FFXI: EULA Enforcement & You

The Final Fantasy XI official site at PlayOnline.com has a new article focusing on the developers' enforcement of the EULA, particularly with regard to Real Money Transactions (RMT). The piece outlines the past year's work by the Special Task Force. Check it out below.

Today's report will outline our actions over the past year in dealing with players violating the user agreement, as well as the Special Task Force's plans for the future.

See below for details on the Special Task Force's activities in dealing with players violating the FINAL FANTASY XI user agreement.

The Future of the Special Task Force

The Special Task Force was established in October 2006 as a team specializing in dealing with RMT activities with the ultimate goal of keeping Vana'diel safe.

At the very beginning, much of the STF's activities were akin to stumbling in the dark, and finding violators was somewhat difficult. Over time, we received quite a few e-mails with opinions, requests, and questions about the Special Task Force, many of them wanting to know specifically what we were doing. We wanted to share the results of our work with those interested as well, so in June 2007, we started publishing the monthly Special Task Force Report.

From that point up until the present, we have been announcing our future plans and the results of our activities every month. Because of our hard work, we believe that the Special Task Force and its activities have become quite well known to FINAL FANTASY XI's players. For these reasons, this report will be the last Special Task Force Report under the current format. Starting next month, we will be using a simpler format to report the results of our activities.

However, there will be no changes in the scale or content of the Special Task Force's activities. We will continue to work on the elimination of those involved in RMT in order to keep Vana'diel safe.

We will also continue to accept reports from FINAL FANTASY XI's players regarding violators of the user agreement and other such matters. We would like to thank everyone for their help and cooperation.

Summary of 2008 STF Activities

- Accounts and Gil

From December 14, 2007 to December 24, 2008, a total of 30.8billion gil was frozen and a total of 88870 accounts were banned.

There's lots more to see including several nifty graphs, so take the link above to see the rest.

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