GIL Sellers Are on The Rise

[KariArisu]

Not going to lie, this is dumb beyond belief. You are literally saying players are too stupid to right click on someones name and add them to an ignore list without accidently ignoring their friends/innocent strangers.

It is justified, you've clearly never released a feature for anything to the masses.

The easiest solution is to have an "Okay/Cancel" box when you use this option.

[Lycanar]

My buddies are already receiving tells from gil sellers on day 1. Every1 do their part and report them asap. Hopefully SE will be on the ball with this one as they have stated before.

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Is there an easy way to report them? I have to copy/paste their names and manually add them to my /blist. I wish there was a way to just right click on their names and report them for spam, but if there is I do not know how.

[Nullo]

Not going to lie, this is dumb beyond belief. You are literally saying players are too stupid to right click on someones name and add them to an ignore list without accidently ignoring their friends/innocent strangers.

But some of us are that dumb. Honestly I know that I am. I have accidentally invited people when wanting to just examine them. I'm not saying, I'm just saying.

[WildSnipe]

I think its funny 90% of the servers are locked & about half the people fighting to get on are probably RMT's. While the chat thing is annoying the amount of people on the "I hate gil buyers train" is laughable. Heads up for the people who are new to FFXIV but never played FF11 (85% of FFXI players either buy gil, sell gil or do neither but don't care if others do) so don't be in shock if people aren't that hidden about it over Vent/TS/ w/e VoIP you use.

While you think it's funny, I find it abominable that you seem to either think it's ok, or just don't give damn. I'm not in shock that it's happening because it's the same in every MMO, not just FF:XI and FF:XIV. What does shock me is the game hasn't even been live for a week. Same thing happened in SWTOR, less than a week. I wouldn't mind it so much except they ruin the game community economy. People jack their prices up because they know some kid with a credit card will pay insane prices because they just bought their in game money from a website. That's probably the biggest reason I quit WoW. I did so much work trying to earn a flying mount and while other people just came in the game with a max level toon and flying around and wiping dungeon runs because they didn't have a clue how to play their role. Then later down the road when I decided to work a craft, I had to pay several gold to by materials only worth a few silver pieces. It got ridiculous.

[Hawklaser]

Not going to lie, this is dumb beyond belief. You are literally saying players are too stupid to right click on someones name and add them to an ignore list without accidently ignoring their friends/innocent strangers.

Never underestimate stupidity. You can add all the safeguards in the world to something, and someone somewhere will still manage to accidentally mess it up.

[Alhanelem]

Not going to lie, this is dumb beyond belief. You are literally saying players are too stupid to right click on someones name and add them to an ignore list without accidently ignoring their friends/innocent strangers.

It's not really dumb- they just need a confirmation message and it will be all fine. That's generally what you should do anytime there's a concern of "somebody might mess it up."

[Knives]

Yikes, Camate. Might blacklist the wrong guy? Well, if that's all, I would suggest giving us the ability to right click the name, which would bring up a mini-menu that has the option to send a tell, add to party, send friend request, or add to blacklist. The blacklist option could have a big confirmation message that displays the name of the person being blacklisted, and the cursor could even start on the "Cancel" button.

For gamepad users, moving the cursor to the name of the person and pressing Square (X on xbox-style controller) would bring up the same mini-menu. This idea would utilize the same mini-menu that is used when targeting someone and pressing Square(X) and as such, you should be able to blacklist through this method as well, complete with said confirmation pop-up to ensure fewer mistake-blacklistings.

[Becken]

I have yet to see one on Excalibur, perhaps 1 good thing about legacy servers

sadly they are there blocked about 7 so far

[Selyndria]

Definitely think that they need to crack down on this big time. One big thing that we have from the start that XI didn't have is a lot more bound gear. Gil selling destroyed the economy in XI. People selling items for many millions of Gil when there was no way to make that kind of money in a reasonable amount of time playing the game.

[rabbitzero]

It's not really dumb- they just need a confirmation message and it will be all fine. That's generally what you should do anytime there's a concern of "somebody might mess it up."

I had this problem in Neverwinter. They have a right click to report, and the chat was moving so fast you could have your mouse over the name to report and as soon as you click it was on a different name but you didn't see it quick enough, but clicked anyway. There was no confirmation box though, so... :\

It's interesting watching MMOs try and stop gold selling. It seems the harder it is to earn the gold for regular players, the more gold sellers. Just look at wow, it used to take forever to earn 40 gold for a mount, but now even for low levels it's easy, and in that time they starved the gold sellers. RMT will be huge here, i think, as once you finish the quests, there is terrible money making, and more spent than earn. 200 or so gil a leve, fate, dungeon run or whatever when a teleport costs twice that, not to mention repairs at 50?