Reporting people via the chatbox

[Duelle]

We're already seeing RMT spammers in general chat, and out of habit (from WoW) I right clicked on their name in the chatbox but found no option to report them for spamming.

To give you an idea of how this worked, gold sellers in WoW would spam general chat much like here. The devs implemented a function through the chatbox where if you right-click on a person's name you have the option to report them for spam and blacklist them. Reporting someone for spamming caused their text to no longer show up for you for a predetermined amount of time, and Blizzard tended to react to how many spam reports the person received, among other things.

This in effect killed two birds with one stone simply because you were no longer seeing the spammer's text while also notifying the proper people about the person spamming; the moment we would see a gold spammer pop up I'd right-click on their name, click on Report for Spamming and continue about my day. You guys might want to consider implementing something similar, if only to make general chat more bearable.

[Wolfhammer]

Yup I saw the gold-sellers spam in chat yesterday. I didn't see a simple way to report the idiots.

We need chat box reporting off a right click..

[TreyZerODM]

Bump.............

[10TailBeast]

Why SE didn't learn from other MMOs when it came to helpful stuff like this is beyond me. I've just started shutting off Shouts on the General chat in my options when it gets bad. As soon as I blacklist one, another damn bot message pops up. The bots have also begun using Tells. This needs to have something done about it. If I have to, I'll shut off everything except Party, FC, and LS posts.

[Duelle]

Why SE didn't learn from other MMOs when it came to helpful stuff like this is beyond me. I've just started shutting off Shouts on the General chat in my options when it gets bad. As soon as I blacklist one, another damn bot message pops up. The bots have also begun using Tells. This needs to have something done about it. If I have to, I'll shut off everything except Party, FC, and LS posts.

I definitely agree. It was a clever way of dealing with gold-seller spam while saving you space on your blacklist (not to mention it was quick and easy to do without digging through menus to find your blacklist and add them to it).

[Ormathon]

I am kinda amazed how long the spammers can survive without being punished. 1 guy has been posting his selling site(virus site) every 30 seconds for over 1½ hour now.

But yeah, this definitly needs to be added. And SE you need to actually do something about them. Not just ban their accounts. Be vigilant about it and you can weed out these gravel eating pigs.

Getting rid of them swiftly means less problems in the future with corrupt markets and people's accounts being hacked and ruined.

[Sivara]

This thread needs more support!

I received an RMT /tell while crafting the other day and it really irritated me that I couldn't easily right-click-report the scumbag. RMT ruined several aspects of FFXI and I do NOT want to see that happen in FFXIV. With the way things are set up in FFXIV, I think it will be difficult for them to wreck this game like they did with FFXI, but they are never short on ingenuity and persistence. They will find something to exploit and one way or another, and it can and will hurt the players -- either by wrecking the economy, making it difficult or impossible for us to participate in certain in-game activities, or some other means of interference with gameplay.

I sincerely hope that SE learned some crucial lessons from FFXI and that they will crack down on RMT in FFXIV.

ETA: I almost forgot about account hacking. If FFXIV continues to be very popular and SE makes it difficult for RMT to exploit gameplay features for gil, account hacking will be rampant. A hacker would not only have access to a player's items/gil; they would also have access to the Free Company's banked items. I have a security token from my 1.0 CE, and I hope more players can get these and that SE will release a security token smartphone app. Tokens/apps aren't 100% foolproof, but they're a good start.

[Ximonika]

I would think that SE could demolish the people doing this by suing them into the ground for profiteering off of their company/game. Plus, it is a violation of the ToA. lol

[Spops]

I came across this tonight and it was really annoying. I did the same thing as you, and tried to click on their name. Would really like to see this change implemented.

[Duelle]

Bumping this in hopes more people see it. I'd really appreciate this being passed on to the devs, because as much as I hate to say it, the spammers are not going to go away and the easier it is to report them, the faster we can go back to enjoying the game.