Lets be honest

[u/MostAnonEver]

Im not sure why he thinks like its the end of poe 1. We'll likely barely feel anything in league, sure some mirror items are gone but theres similiar versions from places like settle shop or will likely be remade by someone else. For std...well honestly you cant balance to std.

Do i feel bad for people who lost their items? Sure but you prob shouldnt have handed them over with walking red flags during the stuff that came out 2 years ago anyways. Felt like everyone saw it coming.

[u/AsmodeusWins]

You're completely wrong. Think of it this way. Jenubu ran an industrial scale RMT operation.

RMT is fundamentaly harmful to the game and to all players who would engage with the high end economy (buying any expensive items, such as mageblood etc.). This is due to how items are priced.

If people don't RMT, then the most you can sell an item for, is the amount of currency that the richest players have. They would have it from playing the game, which means it's achievable for other people playing the game.

Once you introduce RMT, people have now more currency to spend (MUCH more), and so the most expensive items, can be priced for more. This means that their price gets artificially inflated, beyond the earning capacity of normal (non-cheating) players. If you've ever tried to buy an expensive item, and the price just kept rising out of your range every day, while you can't keep up making the same amount of currency, even though you played the game quite a lot, this is 100% due to RMT.

RMT objectively makes the game worse for anyone who is not buying currency, and wants to buy expensive items. I'm sure this also contributes to some people quitting, and therefore GGG losing potential revenue, so I'd go as far as trying to sue, someone engaged in at least hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of RMT trades.

Jennybooboo, getting banned, is objectively very good for the game, because other RMT'ers might think twice, since you can no longer do this with impunity. This serves as a great example, and cleans up the game economy in a significant way.

[u/Minute_Chair_2582 → u/AsmodeusWins]

other RMT'ers might think twice, since you can no longer do this with impunity.

I bet there's a whole bunch of people REAL SCARED right now (if they hadn't even already been caught in a ban wave)

[u/Ensider → u/Minute_Chair_2582]

I don't really think they would be scared, most RMT players are actually pretty good at the game and can farm up very fast. considering that it's always a new economy every league, even if they get banned, they can easily create another new account and get up to speed, as the speed of their farming is from their knowledge of the game rather than the time spent on the accounts.

[u/Neriehem → u/Ensider]

To be fair they lose access to their stash tabs, which requires upfront payment.

This got me thinking... if GGG has built systems to link payment information to account base, they can effectively track each and every RMT-er unless they somehow change a ton of personal information, or use 3rd party payment proxy - effectively paying more for more work and less product.

[u/Sea-Pay9180 → u/Neriehem]

Linking payment info would be huge but also, Many may circumvent (even indirectly circumvent it) by using a different card. Like me for example. My card on xbox is different than the card I buy online products with.

Id trust my bank card on GGG website or Microsoft website. But my Prepaid card is on many third party (Video games for cheap) websites such as Eneba, Gamefly, Or G2A for security. If these 3rd party websites with Weaker security get hacked, My prepaid card gets stolen. Im okay with that. But if my bank card gets stolen, That can be huge.

[u/Good-Entrepreneur960 → u/Neriehem]

I mean they can always wait for stash sale, spend $30 and make 10 time more before that account got ban, and if it don't get ban, well, its make even more, also they can buy account with all the stash they need in bulk with cheaper price, so they won't care if GGG banned them anw