Why am I always getting tells for RMT?!!?

I am new to this game and really like it, but getting spammed by RMT tells and having to blacklist gibberish names every 15 minutes is getting old quick. Why is nothing being done about this?

There is plenty being done but the moment they ban accounts the RMT'ers make new ones.

I just don't understand how this is happening. I played WOW for years and never had this issue. What seems funny to me is that when I issue a complaint on the game support the tells seem to stop, until I log off and then back on. As soon as I log on, I am greeted with a RTM tell.

It probably seems to stop because RMTs use the same account for upwards of 15 minutes to repeatedly spam people. If you're the first one hit and you blacklist them, you probably won't be hit again for a little while (and if you are in a dungeon or something you cannot receive /tells) unless there are multiple accounts spamming the same zone at that time. Square's not as aggressive about removing RMT as most people would like. The temporarily ban rather than delete because RMT frequently steal legitimate accounts and get up to shenanigans so SE of course wants to restore accounts to their owners rather than destroy them. Personally I'm not even sure how RMT exists in this game given that there's virtually no player economy and very limited uses for gil in excess of the amounts you receive from regular play.

lucky for me being in Masamune, seems RMT in that world is dead, haven't been getting any RMT spams for 4-5 months already. But i do know is that a lot of NA/EU servers has them majority thou not all w.

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Originally Posted by Seirra_Lanzce

lucky for me being in Masamune, seems RMT in that world is dead, haven't been getting any RMT spams for 4-5 months already. But i do know is that a lot of NA/EU servers has them majority thou not all w.

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Yup. and here's me repeating same story again:
Back in Sargatanas, 5-10 rmt's /t dailies. /blist almost full. ><
Moved to Masamune, zero! lol

Maybe encourage RMT to learn speaking japanese so they can annoy JP server too? lol

The main reason I can imagine they still spam on FF14 is because there is a market for gil selling, and in my honest opinion the market is created by Square. The unreal cost of housing is ridiculous, I understand why it is so; however prices like these entice lazier people to just buy the gil. If people stop buying gil, the sellers make no money and would stop spamming.

I'm sure Square is doing what they can to prevent the spamming, however it isn't up to them whether or not the gil sellers make money. Having played a lot of free to play MMOs, I can honestly say the spamming is extremely mild compared to what I'm use to (spam so fast you can't even scroll up to read what people said). I just blacklist them and move along. Try not to let a few spammers ruin your experience.

I fixed it!! I will get no more in game spam! My solution...cancel my subscription. After dealing with an in game GM and having them tell me that the only way they can help with the situation was for me to submit a report and send them a copy of each tell when I got one. I laughed and said I have a better solution. It is a shame, I was willing to pay each moth to play this game.

Honestly it's a minor inconvenience at best. Cancelling you sub? That seems a little extreme if you claim you wanted to play this game.

Blacklist. Report. Move on is the best solution on our end

Yes I may have gone overboard, but the lack of help from SE is frustrating. I am not sure as to why they didn't recommend the busy setting? Does this exist? Can I turn this on on PS3 and not receive tells?

When the game first launched, we didn't even have the blacklist option in the right-click menu. The way to blacklist someone was to open up the blacklist page and write out their name, or write it out on the chat panel as /blacklist "character name". (All those weird letter-jumble names that are so popular with the RMT spammers were a real pain for that.) And at the time, it wasn't just tells. We got constantly spammed in the Shout (and sometimes Yell) channels as well, to the point where it was impossible to use those channels for legitimate purposes because real messages would get buried amongst all the RMT spam.

I really thought that when SE finally added the blacklist option to the right-click menu, they would have added a Report option as well (perhaps two, for report RMT and report harassment). It could have automatically taken the chat line we right-clicked on and sent it to the team that handles these reports, giving them the sender, reporter, time, and message text. It would have been more effective, as RMT spammers would get reported quicker and more consistently. It would have been easier for their team, because everything would come in a consistent format rather than whatever the reporting player filled out in a report form. And it would certainly have been easier for players.

I'm glad SE finally got serious about eliminating the RMT spammers from the global channels. And I'm glad we got that right-click Blacklist option. But I still really wish they'd go the rest of the way: make it easy to report spam /tell messages, and quickly ban those spammers as well.

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Originally Posted by rfk007

Yes I may have gone overboard, but the lack of help from SE is frustrating. I am not sure as to why they didn't recommend the busy setting? Does this exist? Can I turn this on on PS3 and not receive tells?

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You could, but at the same time you cut yourself off from party invites or other non RMT sending tells among other things I can't recall ATM. Do you have a USB keyboard for the PS3? If so type /busy to toggle on and off. If you don't just edit your search options and enable it through the window.

I find it annoying too. I'm in Sargatanas where RMT activity seems to have increased quite a bit in the last few months. It got to the point where I made a "blacklist RMT" macro. I just hit that whenever I get a tell.

"/blist add <r>" is the command, incidentally. It automatically adds the last person to send you a /tell. Opens a confirmation window, so hit that then enter and you're golden.

I'm not sure if there's a way to add "yes add them" into the macro, but it's probably prudent to do without. I've had it before where a real friend will send me a /tell immediately after an RMT, so I wouldn't want to blacklist them.

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Originally Posted by rfk007

Yes I may have gone overboard

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Indeed.

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Originally Posted by rfk007

but the lack of help from SE is frustrating.

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Not having the help you were expecting is pretty different from not having help at all.

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Originally Posted by rfk007

I am not sure as to why they didn't recommend the busy setting? Does this exist? Can I turn this on on PS3 and not receive tells?

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Why would a GM recommend the use of a feature that locks out your ability to receive private messages from legit players?
Anyways, yes, you can set your online status to busy from the Social Menu (or just type /busy).
On a side note, did you know you can right click on the name displayed on the chat log and select "Add to blacklist"? I guess you didn't. It doesn't matter, though, since you have already canceled your subscription, right?

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Originally Posted by LlenCoram

I find it annoying too. I'm in Sargatanas where RMT activity seems to have increased quite a bit in the last few months.

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"quite a bit"? It's already way worse by the time I moved to another server.

So I guess town at Sarg nowadays are become really deserted huh?

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Originally Posted by BobbinT

"quite a bit"? It's already way worse by the time I moved to another server.

So I guess town at Sarg nowadays are become really deserted huh?

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Not at all, every city is always jumping. I guess people just take it as a necessary evil in any MMO.

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Originally Posted by Vivi_Bushido

Part of the problem is that enough people are actually buying from these "RMT" otherwise they would've quit doing it by now.

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really? Then why the hell RMT only attack US server? It's really a huge contrast from my current server. Dunno for other JP server, but I haven't found any of them reporting these annoyance like players at US servers.

Sargatanas: Mind-numbingly, super annoying RMT activities.
Masamune: Zero! Total silence. Not even a single /t or /sh or /yell in months.

They are part of big reason why I move. I also heard that RMT market in other region are quite big, including Asia continent. Doesn't really making sense.

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Originally Posted by BobbinT

really? Then why the hell RMT only attack US server?

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Because it's undoubtedly where they get their most business

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Originally Posted by BobbinT

really? Then why the hell RMT only attack US server? It's really a huge contrast from my current server. Dunno for other JP server, but I haven't found any of them reporting these annoyance like players at US servers.

Sargatanas: Mind-numbingly, super annoying RMT activities.
Masamune: Zero! Total silence. Not even a single /t or /sh or /yell in months.

They are part of big reason why I move. I also heard that RMT market in other region are quite big, including Asia continent. Doesn't really making sense.

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Originally Posted by Shirai

The Japanese RMT just as much as us westerners but they use different companies.
Companies that don't do ingame advertising, if you are in Japan and visit a FF community site not hosted by SE that allows advertising however you will be swarmed by banners of Japanese RMT sites.

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Originally Posted by Nutz

Personally I'm not even sure how RMT exists in this game given that there's virtually no player economy and very limited uses for gil in excess of the amounts you receive from regular play.

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^This right here... QFT!!! lol