So, I picked up the game for the first time a few weeks ago. Was happily murdering small rodents and fetching odds and ends when BAM! spam after spam of buy! buy! buy! buy gil! I tried clicking on the name, nope no options there, tried using /ignore Goldceo xxxxx nope unknown command, then i took a few minutes to figure out how to shout and asked the community for help. In between the wall of SPAM, i managed to read something called a blacklist. Another 10 minutes figuring out it was under the social tab...and finally i can silence the damn spammers. I've been playing for about 2 weeks now and i have over 50 names on my blacklist...this epidemic is slowly driving me away from FF14. I thought if I got a P2P game that I could avoid goldfarmer spam or at least have a quick way and efficient way of dealing with them
LIKE A DAMN REPORT FEATURE with a shiny BAN HAMMER!
The woes of being gil spammed
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10-27-2013, 11:54 PMUzudenThe woes of being gil spammed
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10-28-2013, 12:00 AMZaiken
There suddenly a big flock of Goldceo name everywhere all of a sudden. They always whisper you every damn 5 minutes, get really annoying. You block one name, then the next Goldceo with a different last name whisper you again.
Its like logging on to play the blacklist game to see who can fill up their list the fastest. Do something about this rodents SE, or they will invade your whole building and ruins your game. They are spreading like wildfire. -
10-28-2013, 12:09 AMSheerThey said that they are doing something and working on releasing hotfixes/patches to update the game and take action against bots (they also have their STF, or "Special Task Force" assigned to deal with RMTers and, in general, hackers). As for the right-click blacklist feature, they said they're planning to release it in 2.1.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zaiken
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...03#post1353403Quote:
Originally Posted by Camate
The reason it's going to take until patch 2.1 can be found here. -
10-28-2013, 12:15 AMReiterpallasch
While I get the occasional goldceo tell, I find it amazing that I don't get them from any other spammers, and I haven't seen a shout in weeks. I know SE has been working on it, but wow.
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10-28-2013, 12:38 AMWhoopie_Pie
If they are planning to add "Right-Click>Add to Blacklist" I would be so happy.
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10-28-2013, 12:56 AMShiobanThey were considering it, I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Whoopie_Pie
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10-28-2013, 01:06 AMKitfox
/blist add <r>
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10-28-2013, 01:09 AMLyrinn
Can we just autoban anyone whose first name starts with Goldceo?
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10-28-2013, 01:46 AMSheerQuote:
Originally Posted by Shioban
I wish to direct you two back to the third post on this thread, in which I specifically quoted Camate:Quote:
Originally Posted by Whoopie_Pie
The development team has been working on the implementation of the right click to blacklist feature, and is planning to implement it in patch 2.1. -
10-28-2013, 03:08 AMMadix
They need to increase the cap on blacklist too, I'm up to 170 out of 200.
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10-28-2013, 03:16 AMMolly_MillionsThen they would just use another name. Honestly, the buyers need to stop buying, the Titan win sellers need to stop selling wins, and people need to put items up for sale at reasonable prices. SE does need better countermeasures, but autoban on a particular series of characters in a name won't stop anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lyrinn
Probably the best thing they could do is to have actual GMs logged in 24/7. When they end up getting tells or seeing shouts, instaban and research the account to find out who they've traded with and ban those accounts. SE moderates the hell out of these forums, but god only knows why they don't do the same thing in-game.