RMT Spammers out of hand on Balmung

Used to be, I'd have to only blacklist 1 maybe 2 every other day. But recently, every single day I am blacklisting 10-15 RMT spammers. Something seriously needs to be done, because they are really out of hand on my server. I don't know if it is the same on other servers, I am assuming so, but if I was making a ticket on each one, I'd be spending most of my day reporting them.

One idea which World of Warcraft did, was added in an option to report and stick the spammers on an invisible blacklist, and if the spammers got x amount of those right clicks, the account is closed till investigated. Perhaps the same needs to be done here. Either that or start blocking the IP of these bot spammers.

The RMT know that 2.2 is releasing new crafted gear and by extension their market (bads that buy gil to ''gear up") are going to be purchasing in the near future. Like roaches smelling a meal, they are going to be bad through the first week or two of 2.2 and then it'll go back down to pre-patch levels.

Not to be mean, but are you seriously surprised?

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Originally Posted by Xayoc

The RMT know that 2.2 is releasing new crafted gear and by extension their market (endgame FC that buy gil and bot to ''gear up") are going to be purchasing in the near future. Like roaches smelling a meal, they are going to be bad through the first week or two of 2.2 and then it'll go back down to pre-patch levels.

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Cleaned that up.

On Ragnarok its less than balmung, dunno about others.

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Originally Posted by Anienai

Cleaned that up.

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For someone who has no FC yet is seemingly an expert on how every FC bots and buys gil to clear Turn 5, you certainly put your foot in your mouth there...

Also, explain to me how a player with 2 50s has yet to clear the main story. It makes me wonder how much you paid pvpbank for your account.

I played for 2 hours last night. I blacklisted 6 RMT. (Sargantas)

There has been an increase in the last few weeks.

What areas are you at? I spent about 3 hours in Coil last night and the rest in Ul'dah and the Thanalan area. In a total of about 7 hours I only had 6 people to blacklist. (Balmung if not obvious)

I blisted 9 myself on Balmung yesterday. Seem to be especially spammy when in one of the 3 big cities. Four in Ul'dah, three in Grid and two while in wineport.

I wonder the spamming is heightened because RMT spammers are worried that their ability to steal accounts will become harder in 2.2 when in game bonus is given to those who use one time passwords.