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With all these restrictions, one would think gold sellers are having a really hard time, right? (Proof inside)

Let’s use Klaipeda server as example:

Roughly 9.2m silver was sold in the last 5 hours.


Here’s a list of open orders:


This is how RMT actually worked in this game:

First of all, there are three different groups of people.

Group A: Gold farmers (Or often called as workstation)
They create tons of botting account with stolen credit cards. Their sole purpose is to milk as much silver as they could before getting flagged or banned, and then proceed to create more accounts with more stolen credit cards, rinse and repeat.

Group B: Middleman (Or often called as the Spammer)
They spam gold selling messages in the game. Most of them have their own website but I can guarantee you none of them actually farmed a single silver themselves. They often act as a 3rd party middleman to hook up potential silver buyers and the gold farmers while doubling the silver price in process.

For example, if they receive an order of 100k silver for $3, they would then ask the player to list some random 100k item on the marketplace, and then message the gold farmers to buy off that random item from the marketplace for a price of $1.50, by doing so, $1.50 goes into the pocket of the middleman.

Group C: Buyer (Actual Tos Players)


Now let’s take a look at the restrictions: Token 1:1 trading, marketplace 48 hours delay, how are they affecting the whole RMT situation?

Botter still bots, spammer still spams, buyer still buys silver. Not a single bit has changed. Billions (not exaggerating, literally billions) of silver has been sold since the beginning of early access, both gold farmers and spammers have their pockets full of cash, meanwhile honest players are being punished for no reason.

Gold sellers are having a really hard time eh?


Edit: Replies to a few arguments

(Someone said: They would have sold 100m instead of 9m?)

This argument is completely false, reason? Let me ask you a simple question, if you were a gold farmer, and you have 100m sitting spread out in your armies of “soon to be banned” botting accounts, what would you do?

Answer: Lower the supply price of silver and make sure you sell every single last silver, some do it daily, some hourly, it really depends on the policy of the workstations.

So how does this affect the rest of the players?

Every game that has a tradable subscription membership will always have a tied economy with RMT, people will buy silver as long as it cost them less to buy a token.

Bottom line, silver price falls, token price and price of everything in game rises.

(Someone said: They are making less, pennies)

There are many others none recorded trades.

Data that was shown in the first post is from a single website, that was used to hook up gold farmers and spammers, they charge a flat 5% fee. Most spammers have their own contact and will try to skip through this website as much as possible, but when the silver demand is too high that their own contacts are not able to fill up the orders, they will look to buy from that website.

You need a bank account from China to use that website.

Most gold farmers are chinese.

Rate of USD:RMB 1:6.4

$30 usd is about $200 in China. Man power and electricity is extremely low. Some workstations even have branches in third world country such as Indonesia, Malaysia etc where labour and electricity is even cheaper.

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IMC is going with the blind ignorance tactic and will defend their stand point till the end it seems (based on their last post).

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White Knights, I summon Thee!

Lol

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Instead of letting them find a solution for this, lets just allow all the trading restrictions. That way the number of silver bought can be increased from 9m to 100m. I like your thinking.

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Hahaha, I just knew that this would be the argument of the holy white knights.

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you mean the “i have no argument argument.”

you guys fall for IMC again , they knew trade restriction won’t stop RMT

tokens man, all they care is how many token sold

they expect player to buy a token every month “if you want to trade”

“B…BUT !! YOU CAN BUY TOKEN WITH SILVER !!”

well, before that happen…someone must have brought it with TP first

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Lets allow all trade/market restrictions, and make it easier for RMTs to sell silver. That way, more RMT companies will come and ‘invest’ in this game. Best argument.
Kappa

This is really good, thanks for this.

Basically IMC has to deal with:

  1. Botters, or general silver farmers, who offload all their earnings to other accounts
  2. Spammers, even if no trades happen through these accounts, they still disrupt the game
  3. Some way to discern between legitimate actions and fraudulent ones

So far nothing we’ve seen has actually dealt with the problem, as there are still bots and spam clearly visible in the game. Is this better or worse thanks to the measures they’ve taken? Or no change at all? It’s hard to say.

But what it seems like to me is that all they’ve done is give themselves a buffer at a great expense to regular players.

Listed items don’t appear on the market for 30-120min, supposedly so that gold sellers can’t react immediately. But what does that actually help? So what if it’s an hour late if nothing happens in that time frame? Now there’s a lag time between when the player spends their money and when they receive their silver. It still happens, just up to 50 hours late, and with a 30% markup.

Oh well, it’s slightly more expensive and mildly inconvenient, I guess I won’t spend $20 on however much silver that would get me after all. Thanks IMC!

25k playing
34k Total population created

Lol do you think IMC really care about the casual and players, as I early mention in other thread, they are defending and cover up all about token…
RMT or Whatever gold-seller is just another excuse for IMC to plot into the story of “token life”…

In future, there will more restrictions added into the game, now still in the period of early access and when its come to F2P <---- Solution u can guess what
If token is to sold for $15-30 buck a month, mean IMC is prove that its not F2P which convert into B2P…

IMC always mention RMT is ruining the game economy, but they still can trade using token and what make them think that the issue can solve?
B2P is the solution! Unless they can make those gold-seller web shut-down and complain about the policy and this way its will killed every each seller core…

The argument 9m is better than 100m is not a real argument when you desire this value to go 0.

Still there is only 1 way to stop gold-seller for sure, and the way is to stop all kind of trade in game, a thing that would never happen

IMC announced that FOR NOW they won’t change this while trying to reach gold-sellers by uncommon prices in newbie itens

This system haven’t even been implanted yet and already have a lot of cry

Also even if IMC continue this when F2P comes the lose will be theirs, cause lots of people will stop, the community will make this game fall apart, but this is only the second week of 4 and that’s not the only issue they have to solve…

Have you ever programmed something? Change everything out of the blue is not easy as you think

I’m not defending IMC i don’t think this system will go well, but still too early to condemn IMC saying that they only desire for money, and you know what? Everyone wants money, even if its only to feed yourself

Edit: The project started years ago, a monnth of tokens wont save them ffrom the money loss

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白馬の騎士 !
(I actually know only two of theses kanjis but let’s just pretend)

Well now they have to, since they need to farm at least until lvl 40 to start spaming.

I don’t see how this can be stopped, unless you know how to stop a criminal organization that steal credit cards, and even so, I don’t think it’s a job for a Publisher to do.

This guys have to wait 48 hours to receive their silver, this is making their life miserable and those are the ppl complain every single day that they want their silver now.

They are the source of the problem and the ones that IMC is trying to strangle, the problem is how do you know who is helping RMT and who is not. They are refining that, and the 48h delay is probable being use to develop some kind of tracking or strategy to cancel those trades before 48h, making the RMT buyer pay real money to gold sellers but doesn’t get the silver, making not worth for them.


TL;DR

OP IS HELPING RMT SELLERS WITH THIS KIND OF PROPAGANDA, IMC ARE PROBABLE USING THE 48H DELAY TO STUDY HOW RMT ARE ACTING AND WHO ARE HELPING THEM. WE ALL KNOW THAT STOPPING BOT FARMERS AND SPAMMERS ISN’T GOING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM, SO IMC IS ATTACKING THE ROOT OF THIS BS. YOU!! YOU WHO BUY FROM THEM, WHO WILLING DESTROY THE MMO THAT WE LOVE. YOU THINK IS HARD TO LOOK AT THE DATA AND SEE THAT YOU’RE BUYING A ROUND SHIELD FOR 900K? PROBABLE THEY ARE LOOKING AT A WAY TO MAKE YOUR SILVER NEVER REACH YOUR POCKET.

DON’T FOOL YOURSELF FOR THIS GARBAGE, SURE WE ARE STRUGGLING AND MAYBE IMC ISN’T THE MOST EFFICIENT RMT COMBATANT OUT THERE, BUT SITTING HERE AND COMPLANING, ASKING TO MAKE THE RMT SELLERS’ LIFE EASIER, ISN’T GOING TO SOLVE ANYTHING.

IF YOU CAN’T HELP, DON’T DISTURB IT!

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Finally, FINALLY someone said it.

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Keep telling yourself that. Meanwhile, botters keep botting, RMTers keep RMTing and forum staff snips my message because I was too rough. :disappointed_relieved:

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K, fix that. Don’t allow players to list random items for 100k. They are working on this currently, as mentioned in their RMT announcement.

Nip it in the bud.

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Better than you that want to spread even wider… unless you can tell me a way to stop RMT right now I don’t think you’re on a better position than me or anyone else.

Keep spreading btch…

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Nice caps. It’s like you’re saying your opinion is more important than everyone else in the thread.

RMT is a lot less of an issue than many people around here is making it out to be. It’s not good, but it’s not bad enough that it will ruin a game like TOS. It’s unfortunate that IMC has to deal with people making money off their game, but RMT barely affects the rest of the player population. There’s no reason that the players have to suffer for it.

Anyone can go buy a hundred tokens with cash, liquidate them for Silver on the market and buy everything he wants anyways. It doesn’t matter if they bought the Silver from a gold farmer or if they acquired it selling tokens on the market. Whales exist both legitimately and illegitimately here.

Suck it up IMC.

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Well kid you can say that to anything good about life, Police shouldn’t be arresting criminals because they can’t get crime to 0, Fireman shouldn’t be working because there will always be fire, Medic shouldn’t even be trying because everyone still dies anyway.

They are doing something, if isn’t enough for you why the hell you don’t just leave? I mean seriously… why even bother to come here bitching about this, if nothing but 0 problems isn’t enough, go home. There will always be problems, aways bugs, aways RMT in MMO… the best they can do is making stay in a aceptable rate.

The game still young, and I’m sure they are gathering data as we speak to stop the silver that ppl buy from RMT seller to get to them. If ppl start paying but the silver isn’t coming, I bet they will stop buying.

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O_O

I don’t see what you’re saying apply to me… if you can’t even read a whole caps TLDR section, I feel sorry for you.