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Final Fantasy XI Special Task Force Crack Down On Illegal Activities Once More
| By Blitzballer 70 days ago Category: Square Enix News Tagged with : banning : FFXI : illegal : Special : Task Linked games : Final Fantasy 11 |
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Youve got to give Square Enix credit. Their Special Task Force, created specifically to weed out illegal activities in the online game Final Fantasy X, have been pretty busy over the past few months. Its even got to the point where they do monthly reports on what the Task Force has clamped down on and the figures have just been released for the period between March 26 to April 23. Here are some extracts from the report, found on PlayOnline: Regarding online attacks against FFXI: Recently, we became aware of an individual who attempted to compromise the integrity of the FINAL FANTASY XI service. The individual's efforts exploited the low-security passwords chosen by a small percentage of our customers. We would like to assure our users that our PlayOnline team quickly responded with countermeasures against the attacks from this individual. Additionally, our legal team worked together with U.S. government authorities to identify and locate the individual. As a result of our investigation, we have now completed an out of court confidential civil settlement which has serious financial consequences for this person. Account banning and gil confiscation: A total of 10,400 accounts were banned in March, an increase of 3,500 over the previous month. Similarly, a total of 580,000,000 gil was frozen in March, a record increase of 370,000,000 gil over the previous month. As mentioned in last month's report, the Special Task Force has strengthened actions against players violating the user agreement in regards to gil buying and selling. The sudden increase in the amount of gil frozen is mainly due to our heightened activities. Illegal Fishing: Places where it was possible for even low-level characters to fish without being attacked by monsters such as Sea Serpent Grotto and Cape Terrigan can no longer be used to catch fish. As a result of the recent version update, the number of characters involved in illegal fishing at these two locations has drastically decreased.However, because characters can still be found fishing in locations that players cannot normally move, the Special Task Force has further shortened the intervals between bannings. Illegal Mining: We have witnessed definite results through the version update disabling characters under level 20 from obtaining items through mining in Newton Movalpolos, Mount Zhayolm, Halvung, Gusgen Mines, and Ifrit's Cauldron. There are still violators of the user agreement who are raising their characters up to level 20 and repeatedly engaging in illegal mining, but the number of violators has drastically decreased compared to the numbers before the version update. More at the source link: Source: PlayOnline Add to Digg |
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By: SpiKy On: 09:24 May 11th, 2008 Offline |
Wow so these days virtual in-game crimes are punished by actual courts?lol... | ||
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By: Michael On: 02:56 May 11th, 2008 Offline |
Indeed. When someone signs up or a game, they agree to the user-agreement the company provides. Breaking that agreement is a legal criminal offense - in this case using someone else's free assets to make money - and it's as punishable by law as any other standard crime. |
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