What has S.E. said about the suggestion of adding right-click > Report system?

I tend to think the FFXIV Dev Team is probably actually pretty small compared to most AAA titles', which honestly might not be a bad thing: the end product is smoother and stronger, but they only have so many resources they can devote to a given project. So say something like right-click to report takes 40 man-hours of dev time. A bigger dev team can devote five developers to that and get it knocked out in a single work day (40/5/8 = 1). But a smaller dev team might could only devote two developers, which would take two and a half work days (40/2/8 = 2.5). Now, when you look at it, something like this is a relatively simple thing. It probably wouldn't take that much work to develop and test. But if they have a small team (with a lot of requirements), then it may be a lower-priority task, as they need to be very conscious of how they're budgeting their time.

So in the end, if it's a small dev team, then it makes a lot of sense why it takes so long for seemingly simple things like this to be implemented.

I also wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they're being held back by the PS3 dev kit.

I know they are creating new accounts all the time, so it wouldn't solve the problem, but this would cause them to burn through accounts faster at least.

Have it when you blacklist someone, blacklist their entire account rather then just a single character.

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Originally Posted by Zeonx

How would it be great?

Okay give you a example.

They report, that RMT gets banned, they make a new character and spam some more, the report button would do jack squat.

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Ignoring the fact that there is more to report than just RMT.

Controlling who you receive tells from AND getting a right click->Report functionality would effectively neuter RMT in this game. The former would just annihilate /tell RMT spam entirely (especially if that setting had a few options like Everyone/Friends List/Free Company/Linkshell), and the latter when combined with blacklist would suck all power away from the annoying wastes of space who park their lv1 characters by market boards and spam in /say. Only real concern then would be friend requests.

To my knowledge, SE's only response has been copy pasta about what the STF does.

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Originally Posted by Ilitsa

Ignoring the fact that there is more to report than just RMT.

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Really because if I am ignoring that fact, then you are ignoring the fact that there are only 3 STF members working on banning the RMT and even if you do report them, they aren't going to ban them faster than they can create.

You are still going to see spam regardless of the report button and just like the old report button its gonna get old fast.

Because by the time 3 of them check out the details of that RMT to ban them and go to the next 3 those 3 have already made 3 more characters.

Best option is what I said earlier if you can silence them they will vanish its the only way.

People say that report button will work, it didn't work in FFXI and we had more GM support there it kept going until SE made a filter and even region blocked, A lot of people reported back in FFXI and still couldn't get them to vanish is my point.

When you people say oh this will work no its not gonna work you guys go for a temp fix and not a solution and silencing them is better the filter in ffxi silenced them and guess what they vanished I hardly even seen them.

What was left of the RMT bot groups were slowly dying off and eventually were gone.

its gonna turn like league of legends community, you'll get reported for anything and most stupid reasons :p

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Originally Posted by Naliee

If we can't have right-click > report, please give us this at least!

I miss the days I could hide in FFXI with that.

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Yeah invisible was great, nobody could see if you were on friends list, nobody could send you invites.

Nobody would know you were on unless you sent them a tell or seen you in the LS.

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Originally Posted by Malzian

/busy

No tells, no requests.

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No it was nothing like /busy where is busy you have to keep typing it in.

I can log out and back in and stay invisible.

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Originally Posted by Zeonx

No it was nothing like /busy where is busy you have to keep typing it in.

I can log out and back in and stay invisible.

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Adding a UI interface for a right click report would probably nuke PS3s.