Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Wobble]

To much work to report so I stopped

[Solaria_Luna]

I think it is better than before.
Recently I have not recieved any Friends Invitation from RMTs, do you? ^^;

I haven't received any Friend reqs from RMTs.

[Niwashi]

Recently I have not recieved any Friends Invitation from RMTs, do you? ^^;

I haven't received any Friend reqs from RMTs.

When 3.0 released, SE made a change to Friend requests to block anyone on a Free Trial account from sending them. I haven't gotten any RMT ones since that change. The RMTs' Free Trial spam-bots now just stand around Aetherites spamming the /say channel while their paid account spam-bots spam /tell messages. But at least the Friend Request spam was addressed.

[niwaar]

Greetings,

We would like to share a comment we received from the Special Task Force (STF).

All of this is great. But we still have had zero movement in over a year about the RMT advertisement spam in /tell. While we are getting less since Heavensward's release they are slowly getting worse and worse. Can we get a chat filter setting or at least can YOU improve the current text filter to catch more of these.

[Nicobo]

I haven't received any Friend reqs from RMTs.

When 3.0 released, SE made a change to Friend requests to block anyone on a Free Trial account from sending them...

Thanks for the information!

[Leshpar]

I am a relatively new player with a history of playing MMOs for almost a decade. I am used to RMT tells, and can ignore them. That said this MMO has by far the WORST RMT tell problem of anything I've ever played. Something needs to be done. It won't make me quit as I can ignore them (and sometimes they are funny to read), but it would improve my game time significantly if they didn't exist.

My number one recommendation that I can think of: add a right click report spam button. Put in some code to prevent accounts from sending whispers to ANYONE or talking in /shout if they receive 10 or more report spam clicks within say 15 minutes. This would not only stop RMT rather quickly but it would also eliminate public channel trolling (which I haven't seen at all in this game).

[Lucke]

Anyone else notice the RMT bots in Coerthas spamming FATEs now? Must have gotten the idea from players botting FATEs in North Than.

-They use classes, not jobs.
-Their gear is 20-30 levels lower than them.
-They don't have a FC or GC.
-Their names aren't jibberish, but instead 2 word sentences.

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out they are not a legit player.

[EZ5902]

Greetings,

We would like to share a comment we received from the Special Task Force (STF).

What about the free companies named like "asdfds" with somewhere around 5 characters in them, are still rank one after months of been created, are all mostly summoners with ifrit-egi, are all wearing level 45+ bought gear to spirit bond and killing the same things over and over (which usually consist of ornery karakul's)... pretty sure they don't need investigating.

[EZ5902]

Anyone else notice the RMT bots in Coerthas spamming FATEs now? Must have gotten the idea from players botting FATEs in North Than.

-They use classes, not jobs.
-Their gear is 20-30 levels lower than them.
-They don't have a FC or GC.
-Their names aren't jibberish, but instead 2 word sentences.

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out they are not a legit player.

Yeah, ive seen them too, but they'll most likely "need investigating"

[Nalfein]

-They use classes, not jobs.
-Their gear is 20-30 levels lower than them.
-They don't have a FC or GC.
-Their names aren't jibberish, but instead 2 word sentences.

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out they are not a legit player.

About those Bots seeking non stop the duty finder, they are even easy to track if you do a "/sea all" they are all side by side. I was wondering if maybe Square-Enix could employ someone in game to check and take countermeasures against them or maybe the Special Task Force staff are not enough for the huge amount of works that requires to hunt them I don't know, anyway I do think that a right click report would makes thing faster as well.