Final Fantasy XI implements the RMT PWNER version 1.337 to battle RMT

by Seraphina Brennan Jan 6th 2009 at 9:00AM

Filed under: Fantasy, Final Fantasy XI, Culture, Game mechanics, News items

The Final Fantasy XI anti-RMT task force has always been very aggressive in their pursuit of gil farmers and gil sellers in the world of Vana'diel, but the latest task force update shows that they're about to get even more technological in their investigations.

Enter the RMT PWNER program, version 1.337. (No, we totally did not make that up.) This program can parse the many servers of FFXI for information regarding the buying and selling transactions of a character under suspicion of the task force. The program will then list all characters who have associated with that character's associates, and so on and so on. This way, the task force will be able to easily track all members of a supposed RMT group without doing all of the human legwork of tracking through endless log files.

In addition, the team is implementing "The Guilded Tomb," a tool that performs quick lockdown of a character's account if the suspicious character carries too much gil at one time, and the magical "Auto-Jailer," a program that will run in the background of all servers and throw suspicious players into Vana'diel's jail once they have met a certain criteria.

While these tools need to be tested in the field to see exactly how well they will perform, it only speaks to how aggressively Square-Enix attempts to shut down the sale of currency for real money in their world -- especially when you have players that feel just as strongly about stopping RMT as the company itself.

Tags: anti-rmt, fairy, ffxi, final-fantasy-xi, rmt, rmt-task-force, square-enix, task-force

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Harmen said on 9:57AM 1-06-2009

Euh? They didn't have a tool like this yet?

Ernest said on 2:58AM 1-07-2009

When SE first announced this my first thoughts were similar to Harmen's. While the message seems to suggest otherwise, I imagine they have always had tools similar to the "PWNER" tool. IMO, the whole report reads like a deliberate admonition, a not-so-delicate nudge to the would-be wrongdoers.

I get the feeling SE is going to start going after the blatant gilbuyers in addition to sellers. Probably not bans, but definitely confiscation and a visit to Mordion Gaol. Perhaps one day we'll log in and find our Linkshell officers, static partners, friends, lovers, enemies, and server legends locked up in GM jail. A FFXI rapture. Chickens coming home to roost.

mars said on 8:29PM 2-23-2009

FYI...I was banned last week for being "associated" with another banned account. SE wont tell me who it was or what they did. They do admit I did nothing wrong, but I was banned because of association. I think this program needs some tweaking. Oh yeah, I got the Perma Ban with no Appeal.