How can we get Gil sellers banned?

The Gil sellers are already starting with the spam in-game. These scum-sucking maggots are relentless and the spam is being /shouted nearly constantly. While it is possible to add them to the Black List, you have to do this manually.

Can we please get an in-game mechanism put into place for quick reporting of spammers? Like right-click on their name, and click on "Report for spamming". If the system gets a large number of these reports, it should be able to automatically block further /shouts until manual review can be performed.

Also, the spammers are using formats like "www,ff14goldmall,com" which the system should be able to spot and block immediately, particularly after the exact same character string has been broadcast five times. Yes, the spammers can try to work around this, but it takes work and anything we can do to make their lives miserable is a Good Thing.

Finally, after review, can we please permo-ban these disgusting people and their IP addresses? And their credit cards? And every SE account affiliated with them? And then throw their bodies to the annoyed masses in the centers of the cities, where in a FATE we can all enjoy ripping their pathetic carcasses into shreds for fun and profit?

Thank you, and have a pleasant day.

Gil Sellers are also taking up slots that legitimate players could use for actually playing the game. Getting them banned ASAP would help as I've already seen groups of them out PL'ing etc.

omg people sell gil already, havent seen them. However i currently sit on 140k gil and i dont realy use them, so i dont understand why would any buy/be a market for this?

Get their User Name and report it to Support i don't know if images will be necessary http://support.na.square-enix.com/co...382&la=1&fty=2

I've been cut and pasting the spam text in the game into a trouble ticket, under the "Report Harassment" option. There is no option for spamming, but clogging up the /shout channel with their TOS-violating crap is harassment. I encourage everyone to report every spammer you see, no matter how many others may report it. The more reports, the more info they have to get the account shut down ASAP.

And while I hate the spammers, I want them to waste as much real-world money as possible buying subscriptions and then getting banned with no refund. I want that money to go to buying more servers :D

Well said OP! full boss style.

It's beyond me why SE would not implement the same antispam measures they put in FFXI in FFXIV. Even if they felt the game's monetary system would deter gil buying and selling, it doesn't hurt to be proactive just in case.

Hello everyone!

We are glad you are having fun playing FINAL FANTASY and we are sorry that the Real Money Trading shouts have already begun.

If you should see any of these types of shouters, you are free to place a GM Call through the System Menu. As we do not have an option to directly report these spammers to us, we ask you choose the "Harassment" option in the Support Desk menu.

We ask that you include the name of the shouter along with a sample of what they had said. The GM staff will then receive your call and address the spamming; we will be sending you a message instead of offering a live contact to ensure your game play is not interrupted.

We are looking into methods to directly report them to us without using the Support Desk system, but we ask for you to bear with us until we get the tools developed. Your feedback is greatly appreciated and we will continue to work with you to stop this type of violation as quickly as possible.

We will go ahead and leave this thread open as we look forward to hearing more ideas on how to combat this issue. Please note, though, if any posts violate our Term of Service, the post may be removed and action may need to be taken; please keep the replies constructive.

Thank you, again, for your continued support. Good luck and have a fun time!

Hello,

Some ideas I can think of involve rate of /shouts and /tells a player can do. Legitimate /tell's will almost always have a back and forth with someone. If the amount of /tells they send doesn't come close to the amount of /tell's received from the person they /tell'ed, make the account.

/Shout's can be sometime similar. But the rate/amount of shouts can have an growing allow rate. i.e. shout once, have to wait 5 minutes. Shout again, have to 10 minutes. If the amount of shouts per account reaches a certain number per real day, shout is disabled for the rest of the day and the account is flagged.

It'd also be handy to have a server that pulls chat logs (snmp?) of /tells and/or /shouts nightly and parses it. With that, and a regex command, you can get a good amount of player names to mark for investigation for banning.

Of course, the best way to deal with this is to find the accounts that hold the gil that's being sold and ban them. That's just manual investigation work >.<

Last few days I've started getting direct whispers with this spam, so I have to keep blacklisting the person doing it. Getting annoying.

Reminds me of the days of early WoW. Oh how I got annoyed. Frustrated and angry and threatening the dead air for they don't care no matter how hard I wanted their dead bodies displayed for their fellow spammers to see and fear.

Then came the lovely block/spam option.

Yes SE. Give us this. At least then some people stress levels will be lower. XD

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While these would probably work, they would work against legitimate players more often then against gil sellers. People very often /shout for help finding things in zones and even more people /shout back answers. With your system, someone with a question wouldn't even be able to say thank you to the people offering answers and would very likely get /shouts disabled by the end of the day. Might as well not have a /shout option at all.

Or if you send /tells to a friend where you do more of the talking (like explaining game concepts or a dungeon mechanic) you would be flagged as a possible rmt because of the imbalance? I'm all for finding solutions to stop gil sellers, but those solutions must have no effect on legit players. I would rather put up with gil seller's spam then have my /shouts and /tells limited.

IT's said that Gill doesnt have value but thats not entirely true and the very reason these RMT's are on the rise!
Have you seen the prices on items on the board 6K up and it takes weeks to make like 10K.
Also the reporting tool needs a major upgrade because it is too difficult to use while playing the game!
It should auto populate the Server, Area, & Time!
All we should do is type in a name of the player and select from a list what what they did!
Also if it was possible they should have a direct approach by right clicking the name of the tell or shout or a dedicated button on a game pad to just select from a list of violations so the message is directly sent to the help desk!

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Well, yes and no. This system is already in place and working. It's called TCP/IP. The idea is that it length doesn't need to be 50/50. The idea is that there is a response. It's the same model networks try to use to mitigate DDOS attacks.

As for the shouts, the idea isn't perfect. It's just an idea. The numbers can be tweaked. But I think most would agree. Sitting in town to hear 50 shouts asking for events can be just as annoying as the same rate of shouts for selling gil.

I was just reminded from my college that some of their servers cannot be accessed by ip's that belong to hosting companies or data centers. Maybe we can limit request of new accounts and new character creations from ip's that are not from ISP's.

In a way I kind of wish there was an option to turn off the chat for situations like these. Instead of having to fill up the blacklist option so quick.

Here's an idea, kill the problem at the root, ban the brainless people who are lazy and buy from the gil sellers, if there wasn't a demand for it the gil sellers wouldn't be there, simple but also common sense, most places are meant to be in a state of hardship money wise, don't seem it when people blow loads of money on gil than playing the game to earn it

Couldn't you just add "Report" to the context menu (along with send tell and etc.) and if so many reports are initiated within a given amount of time, the user is suspended until the infractions are investigated?

I mean think about it, it would be easy for a gil seller to get 30 reports in a 60 second period.. and if any normal players got that many.. well it had to be something that offended many players.

Seems easy enough.

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Originally Posted by Papabear

The Gil sellers are already starting with the spam in-game.

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That is not the worst thing, my friend, that is not the worst thing...

http://i.imgur.com/HRIjDqX.png

This task force they mentioned and the 500 people they banned. there's about a hundred servers at 5 people each... yeah they sure stuck it to them.. meanwhile i have a blacklist up to 76 player names now on ONE server and its always the same websites they mention. so if they want to brag about banning gil sellers, atm they need to have about 7600 accounts.... 76 for each server....

I dont think the gms actually play this game, i bet it is just some outsourced company that reads out concerns via email.. and presses a generate same generic response button.

If they really were on the game too it wouldn't take them 5 seconds to read the shout spam and tear gil sellers to peices. Same with the random whisps, one whisp to a gm about buying gil off their website: BANNED.

How hard would it be to hire a guy for each server just to sit there and warp around towns, or are they admitting that the game isn't enough fun to play themselves?