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What SOE products are currently overseen by this Tibia Gold task force and how many accounts have you banned so far?
Brad Wilcox: The NUGIT team oversees all our products. We really started tracking what the team was doing in January 2008. From Jan 2008 to present, we're up to 239,000 accounts that have been banned. This is a very organized operation.
As the NUGIT team investigates individuals, they will find a whole tree of individuals. Money and items will pass from person to person or character to character or account to account.
We have even discovered entire guilds dedicated to farming and bottling. It is their business to make a profit from our games, so we've had to make it our business to stop them.
"We'll get calls from a grandmother from Wisconsin asking what the heck EQ2 is and why do I have $15,000 charged to my credit card?" This sounds a lot like organized crime.
Brad Wilcox: It's exactly like organized crime. It's a matter of following the money and seeing where it goes. That's why it can take so much time. They will try to move the money and items around so that you can't find them. This is also the team that investigates and responds to in-game petitions in regards to botters, farmers, and spammers.