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.

same on phoenix, the RMT's exploded recently , probably anticipating ps4 launch :D

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Originally Posted by Anienai

Cleaned that up.

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Looks like someone is speaking from experience

On Zalera I typically blist three just at login. I then set myself to Busy as quickly as possible so I don't have to deal with it anymore. I'd probably have a lot more if I didn't do that.

/busy stops all tells from everyone...but that includes people you want to talk to.

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Originally Posted by Blackweaver

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.

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I'm on Balmung and I get 1, maybe 2 people a day advertising to me. Either you've somehow made yourself a target or you are gravely exaggerating.

They're everywhere!

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Originally Posted by mindbinder

/busy stops all tells from everyone...but that includes people you want to talk to.

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Which is the people in my FC. They already have the means to talk to me.

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Originally Posted by Xayoc

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.

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....how exactly does gil relate to clearing turn 5?

What, you think people are going full-bore i70 in there? o_O

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Originally Posted by Eagleheart

....how exactly does gil relate to clearing turn 5?

What, you think people are going full-bore i70 in there? o_O

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well according to the guy he quoted the top fc's tossed gil at twintania to down her so lets wait for him to enlighten us how

Also on Balmung, but only get maaaaaybe one RMT a day. It's not uncommon for me to go a few days without one. They must know I have no money!



I wouldn't buy gil even if I had money to burn. Don't be reporting me!. lol.

If I am crafting in uldah lately and don't go anywhere, I can average at least one an hour. But if I move around and go to some other zones I might get one a day maybe. So just from personal experience they must target people in certain zones.

I've also seen a big spike in RMT tells the last week or two. I typically get 5-10 a day now. I used to always report them but frankly I often can't break what I'm doing now. I'm only able to report a half or a third of them nowadays.

Was on very briefly during lunch today on Balmung (30 minutes) and received almost 20 tells from the same bot. They would come in two at the same time, then one more 30 seconds later. Then it'd be quiet for 5 minutes until the same pattern repeated.

I was in Limsa Lominsa.

Typically on a given day I will be out in the field of late practicing botany (Still low level) and get tells in every zone. I especially get tells in housing and any visits to the cities. As I said, I used to blist 1 maybe 2 a day. But this spike has gotten ridiculous. It don't matter what zone I goto, they spam regardless.

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Originally Posted by Tildaor

Was on very briefly during lunch today on Balmung (30 minutes) and received almost 20 tells from the same bot. They would come in two at the same time, then one more 30 seconds later. Then it'd be quiet for 5 minutes until the same pattern repeated.

I was in Limsa Lominsa.

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Does getting tells from the same person even count? Blacklist him and it would have been 1, or two if it came back to back.

I generally turn off /tell from my chat I barely use it to begin with I use FC chat or party chat and it save me the trouble of filling up my blacklist. Though it also around that time again for the next wave of ban hammars to come around also sounds like you have to many people buying gil on your server to their just as much to blame for feeding the demand...

I don't mind the constant in-town shouting but the private tells are beyond annoying. Even with the ability to quickly block them. There are just so many that you kinda just have to tune out all private messages.

I really wonder how SE doesn't do credit card based bans to account creation?!

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Originally Posted by Xayoc

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.

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Did I hit a nerve? Thanks for letting the rest of the community know where to buy gil. Someone has a case of the mads.