Gil Spam is unbearable at this point

The amount of Gil spammers on here is geeting so bad I need to blacklist 3 at a time. and on a PS3 this is very tedious. Please Square Enix start having better in game support and start dropping the hammer on these guys. it gone on to long already.now please white knights have your fun. :cool:

I honestly don't see why they didn't have the chat filters for this ready at launch. Knowing XI had the same problem and alrdy knowing how to fix it doesn't make much sense on there part.

I don't understand why there is no right click report/ignore. But what else do you expect them to do. There is no way to completely stop them they just need to be reported and banned and that stuff is not instant. A lot of them appear to be real accounts as well.

Please SE, figure out how to get rid of the Gil Spammers. For those of us on PS3 they have rendered the chatbox useless.

Is there an easier way to blist without having to go into the whole menu to type their name in? Like in XI, it was /blist add Name

On PC, you can make a 4th chat pane and customize the filters for it (just like the default ones). I made one that has all chat except /tell and /say disabled. Whenever I enter a city, I just switch to that pane until I leave. The RMT /tells are still pretty rare, likely because it isn't very efficient. If you can do this on PS3, it will make your life much easier.

I played FFXI over 5 years and never saw the amount of gil spamming as I do now. Shout is now usless because the only way to slow it down is to filter all shouts. Blacklisting is almost impossible on PS3 as Gil spammers use hard to read and remember names. We REALLY need a click on the name in chatlog with option to blist. Please adress this situation SE.

I just hope SE is getting the reports others as well as myself are sending them about these spammers. I know I send a report in the contact section at least once a day.

I agree. The simplest solution would be a right-click/subcommand, then ignore or report button in the chat box. Other than that, you can hotbar a macro to /blist tells, but I don't know a macro to combat shouters....

Got to say I'm more than a little but dismayed by all the gold sellers and the lack of reporting and ignoring features on the chat window.

yeah it seems like as soon as I add to black list new ones just start popping up. Where the hell are the world GM like they had in FF11? I mean really if you can tell who is legitimately spamming to sell gil then there is a problem. and if its a GM they should be able to lock them in a time out room like they did in FF11. and if the time out room isn't enough then ban them period, its high time they start getting this under control. this kind of behavior should be deemed unacceptable since its a break of the terms of service. in stead SE wanted to make a stink from the get go about youtubes and streamers, in which they changed since then but seriously they need to worry about this. im beginning to think its a system wide virus that is doing it.

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Originally Posted by MiaFrost

Is there an easier way to blist without having to go into the whole menu to type their name in? Like in XI, it was /blist add Name

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You can do that here, atleast on PC.
Click their name and choose send tell then rename tell to blist (/blist faggoty spammer)

copy all name and paste to blocklist.

They really, really need to implement a better system, though. Leaving the inn room when I log in to be greeted with this scrolling ceaselessly is unacceptable....
http://static.dyp.im/ZJvkoRj8XQ/cf5f...e525266c48.png

They're spamming so fast on Midgardsormr that it's almost a game in itself just to click or copy a name to /blist. There needs to be an auto-report/blist function added soon. The amount of spam is insane.

My spam is constant and I can't use the chat window. This is unacceptable.

I agree. I definitely feel for the PS3 users having to try and add spammers to the blacklist like I do on a PC, and wholeheartedly agree that there needs to be an easier function to blacklist, or for SE to put the banhammer down and fast.

I swear SE is getting paid off by these gold selling site, on top of selling account information n shit. I wouldn't be surprised one bit. This is highly disruptive to game play and social aspects and these scum sucking parasites need a good ass whooping.

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Originally Posted by Riderpride

I agree. I definitely feel for the PS3 users having to try and add spammers to the blacklist like I do on a PC, and wholeheartedly agree that there needs to be an easier function to blacklist, or for SE to put the banhammer down and fast.

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dude im using a ps3 with a keyboard connected to it,and the amount of menus to get to it is ridiculous. I cant believe they haven't public addressed this to the community that they are even concerned. I mean the servers seem to be working now and now they need to play better catch up with my support tickets and they need to do something about the spam. once this is done im going to be very happy with this title. until then I wonder what SE is doing with the millions they just made on this.

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Originally Posted by Peppita

I swear SE is getting paid off by these gold selling site, on top of selling account information n shit. I wouldn't be surprised one bit. This is highly disruptive to game play and social aspects and these scum sucking parasites need a good ass whooping.

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Doubt they sell account information becouse that just gives them 1000x more work with whiny customers. But what they dont do is ban area's where these spammers come from. They just ban their account and let them get another one. Becouse that is a constant stream of money comming in from gil sellers.
So most companies try to find a way to balance the spam and not ban people to fast becouse then the gil sellers might leave and they lose their steady income of cash.

i really dont get it why people have to do such stupid things being spammer and selling game money for real money in P2P game, for every each account need to buy the game to play, if there are no stupid people try go to their site and giving them free account, one day the spammers will gone forever and will out of money to pay for the game :)

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Originally Posted by KingXRay

i really dont get it why people have to do such stupid things being spammer and selling game money for real money in P2P game, for every each account need to buy the game to play, if there are no stupid people try go to their site and giving them free account, one day the spammers will gone forever and will out of money to pay for the game :)

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They don't buy the accounts they use to spam these messages, they use accounts that they have stolen so they have nothing to lose, when the account they are using gets closed down they just move onto another stolen account.

Anyway I don't blame the gold sellers, it's the idiots who buy the gold and pay for power levelling that are the ones who are to blame. Those people are the ones who are personally responsible for all the spam and headaches that are caused in all the games we play they are the ones who ruin the games for everyone else, and if it wasn't for them there would be no spam, so they are the ones who really need to be banned.

well SE needs to do something, cant believe they are letting this slide like this.

I was sent a Tell from a bot that I blacklisted. How's that for scary?

Just Blacklist them, it takes 5-10 seconds. If you want to do more, Contact support-> report cheat; there is a template there, it takes another 10-20 seconds to complete.

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Originally Posted by felter

Anyway I don't blame the gold sellers, it's the idiots who buy the gold and pay for power levelling that are the ones who are to blame. Those people are the ones who are personally responsible for all the spam and headaches that are caused in all the games we play they are the ones who ruin the games for everyone else, and if it wasn't for them there would be no spam, so they are the ones who really need to be banned.

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Also blame the elitist linkshells that are now selling hardmode content at up to 500,000g a run. For people that are in smaller or less progressed linkshells but are themselves up to doing this content it could be very tempting to buy the gil so they don't have to wait in queues for hours for a run. That a linkshell charges 500,000g a run is just pure greed. They know very few will actually have that amount just sitting there this early in the game.

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Originally Posted by 10TailBeast

I was sent a Tell from a bot that I blacklisted. How's that for scary?

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Had the same thing happen yesterday on Diabolos. :(

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Originally Posted by gigi_frana

Just Blacklist them, it takes 5-10 seconds. If you want to do more, Contact support-> report cheat; there is a template there, it takes another 10-20 seconds to complete.

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Guess you didn't actually READ this thread? Most the people posting are on PS3 where it is not a simple, easy 5-10 second task. It is actually very time consuming and difficult to do on a PS3.

Its just a good thing that Im already invested in the game. If I was a new player logging in for the first time to this - I would just log off and uninstall it.

A not-really-a trick I was told about today to blacklist/report spammers on a PS3:

select, then arrow up to the first spammer name, hit x and pick "send tell". This fills in the chatbox /tell 'spammer name'. hit O and it keeps the /t 'spammer name' sitting in the chatbox, so you can look at it while you are typing your blist and report cheating.

do that for the next spammer until they are all done for that zone. It cut my time spent getting all the RMT blacklisted and reported in every zone down to a tenth of what it was.

One thing I did find out is that while you have your blacklist window open you will see all the spam shouts, even those people you have blacklisted - it's as if the blacklist only works when you aren't looking at it.


edited because I cannot spell.

I gave up blisting and just created a new chat window that has no shouts or tells....I'm no longer bothered by gold spammers.

I personally use a /blist add <r> macro to blacklist spammers who send me a tell.

I'd like to give you one example of the tricks RMT spammers. Unfortunately I do not have the English-language examples, but I hope you will be able to translate and interpret (comprehend) it.

http://ipic.su/img/img7/fs/Shot03080.1378867222.jpg

I do not know what goals (what is the point) of this "encyclopedic" but I have reason to fear the emergence of the kind.
Use chat in this case is quite impossible.