
“Furthermore, as RMT vendors disregard normal gameplay and are only concerned with RMT activity, many of their fraudulent recruitment listings were created in the ‘Duty Roulette’ category of the Party Finder. This meant these fraudulent listings were routinely visible on a daily basis, a situation which has persisted until now.”

“However, many of these listings directed users to external websites, meaning an extensive process was required to substantiate allegations of RMT activity.

“Until now, when we discovered fraudulent recruitment listings by vendors in the Party Finder, we first investigated for RMT activity before issuing penalties,” said the dev team in the Lodestone article detailing the changes.

Some players offered clears of certain content in FFXIV for in-game gil or real-world cash, and Square Enix doesn’t like it.Īccording to the publisher, the practice was essentially cluttering up Party Finder. In the Prohibited Activities section, there’s been a crackdown on using the Party Finder to facilitate transactions using real money. Tataru is the only one making real money here. Earlier this morning, Square Enix updated both documents on the Support site with the aim of correcting some issues within the community. Today’s big change isn’t to the game itself, but instead to the Prohibited Activities and Account Penalty Policy. That means, in addition to finishing up development on the expansion, the team at Square Enix is doing some other housekeeping as well.
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We’re less than a month away from the launch of Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker. FFXIV RMT (or real-money trading) should get a bit harder soon - along with more serious issues like stalking.
