I love it whenever game companies go on the offensive against RMT. It really is quite laughable.

The reason people engage in RMT is because the game makes them do unfun stuff in order to get to fun stuff (i.e. grind). If people feel the need to RMT in your game, it means that at least a portion of it sucks, because it isn't fun enough to be played for it's own merits, and instead must be slogged through to get to the fun part.

No one really wants to spend extra money on top of a sub fee to play a game, but they do so because it removes barriers to fun erected by the dev team. These barriers are bad design.

Instead of designing a system to rid your game of illegal RMT, how's about designing a game that is fucking fun to play from start to finish, thereby doing away with the necessity of RMT. I know, what a concept!

But no, these guys (not just CCP but mmo devs across the board) will continue churning out boring as level-treadmills, gear grinds, and shitty time-sinks designed to keep people subscribing and chasing the carrot. And as long as they do, people will continue to use any means to bypass it.

The fact that they've put their own RMT into the game is pure greed. It's ok to bypass boring-ass mechanics as long as you pay us, but not anyone else. Newsflash, if I like part of the game, but find other parts annoying enough to want to RMT around, I'd much rather pay a third party for the avoidance services, rather than the dumbass devs who designed the annoyance.