Are many people really RMTing?

[Escape123]

Bots only supply if there is required demand? Logically speaking if no one is buying gold there would not be no point in making bots

[tankanidis]

Originally posted by Escape123:

Bots only supply if there is required demand? Logically speaking if no one is buying gold there would not be no point in making bots

NA West is flooded with bots and NA East is flooded with streamers

both suffer the same issues

[amathy]

People are always going to RMT if there's a way to trade

[Grimmz]

EU Central is fairly clean from bots. none of the servers have queues and got a ton of people.

[Jason Wang Dang ✅]

ya most people don't want to repeat doing the same crap dailies everyday on multiple alts so they just walk the datk path of using RMT.

You save so much time just straight up rmting. $1 = 1K gold. So if you work one full day and cash in on rmt, you going to get like 100k-200k gold.

[endve.agony]

Originally posted by Escape123:

Bots only supply if there is required demand? Logically speaking if no one is buying gold there would not be no point in making bots

sadly the whale is not poor people

[YMD]

Look how many hours i played, my profile.
And no, I never spent a cent.

[Grimmz]

Originally posted by Jason Wang Dang ✅:

ya most people don't want to repeat doing the same crap dailies everyday on multiple alts so they just walk the datk path of using RMT.

You save so much time just straight up rmting. $1 = 1K gold. So if you work one full day and cash in on rmt, you going to get like 100k-200k gold.

the worst part is you get just a slap on the wrist if you're caught.

i've heard some stories from reddit that people bought like 500k gold and only received 3 days ban... thats ridiculous. how the heck do they not punish the buyers..

[endve.agony]

Originally posted by Grimmz:

Originally posted by Jason Wang Dang ✅:

ya most people don't want to repeat doing the same crap dailies everyday on multiple alts so they just walk the datk path of using RMT.

You save so much time just straight up rmting. $1 = 1K gold. So if you work one full day and cash in on rmt, you going to get like 100k-200k gold.

the worst part is you get just a slap on the wrist if you're caught.

i've heard some stories from reddit that people bought like 500k gold and only received 3 days ban... thats ridiculous. how the heck do they not punish the buyers..

the buyers play the game and spent money

[Orion]

Originally posted by Grimmz:

EU Central is fairly clean from bots. none of the servers have queues and got a ton of people.

Clean? yea we have no Que, But Eu is FAR from clean

[endve.agony]

Originally posted by Daniel Drachenberg:

Originally posted by Orion:

Clean? yea we have no Que, But Eu is FAR from clean

Gold-Sellers can access NA better because it has lower ping to their homelands.

lower ping from seachingchung homeland

[tankanidis]

Originally posted by Grimmz:

Originally posted by Jason Wang Dang ✅:

ya most people don't want to repeat doing the same crap dailies everyday on multiple alts so they just walk the datk path of using RMT.

You save so much time just straight up rmting. $1 = 1K gold. So if you work one full day and cash in on rmt, you going to get like 100k-200k gold.

the worst part is you get just a slap on the wrist if you're caught.

i've heard some stories from reddit that people bought like 500k gold and only received 3 days ban... thats ridiculous. how the heck do they not punish the buyers..

Yes, that's a big part of why botting has gotten worse lately

The 'common' knowledge release that people who deliberately went out and spent 100k+ on 3rd party websites and only got a 3 day ban (with the items they spent the gold on kept on their accounts for them to keep using after their 3 day ban) led to a sharp increase in RMT usage as some players saw it moving from a black/white thing to a gray zone

Amazon CM saying they would not outright permanently ban players who RMT if its a 'first offense and not much currency was exchanged' just opened those floodgates really

They needed to go sorched earth on botting/hacking/exploits/RMT

Because once players lose faith in the integrity of the game its a snowball downhill of bad things happening and good players giving up the fight and moving to other games in time due to loss of that faith

Why spend 18 hours a day in-game farming and 1000 dollars of your own money in royal crystals if the next player can spend 100 dollars on RMT and exceed your growth in the game without real penalty for taking that shortcut?

It will get worse when more GvG happens and its not going to be good for the health of the game long term with such a hands off approach to the bot situation that is punishing real players and making people re-think on spending their real money in-game if its long term future is murky due to the above

[Three-Headed-Monkey]

its really no surprise that rmt is popular in a game that heavily encourages the player to spend money

[Zhaeph]

Originally posted by Grimmz:

EU Central is fairly clean from bots. none of the servers have queues and got a ton of people.

idk where is "fairly clean" because i see bots every day . . .

[Paolini]

EUW has tons of +1490ilvl players with 50-80 rosterlvl, lv <20 holds, many lv9 gems. Yes alot of people do RMT and even when get get caught it doesn't matter because they keep the gold and are only banned for 24-48hours.

[Mura]

Originally posted by Escape123:

Bots only supply if there is required demand? Logically speaking if no one is buying gold there would not be no point in making bots

Go to punika, look for someone with a +20 weapon, if he is over 1480 and u look at their gems and are all like +10 gems, thats a rmt and i always report them cuz its literally impossible to get there, unless he had bought way too much gold thru steam and is costly compared to rmt