BG Zulu Drama Part 2: So what's the penalty for monopolizing an entire server's endgame??

Case in point #4,682 that Square-Enix had better get a lot of banhammers out or just pull the plug on a sham game...

I referred earlier to the BluGartr thread about an apparent RMT-ring possibility + major 3rd-party software allegations against Fenrir's Zulu Linkshell (who apparently had several members present, if not participatory, in last night's absolute farce against Pandemonium Warden).

http://www.bluegartrls.com/forum/ffxi-advanced-player-discussion/70208-zulu-linkshell-fenrir.html

So, I decided to get an even closer look at the thread, and it sounds like the deal is the following:

This is straight from "Pinky and the Brain", crossed with a dose of "Survivor".  They want to take over Fenrir.  As in, you don't play FFXI at all on Fenrir unless you bend over, suck our dicks, kiss our asses, and play our way.  Anything else, and you're out of endgame, which means you're either off Fenrir or out of FFXI entirely beyond a certain point.

The set-up:  This linkshell has apparently gained exclusive rights (paying upwards of hundreds of dollars, perhaps even thousands of dollars) to a claim-bot apparently called "NASA".  This is basically supposed to be a bot for "claiming against competition" (usually from other claimbots -- App, another illegal 3rd-party claimbot, apparently has approximately 5,500 users using it right now, as one example...), and is being primed for use by end-game RMT.  And it also makes itself essentially untrace-able by Square-Enix, effectively cock-blocking all remaining legitimate play off the server, should the cheaters choose to do so.

In fact, it would probably be safe to say that the end goal of the creators of this is to turn all end-game into RMT, where they control who, basically, can and cannot play Final Fantasy XI, for all realistic intent and purpose.

Mytiwar says it for me:  "Botting is already bad but paying that much to do it is bringing it to a whole new dimension imo."

Basically, this shit succeeds, and you're paying real money to ever see another major NM drop or anything real again.  Why would someone pay $2,000 (a reported price for this garbage) if they didn't intend to make that investment back several-fold...

Which see some of the RMT ads which basically run all over the place on FFXI sites and some of the monies involved.  (Apparently, the guy who ran the stream last night, Mojo, has sold two different characters of his for over $8,000 each, if his sig-line from BG is to be believed!)

There's a rumor on the board that an LS named Censura on Garuda already has the NASA bot, and basically now controls up to 80% of the NM claims against other claim-bot LS's camping NMs.

The fun really starts with Reyuma's page 3 post:  Basically stating information that the LS leader is going to fuck everyone else up the ass.  Believe me, if end-game goes completely RMT, you can bet that the leaders of these linkshells will defraud any and all they can sucker into the process.  Apparently, it sounds as if a lot of the players in on this crap have already been similarly cock-blocked by another LS on another server, and emigrated en masse to Fenrir.

(BTW, Reyuma, I reported this thread the first time I talked about it, and it's not even on my server.)

This is what FFXI is going to turn into unless Square-Enix castrates end-game as it is currently constructed.

Castrates it.

This is exactly what I've been talking about for the last month, now.  It's going pretty much exactly as I feared it would.  Players openly sabotaging other players' runs, botting and RMT running hand-in-hand and absolutely amok...

How much more of this are we as players (not to say Square-Enix) going to have to accept?

Square-Enix, fix your fucking game, shut it down, or I may have to start looking into some other options.