SE Banned 31,630 accounts last monthFollow

The month before that was only 16,230, the number has almost doubled, so I'm willing to bet about 10-15k of those were legitimate figures.

This is just for those of you who want an idea of the scale of things because if my assumption is correct, that's way more then I thought...

Source: Special Task Force Report

just posted this in another thread 10 min ago http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=10&mid=1249558851196423836&page=1&howmany=50#m124955998450338124

I wonder just how many of those 31,000+ are actual RMT, and not wrongfully banned Legitimate players?

With all of the banning horror stories around, is it actually a good idea to advertise such a HUGE number of "RMT Accounts" banned?

It sounds like they are going on a witch hunt, complete with pitchforks and torches, to me. When I see that, I just shake my head, and wonder if I'm going to be part of that statistic next month, if I actually log into the game (I haven't touched the game since the week before the update).

Even if SE doesn't read the forums, surely their CSRs are complaining to their bosses about the increased bad moods players are in, and the frequent calls/petitions/etc players throw their way when they are wrongfully banned... I mean, it should go like this:

CSR: Um, sir, we are getting a lot more players than usual saying they are wrongfully banned, and some of them are in just bad moods!
Boss: Eh... okay, just do your normal thing, I'll report it..

Or something like that, who knows. Still though, they surely recognize it as a problem, and they should surely think that players are spreading the word... do they think it is a good idea to advertise the STF is mass-banning people, when they know that a lot of them (I've heard they re-instated some of them) were wrongfully banned?

Banned

Considering there are 500,000 accounts on FFXI *cough*, that makes around 1 in 20 of you players a RMT

Ni Hao!


Edited, Aug 6th 2009 9:25am by Abbottone

To be fair, that 10~15k are the same ones every month.

Hay, I did find a new way to say it.

still pretty sad that they banned 10% of the player base.

if you don't think that looks odd, then you really are naive.

You know, what, I'll bite and post something to this all.

1/7/2009 – 31/7/2009 31,630 Approx. 2.7 billion
1/6/2009 – 30/6/2009 16,230 Approx. 2.1 billion
1/5/2009 – 31/5/2009 12,170 Approx. 2.7 billion
1/4/2009 – 30/4/2009 9,500 Approx. 2.3 billion
1/3/2009 – 31/3/2009 11,070 Approx. 1.5 billion
28/1/2009 – 28/2/2009 7,650 Approx. 2.1 billion
23/12/2008 – 27/1/2009 7,210 Approx. 1.5 billion


That is square's record for the year thus far, something to note whenever a ban wave happens and there is a difference in number there is a 3-4k difference in bannings.

We'll take the figure from June into this EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS THE CC BAN INCIDENT (They did try to clear up that mess so I'll try to be hopeful that most of the number is legitimate when its far from).

We'll say, the actual numbers of people who deserved to be banned last month would be 20k (Mostly people banned from previous months remaking and getting rebant). That roughly means we got 10k more than the usual bans. 500k is an older however recent figure, and lots of the bans would be on new/trial accounts especially with Square recently announcing FFXIV- so for arguements sakes, we'll pretend the 20k banned out of normal process was RMT Trial accounts that do not count.

Leaves us with 10k 'more than normal' bans given track record, cut and split it anyway you like. For me, I believe a reasonable chunk of it is legitimate complaints, but for arguments sakes we'll say its all innocent rather than a shot in the dark (I vote ~5000 cause I'm a ******* that likes to pick the middle)... Eh, my math is flakey as hell, its early morning, and coffee hasn't kicked in so that is what, 2%? I mean 1% is 5000 right? So we'll go with 2% since that's what coffee fumes are telling me.

So we had 2% 'new and unusual' bannings compared to a 500,000 population assuming the 20k 'normal' bans are all trial/newer accounts made after the 500k confirmation a year or two back was it?

I am not trying to justify what was done mind you, but before people start spouting off "10-20% of the playerbase is gone!" that is just as old and annoying as "FFXI IZ DIENGZ!!!!!1111"

ftfy

Sure sounds good when you are not that innocent man. Please come back and tell us how you feel when you get wrongfully banned.

and you think you are better than him...

maybe I'm wrong and have bad memory (very likely) but weren't more people coming out saying they were banned during the salvage duping? were they more vocal?