops and stat rolls. Trading is so much vital for diablo than it is to an avarage mmo. Sad to know that.
no diablo is old no one plays it thats whyā¦
That is something that IMC has to decide for itself.
I would never penalize the buyers, because I have spoken to too many of them. This method is in play for some games. I know it has an impact on the sales, but even there it still happens. I know too little about EVE, although I enjoyed to play it back in the day.
However I am not the guy that has to dedicate work-force to combat them either. Being in their shoes my opinion might differ.
Stop the BOTs and 90% of RMT falls apart, end of story.
X-TRAP, VAC ā¦
Funny you mention VAC, since hereās the really weird thingā¦ according to the staff:
Yeah, nobody plays it.
The point is, they solved the RMT. BUT botters are still rampant for leveling/farming paragon levels.
I actually found a gold selling website while searching for an item on the internet, and it actually told the customers what to do to be able to get their money :
Put up 10 of an useless material for 10k each in the AH (for 100k) for example. This kind of trick, IMC will never be able to block.
Yeah, and wait like 20 days and 5 hours minimum. Itās not like you could easily grind that 70 or 90k after 20 days of playing. And if you sell them all in a string, I bet it would look suspicious to GMs that you have that 70 or 90k waiting for the retrieve timer and they are all useless items that you somehow managed to sell for 10k each.
And what IMC could be doing is to flag the gold sellerās accounts that buy from the AH. And if they managed to do that, all they had to do is to cancel any suspicious, or just simply all, purchases from them within that 48 hours.
If you save all the purchase data (for some longer time period) from AH in something similar to excel form, it wouldnāt be that hard to automatically detect and flag any activity that exceeds ātoo suspiciousā threshold. Something like gold sellerās account constantly managing to sell his stuff faster and for higher value than on average, or him selling rare stuff more often than average. And after that, buying useless stuff for higher than on average even if there were cheaper ones on sale too. And once you flag the gold seller accounts, it wouldnāt be that hard to just make the system automatically flag all his purchases after that.
This is just my speculation then, I have no idea how IMC actually handles these things.
Thing is, with the restriction on the number of things you can sell on the AH, the prices from some materials are just crazy high. Iāve seen items that are pretty easy to farm at some level get sold at 10k apiece, and I donāt mean by one player.
Then there wouldnāt be any point to hire a gold seller to buy them from you, right?
True. Then again, I find the guys that buy from gold sellers dumbā¦ Itās hard to put myself in their place.
I have that exact same problem. I think people should be forbidden by international strictly enforced law stating that they are not allowed to be that stupid 