Stats on RMT Actions

GJ for Anet and TY to Gaile for info.

How does the removal of 190.2M gold from the game affect the economy? Will it make the cost of items cheaper? or 190.2M gold is insignificant compared to the total gold in circulation?

Is 771 players are the only buyers of gold or they are the only players who were caught having unexplained gold in their accounts? How about those who bought gold and expend it in game? Are they included in the list?

A reduced (more natural ) level of inflation

Less QQ on the forums about this subject

Less Bots over all,

Less bandwidth used by others

Well done, and thank you.

Only idiots jump to conclusions without looking at the whole picture.

scweeeeet...

yey numbers look cool.

we need something like this in guild wars 2 from day one...

Awesome job A-net!

Those numbers sound very good.

Anet should now consider doing something about this

Tisk Tisk Tisk. Perhaps you should open your eyes a little farther then. Maybe you will see the whole picture.

.... You is not thinking straight my friend.

Good job so far, but if it's a 'free stats day', then because I'm interested in the current state of the in-game economy two graphs that I'd love to see would be those that show the frequency of all player-to-player and player-to-NPC transactions involving gold, as functions of the total amount of gold transferred, for some representative period of time like a week. Log scales both ways, please

It's hard to discuss economy when you don't have any statistical indicators to rely on.

Absolutely. I can use 30p. No use in giving money to people that don´t play.

Halted online distribution of demo accounts to combat spamming
Noted a significant reduction in RMT spamming
Blocked 391 abused IP addresses
Terminated 4,876 accounts associated with RMT networks
Removed 190,200,000 purchased gold from 771 players
Witnessed a substantial reduction in botting activity in the game
Witnessed a substantial drop in RMT account creation and RMT transactions


A good start keep it up.

Now of only upi will do something about the people botting hff out of Lutgardis in Korea, Russian, Polish and other districts. I think with the number in specific guilds I saw and the amount of faction they were getting, that there was something over 1 Mil gold a day entering the system (and Im sure thats not the whole picture either)
Back on topic, good job on the RMT and stopping the spamming . Thanks for the update Gaile.

I can imagine the next general assembly of the UBotMyMMO RMT company:
Boss: Ok what's up with the business guys?
Chairman: They removed 90% of our botters in GW!
Technical boss: Yep, and they banned our IP addresses.
Chairman: And they're even bragging about their actions on fansites!
Boss: What? You mean we can't parasite their game anymore?
Technical boss: Oh, we'll find a way, we'll always be smarter (that's what fans say).
Finance boss: Yes but we need money, fast and it needs to flow guys.
Boss: We need to take action and take back the business that belongs to us! (violently hit the table and crunches the Gaile Gray doll)
Jeff Strain (flying through the window of the 27th floor office): Ah ah! We pwned you RMTers, you shall now know the power of the bot-killer, in the name of the customer protection!

Well, well, Gaile's a-- Stat Addict!

Great Job

Though it's a shame you guys have to remove demo distribution. Should maybe add a spam filter to the Demo Account chat, being that online is likely the best place to market a demo. . . Think that's how I found you guys, and how I usually sell friends who may be interested in GW.

Keep up the great work--on everything.

Nice, good to see some positive devellopments, but doesnt affect deleting 190 million gold the guildwars economy?

And people would try to tell us that RMT does not affect the economy...

Commissar Gaile, I fully support this five year plan. Long live our enlightened absolute ruler Anet

I need to play devil's advocate here (because that's what I do).

I really question why these stats have been released, and never any other stats in the history of Guild Wars to my knowledge (besides copies sold). To me, the releasing of these stats seems like some sort of scare tactic or a "hey what we do works!" type of release.

I don't see anything useful coming out of these stats, and if you are going to release game stats, there are a LOT better things I'd like to know about.

I've noticed this too. The international districts of Bergen Bot Springs, Zos Shivros Channel and Rihlon Refuge are now desolate since the chages made about two weeks ago. It's also really difficult to get hold of those 'WTS Unid. 7=5k ok' sellers.

In fact, there are virtually no bots at all nowadays.