Square's new RMT solution. Will it work?

I haven't received any friend requests in a while from RMTs but I'm glad they're doing this.

now if they could do something about the damn /tells from them!

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Originally Posted by Defias

They need to pull a WoW and have it where new characters cannot use tell, shout, and yell until they are lvl 10, 15, or 20.
That would end it.

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WoW doesn't have that.... The trials go to 20 and can't use tells(think this restriction is lifted on "expired" veteran accounts, which lets you play under lv20 characters).

I've not once been tell blocked on a sub 20...

Hiding from search query is best option.

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Originally Posted by Airget

Honestly, this is my guess, incoming Linkshell invites. So if you don't want to be invited to a LS by an RMT might want to fill up your slots so you can't recieve any pearls.

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http://imgur.com/yPCIQzK

Its happened elsewhere.

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Originally Posted by Alistaire

I just find it funny it wasn't set to 7. Guy joins new static, sorry guys, can't friend all of you in a day.

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Have half the static friend you instead.

I think its because rmt have started spamming friend requests with their advert /tells now. It is annoying, you get them at the same time from the same rmt. I think that the resolution is in the search parameters used to find the people they spam to and some how fixing the /tell system.

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Originally Posted by Defias

They need to pull a WoW and have it where new characters cannot use tell, shout, and yell until they are lvl 10, 15, or 20.
That would end it.

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this.... its what other games do

Come on people this is eye candy for the masses. RMT have never been reliant on friends request as an integral part of their strategy. It was always just an assist employed by a few. Their main weapon, /tell spams, continues on unchecked and ignored by SE. Until SE addresses this in a meaningful way the problem will persist at its current levels. Considering SE's Laissez-faire approach to the problem in the past I do not expect any substantive action in the future.

I solved the tell problem. All they have to do is add a button where you right click report button. If the same person is reported by 5 different people they get their tells muted until a GM investigates them.

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Originally Posted by Cylestea

this.... its what other games do

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I'll post this again WoW does not do this so don't spread false info. They have a trial account system just like here and that's whats blocked from sending tells.

Biggest difference between RMT here and in Wow is this. In wow they rarely wisp anymore but they instead spam trade chat and use their dead bodies to spell out their website. Since they don't have a trade chat in FFXIV they stick with PM and spamming friend requests.

Yea SE needs to make it easier to deal with them by having a report for spam function like wow and hell maybe find a way to filter them out that blizzard still hasn't figured out how to do.(people made addons to filter gold sellers)


TLDR: add a trade chat so they'll go spam in there or release addons so people can make a chat filter addon like they did in wow and a report for spam function.

Some really great ideas on this thread. I hope this gets noticed =D