DEAR GOD MAKE IT STOP!!!

I am so fed up with the RMT spam every single day. It has been so bad on Diabolos you cant go anywhere without RMT spam . It so bad it has moved out of the cities and into the zones . It is so bad you cant even blacklist them . And its like 5 RMTs fighting over the chat . SE what gives ? I have filed report after report and nothing . How hard is it to ban these accounts . I mean all you do is log in the server see the wall to wall none stop spam fest and drop the ban hammer . Some people in my GC have stopped playing because of it . Something needs to be done and fast . Also why is the NA/EU servers always down? I mean come on whats the deal . I am not sure how bad it is on other servers . But this is something so easy to fix . So please Fix it thanks :)

When one adds 15 players to block list in 1 day just in gridania alone, ya something needs to be done, but ultimately the spammers are stolen accounts because some players feel trapped because they have no gil so they turn to those sites and have their accounts "stolen."

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Originally Posted by DarkRain

I am so fed up with the RMT spam every single day. It has been so bad on Diabolos you cant go anywhere without RMT spam . It so bad it has moved out of the cities and into the zones . It is so bad you cant even blacklist them . And its like 5 RMTs fighting over the chat . SE what gives ? I have filed report after report and nothing . How hard is it to ban these accounts . I mean all you do is log in the server see the wall to wall none stop spam fest and drop the ban hammer . Some people in my GC have stopped playing because of it . Something needs to be done and fast . Also why is the NA/EU servers always down? I mean come on whats the deal . I am not sure how bad it is on other servers . But this is something so easy to fix . So please Fix it thanks :)

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It has been bad, but they are slowly but surely dealing with it. Hopefully when the pay periods start, the RMT will cut be cut down be a good deal. We'll see.

Turning off shout/yell in cities fixes most of the problem for me. I still get the occasional tell, but those I /blist add <r>.

I don't even notice it anymore on gilga

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Originally Posted by Suirieko

It has been bad, but they are slowly but surely dealing with it. Hopefully when the pay periods start, the RMT will cut be cut down be a good deal. We'll see.

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It's not though, I came across two botters farming Diremite webs yesterday, me and a bunch of others sent a compliant to a GM and 6 hours later they were still there, I'm willing to bet if I log in now they will still be there.

i just make it so my general chat tab doesn't show /shout and /yell. i'll turn it on someday

Just proactively blacklist. It's annoying but it works. I barely ever see the shouts and when I do I quickly block them and the world goes on. What is really driving me crazy now is the non-RMTs that start spamming chat responding to them. There was someone shouting "I don't have any money." after every single gil seller shout and a bunch of people joined in. Now I've got almost a dozen non-RMTs on my list.

That sounds even worse than my server. I did see this one guy spamming tho it was almost unbearable, his spamming went so fast I could barely even click his name in time to add to blacklist.

RMT shout stop at LL in the city at excalibur last night....just sudden gone no idea what happen

They are dealing with it, I noticed afew from my blacklist now show up as (deleted) so they are being stopped slowly just be patient

For the ones that send you tells, there's an easy macro to help aleviate that.

/blist add <r>

Otherwise, just copypasta their names into /blist add "Stupid Gilseller" (quotes needed) and that should help things a bit for you.

Right now, I'm running with my shout and yell channels filtered and it's made the game much more pleasant inside cities.

RMT logic: lets spam ppl with our crappy ads and keylogging websites, cause that will make them buy from us >_>

Those few who buy from those sites deserve to have their accounts stolen and banned :P

I just blist them and the problem goes away.

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Originally Posted by Jinko

It's not though, I came across too botters farming Diremite webs yesterday, me and a bunch of others sent a compliant to a GMT and 6 hours later they were still there, I'm willing to bet if I log in now they will still be there.

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Just for the sake of argument ... I farm Dwebs alot, and people have sent me tells saying they were reporting me for botting. I have lots of patience, and I'm very fast with claims.

Food for thought, some people are just bad/slow/mad etc...

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Originally Posted by Tiggy

I just blist them and the problem goes away.

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Not really its annoying to go to social tab and blacklist 3 people every time you zone. Needs to be rightclick blacklist if se doesn't want to put mods on server.

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Originally Posted by Dreamer

Turning off shout/yell in cities fixes most of the problem for me. I still get the occasional tell, but those I /blist add <tt>.

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"/blist add <tt>" that is becoming a macro on my cross bar. +1 like

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Originally Posted by BlazeChronic

Just for the sake of argument ... I farm Dwebs alot, and people have sent me tells saying they were reporting me for botting. I have lots of patience, and I'm very fast with claims.

Food for thought, some people are just bad/slow/mad etc...

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They are still there, that's 24 hours so far, spinning in circles looking for targets as soon as they spawn, I know what a bot looks like ;)

Too bad SE don't. :S

They would not spam, if people did not buy

People need to secure their accounts. Make a very hard to guess passwords. Use Script Blockers for your browsers and do not go to those websites that the RMT are advertising and finally, get a security token. The less people are hacked, the less shoutiing, gil stolen for sale will these RMT have.

I've seen the same gold spammer standing in the same spot in Limsa for almost a week now. I really don't think SE is doing a thing about the problem.

One of these days I'll get around to creating a new chat tab for in city that disables yell and shout. I still like shout outside the city though.

Worst thing in game is to go from your usual city to a different one and get instantly bombarded with the other cities 5 competing gold spammers from oddly enough the same website.

Turn off /shout or if you're civil minded, just report them. They permanently banned 860-ish accounts recently for RMT, and the SE special investigation squad for dealing with RMT is pretty good. But what else do you expect them to do? It's not like they can stop stupid people from using the same password and username for unsecured sites (which includes fansites) or buying currency. All they can do is ban them as they come. Otherwise honest players get punishing, draconian **** like limiting your ability to chat just because some people need instant entitled gratification. >.>

Filter shout/yell. It drastically reduces the amount of spam you'll see. Sure you'll still get a few /tells in a day but that's better than not being able to see your chat log.

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Originally Posted by sharazisspecial

Not really its annoying to go to social tab and blacklist 3 people every time you zone. Needs to be rightclick blacklist if se doesn't want to put mods on server.

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/blist add "user name"

No need to goto the social tab what-so-ever.

Pro-tip: Click their name to send a tell. Then reformat the text into the /blist add "user name" format in order to make text input easier.

I still dont see why SE doesnt add one of those verification email code things like Rift had.

Any account that doesnt have the security authenticator installed needs to input a code sent by SE to their email if they try to log in from a different (and especially foreign) IP address. If they dont do it then chat is disabled, and no access to banks or anything an RMT could want. If you have one of those PPPoE connections that change frequently (they still do those?) and it bothers you then get the authenticator. Honestly, this should be standard stuff.

I have also turned off /shout and /yell, but completely disabling game features to avoid RMT spam doesn't seem like a sound solution.

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Originally Posted by tuseroni

"/blist add <tt>" that is becoming a macro on my cross bar. +1 like

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Ack! Don't use that one! Didn't realize til I saw my quote that I'd goofed - it should be /blist add <r>, which blists the last person who sent you a tell. /blist add <tt> will try to belist your target's target. ^.^;;

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Originally Posted by Kayo

I still dont see why SE doesnt add one of those verification email code things like Rift had.

Any account that doesnt have the security authenticator installed needs to input a code sent by SE to their email if they try to log in from a different (and especially foreign) IP address. If they dont do it then chat is disabled, and no access to banks or anything an RMT could want. If you have one of those PPPoE connections that change frequently (they still do those?) and it bothers you then get the authenticator. Honestly, this should be standard stuff.

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Agreed, this would be a great start, lets go SE!

The most disturbing thing to me about these Chinese gil sellers is, they wouldn't have a job if people weren't buying these gold packages.... Who are the D-bags that's actually supporting these loser gold sellers? Why would you even play this game if you're that pitiful of a person?