Gold Spammers are ruining FF14

SQ-E needs to do something about all the Gold Spammers out there. I've reported all I've seen yet they just keep coming. I turned off Shout but now they are using Yell and tell features and they too are getting out of hand. IDK what can be done but it seems WoW didn't have this problem , neither does Aion, nor Star Wars. PLEASE SQ-E don't let these people keep ruining the gameplay.

I made a new chat window that has yell and shout off for when I'm in the city or even out and don't want to see the fate shouts. I noticed yesterday a few were in the market area using say

Gil buyers are ruining the game. If there is no demand the supply drops.

Instead we got gil buyers posting sob stories how they got banned.

Indeed, this is the worst RMT spam I've ever seen. In other MMOs they're practically nonexistent.

It's partly conjecture but I think 1.0 is to blame. The RMT were allowed free reign there and they massed so much money that they are now desperate to liquidate it before the FFXIV launch hype dies down.

If this is true, I expect we'll be reeling from the "birth pain" for a while to come. I agree it's incredibly stressful to have to see their presence everywhere you go, but it's likely a very large undertaking tracking them all down.

I hope, for SE's sake, the new daily quests being introduced in 2.1 will give people a way to gain more money. Less desperation means less gilbuyers. Less gilbuyers means less sellers. Less sellers means a happy paradise of joy for us all. ♥

P.S. And can we please get a one-minute cooldown on /shout and /yell? I can't see much of a reason for anybody to type that frequently in those channels, RMT or not.

There's no rmt if people arent buying gil. Blame players that buy money rather than poor guy trying to make easy money. If they shout so much it's because it's working.

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Originally Posted by Meimei

Indeed, this is the worst RMT spam I've ever seen. In other MMOs they're practically nonexistent.

It's partly conjecture but I think 1.0 is to blame. The RMT were allowed free reign there and they massed so much money that they are now desperate to liquidate it before the FFXIV launch hype dies down.

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Except that in some cases I think the new servers are far worse than the legacy servers when it comes to the RMT crap.. completely anecdotal with no way to prove this of course.

And I do the same thing as someone above, I keep shout/yell in their own tab and only flip over to it if I'm looking for something, which helps quite a bit.. SE already fixed the issue where the RMT could flood it so fast that you couldn't actually get the name down to blacklist/report.

the price of gil has gone from 4$ to 25$ oer mil in a week on my server, so something is going in the right direction. I guess when they banned the ppl with to much gil they nabbed alot of them.

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Originally Posted by ilJumperMT

Gil buyers are ruining the game. If there is no demand the supply drops.

Instead we got gil buyers posting sob stories how they got banned.

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Or hacked.

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Originally Posted by silverhope

the price of gil has gone from 4$ to 25$ oer mil in a week on my server, so something is going in the right direction. I guess when they banned the ppl with to much gil they nabbed alot of them.

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lol, just means they sold the backlog from 1.0

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Originally Posted by silverhope

the price of gil has gone from 4$ to 25$ oer mil in a week on my server, so something is going in the right direction. I guess when they banned the ppl with to much gil they nabbed alot of them.

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Noticed this on Hyperion as well, increase in cost is a good indicator of lack of supply :D

edit: note that silverhope is on Cactuar != legacy server == no backlog from 1.0.

I was reporting every single one, but of late it is just too much to keep up with. Stopping what I am doing every 4-5 minutes to fill out a report kind of ruins my fun quickly. So I started using a macro until the right-click-report is implemented:

/blist add <r>

Will blacklist the last person who sent a tell to you. A friend shared this with me. Works great.

Not only are they taking up space on servers but space of people who would actually play and not sit in a Hub and spam the same bs for hours on end...sadly RMT's come with a MMO.

Gil sellers/ spammers are part of SE MMOs, take it like a man, SE wont do anything about them they never did, they never do, do, do do

I wouldn't say they're ruining the game, just the chat box.

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Originally Posted by Ruethryl

Noticed this on Hyperion as well, increase in cost is a good indicator of lack of supply :D

edit: note that silverhope is on Cactuar != legacy server == no backlog from 1.0.

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Or an increase in demand

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Originally Posted by Little_Ifrit

I wouldn't say they're ruining the game, just the chat box.

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lol, more gil spammers , means more gil buyers, means inflated economy, have fun buying A vanya casting cloak for 20 million gil :D

Ya this weekend was horrible, it's getting worse, not better. It really upset me when I was trying to actually talk to someone in the game this weekend, but my alt+r was full of spammers, so I had to keep toggling through garbage just to get to the real people I was trying to chat with. Worst part is, that the same people spamming on Sat. were also spamming on Sun. Really SE? you clearly aren't banning these people in real time.

I know in FFXI it got really bad, and the economy got inflated, then they started doing mass bans, and gil removal, so I'm holding out hope that this will be their strategy, but it can't come soon enough, it's really affecting the game NOW.

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Originally Posted by Little_Ifrit

I wouldn't say they're ruining the game, just the chat box.

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You are wrong. They are ruining the game for me. I don't like to be harassed constantly by /shout, /tell, /say, and /yell gil seller spam.

I have had to turn off all those chats, which makes communicating with other players impossible.

I stopped reporting them, since I have over 85 on my blist and more pop up everyday, and only 2-3 were (deleted).

I cancelled my sub, because a company that ALLOWS its players to be harassed is either in with the RMT's or just DON'T CARE. Either way, they don't deserve my support. (I am legacy player and have all Dow/DoM to 50 and was working on getting my crafting/gathering to 50)

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Originally Posted by Eaves12

Gil sellers/ spammers are part of SE MMOs, take it like a man, SE wont do anything about them they never did, they never do, do, do do

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Guess you didn't play XI then. SE combated RMT HARD, to the point where they were completely gone. Also, i'm not sure if any other servers had this. But there was a specific group of RMT on Alexander and they were the COOLEST people. They actually talked to you like a normal human being with an RMT flair of course.. People would run Kirins and sky farm with them.. Incredibly efficient. They'd also give a sweet discount on items if you helped them farm. Was fun!

Don't buy gil, easy as that.

Seriously, I hope anyone buying gil gets banned and has to spend more $$$, re level everything, and gets banned again and again and again. Let the ban bat rain down on all the RMT, no mercy.

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Originally Posted by A-Shock

Guess you didn't play XI then. SE combated RMT HARD, to the point where they were completely gone. Also, i'm not sure if any other servers had this. But there was a specific group of RMT on Alexander and they were the COOLEST people. They actually talked to you like a normal human being with an RMT flair of course.. People would run Kirins and sky farm with them.. Incredibly efficient. They'd also give a sweet discount on items if you helped them farm. Was fun!

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Your server must be "special" <3

and btw, by "combating" gil sellers, SE banned over 14 thousand accounts one year, 30% of which was innocent players ;) get your facts checked , google is your frienked!

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Originally Posted by Eaves12

Your server must be "special" <3

and btw, by "combating" gil sellers, SE banned over 14 thousand accounts one year, 30% of which was innocent players ;) get your facts checked , google is your frienked!

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What do I care about the facts? SE did something about the RMT - they were gone. As for the "innocents" that got banned in the process, how many were actually innocent? Gil buying was a big thing in XI.

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Originally Posted by Battlewrench

Banned? Or suspended for investigation? How many are actually innocent too..

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Exactly, the "30% of innocent people" probably weren't so innocent.

Deleted my post lol realized I read it wrong and that it was redundant.

Also, this!
http://i.imgur.com/2ev1zAS.png