Gil sellers are driving me nuts

If its not bad enough for them to spam there TOA violating websites in citys, it's worse to get tells from them. In the last 20 minutes, I've reported several accounts linked to one gil selling website.

Guys, if you see gil sellers, report them, so square can ban their accounts, and make room on the servers for people that actually want to actually play the game play the game.

FYI, if the gil sellers are gone, their bots go with them(Ip bans in da house son).

These Jerks are taking up legitimate player slots on the servers. :mad:

Can't get on the server after 7 hours of macro spamming the login....sigh

How can we report them aside from writing a ticket? Imo Square Enix should implement a report button for easier access to send tickets. And yea, I've also seen them often already, pming me. Wish there would be at least a rightclick ignore function.

it goes deeper than even that. Where do you think the gil sellers get their gil?

They get it by having large groups of "bots" run around killing monsters non-stop for days on end, and then sell the items they gather to NPC's and other players. There have already been numerous sightings of bot swarms on several servers. It should look like a group of players with matching jobs and gear running around in perfect formation killing all mobs in their path, many will have similar or nonsense names. They will do this in the same area for hours or days at a time.

The gold spammers and their bots that make up a good portion of the overload. So if, like me, you have had trouble logging on. Gil sellers are a good chunk of the people (and non-people) you should thank. If possible get screenshots of the gil spammer user names and video of the bots in action should you see them. Then report them. Probably won't ever stop them completely, but we can make their lives a living hell in any case.

Unfortunately there's not much we can do but report them. These bots will always be in online games and we just have to accept it. The devs do their best to keep them out, but they are always one step ahead of everyone and is why we will always see them.

Report and block. Best way to battle greedy money grubbers is to see to it they get no money. People like that will ruin the in game economy. FFXI had massive economy problems and I don't want to see it happen here.

I think SE really needs to come down very hard on gilsellers. Like ton of bricks hard.

Also, we need the option to be able to block any incoming tells from players under a certain level/progress status, maybe post Ifrit fight. That would force spammers to have to level up past Ifrit just to spam us with tells. Have it, so if we initiate a tell, then the person can chat to us, or if they're on friends, they're allowed, but short of that - you block all communications from them.

I haven't seen any gil sellers on Leviathan.

I report them, then I tell them I reported them. It made them spam me more, so I blacklisted them. >.>

One actually replied "no pls"

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Originally Posted by Slatervonjager

Gil sellers are driving me nuts

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A pirate walks into the bar with a steering wheel in his pants. He asks for some rum. The bartender says, "Yes, but sir, do you realize you have a steering wheel in your pants?"
The pirate says, "Arr! It's driving me nuts!"


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On a serious note, I don't know if this is your first MMO or what, but nothing will be done about RMT's. If anything you should take in to consideration that If people didn't buy from them they wouldn't exist. I find it ironic that in lieu of a pure capitalist system, the inability of many western players to be good at a video games helps sustain the lives of over half a million Chinese families for providing a service that doesn't even exist in the real world.

The last shout I saw was $5.00 for 10k, and that to me is hilarious... 10k can be made in under 10 minutes by even the srubbiest of srubs, but obviously people are buying, otherwise deflation would force them to lower their price. Regardless, the fact still remains that there are over half a million people in China who make their living off this industry, and they're working for (on average) 100 US dollars a week to survive and feed their families.

The moral of my story is that no matter how many of them get banned, or how many precautions are taken, they will always exist as long as there is a demand, so if you want to blame someone, blame the srubs that buy from them, but take into consideration that people make their living off this, and somewhere in the world a small child in the People's Republic of China is depending on an RMT as a parent to eat this week. Also consider that the only way this effects you at all is because "shouts" in an MMO are obnoxious to you in a game where you no longer even need to read shouts in lieu of a cross server duty finder, so basically you are saying you would rather have a 6 year old Chinese child starve than read obnoxious shouts in your chat log that you could easily filter? I'm just kidding... That would be cruel! Or am I >XD

I personally hate that people can buy online currency, but the fact still remains that nothing can, or will ever be done about it, and crying about it is about it on these forums is about as fruitful as posting on Facebook about how much you hate Miley Cyrus. For me to say that no one cares would be a grotesque understatement.

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Originally Posted by Mijin

I don't know if this is your first MMO or what, but nothing will be done about RMT's. If anything you should take in to consideration that If people didn't buy from them they wouldn't exist. I find it ironic that in lieu of a pure capitalist system, the inability of many western players to be good at a video games helps sustain the lives of over half a million Chinese families for providing a service that doesn't even exist in the real world.

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Yes! Thank you for pointing this out so eloquently :) <3

A pirate walks into the bar with a steering wheel in his pants. He asks for some rum. The bartender says, "Yes, but sir, do you realize you have a steering wheel in your pants?"
The pirate says, "Arr! It's driving me nuts!"


http://zam.zamimg.com/images/1/3/136...c0cf376a69.gif


Ha! I <3 this. Sense of humor amongst the chaos is always good. Thumbs up.

best way to get rid of them: Don't buy gil, especially since it's stupidly easy to make money either through guildleves, or the ingame market. Put them out of business, and no more RMTs, and fewer slots taken up by bots.

Wait a second...how many of these bastards are flooding the servers?! D=<

Banning their accounts is a Win-Win for Square Enix. SE keeps their money, helps cut down partially on the problem, and forces the sellers to purchase a new account.

I do think they need to make it easier to report and block a botter/spammer.

I don't get it. I think they can put those sites on the list of banned words in few minutes.

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Originally Posted by Evangela

I don't get it. I think they can put those sites on the list of banned words in few minutes.

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Then they would just start typing them like this: www.L 0 L. C0m

Also you have to take into consideration that SE would have to pay people to sit there all day and update the ban list, and that's not happening. Why? Because they know you will play the game regardless and it's not financially beneficial for them to pay people to do so. =/

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Originally Posted by Mijin

I personally hate that people can buy online currency, but the fact still remains that nothing can, or will ever be done about it

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Uh, you can report them, maybe? If everyone does, eventually they aren't going to make enough money to pay the sub fees.

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Originally Posted by Amyas

Uh, you can report them, maybe? If everyone does, eventually they aren't going to make enough money to pay the sub fees.

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Because that works... XD

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This seems to be getting worse every day. I can handle shouts in the cities, but getting /tells every 5-10 minutes is really spoiling my enjoyment of the game. Not to mention the devastating effect it will have on the economy.

Also worth considering the blacklist has a limit of only 200, so it wont be long before that's rendered useless too. :(

I would imagine SE are collecting the information now. They will have the details for the characters accounts and be able to trace logs. It just needs policing and we will probably see monthly bans with reports like we had on 11 with the STFU. Their operations will always go for the top dog. The guys advertising will not have the gil, nor will the mules.

The spam filter in 11 worked very well. Before that there were even windower programers who made a no spam plugin. Maybe we will be allowed to use some 3rd party programs in the future if SE can't create a better one. There are lots of talented players out there!

Haven't seen them. First-class JP servers...

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lol and they are expensive too.

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Originally Posted by Starbell

This seems to be getting worse every day. I can handle shouts in the cities, but getting /tells every 5-10 minutes is really spoiling my enjoyment of the game. Not to mention the devastating effect it will have on the economy.

Also worth considering the blacklist has a limit of only 200, so it wont be long before that's rendered useless too. :(

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you can begin to unblock those in blacklist after fee took place, I doubt the gil seller will pay for sub fee just for sell gil, they need to hack some acc

Sadly those saying that not buying their products will force them to leave are wrong. While I wish it did, they can still advertise here by making money selling currencies in other games. The only way we can get rid of them is with an active banning system with dedicated GMs set for this purpose.

Hell I may even be able to log in once they're banned.

Just question, how about we take their sites down by ddosing them to death? You stop selling gold on our game we stop ddos ; >

The same sellers spamming you for hours. Where is the GM team? If they aren't going to actively root out this problem, then please at least give your players the tools to quickly ignore this plague.

This is going to sound funny, but it's not: my blacklist is getting full of golsellers :/.