GIL Sellers Are on The Rise

[Soraphet]

This is a company that won't let us send or receive tells while bound by duty because ... people might be mean to each other???? FF14 is an utter nanny state, and SE is like that kid in daycare that will only share their toys if you play with them the "right way" otherwise they'll take it away and show you how to play with it.

I thought not being able to send tells while bound by duty because you're there to finish the dungeon/duty, not talk to your friends and get distracted. I certainly feel better knowing the tank and healer in the Bowl of Embers aren't chatting up their friends instead of finishing the dungeon.

[Kyri]

Problem > Snip

^ this. As mentioned in my last post every linkshell, every zone shout was telling people last night blacklist and report "player Name" for RMT, some waited to see the tell to make sure but I know I heard at least 70 people in ls and sh and say say they were reporting, so why was this person still causing ruckus hours later? It was the same person, not banned/suspended and a new one approached, it was always the same person

[Voqar]

Reporting and blacklisting sellers is neato and all, but sellers aren't pushers - they can't force people to buy. Suppply and demand. They exist because people want to buy gil/gold.

One big reason why this occurs is because companies fail to punish the cheaters (buyers). Losers are more inclined to cheat when they feel like they can easily get away with it and there's no risk.

The real solution to gil spamming is to kill demand. You do this by crushing cheating losers who buy game currency. Ban them for a week or two for the first offense to show you're serious. Delete their entire account for any repeat offenses. If you show a zero tolerance, and people know there's a risk to being a complete and utter piece of cheating human trash, then they'll be less likely to cheat.

Cut down the demand for gil, and there'll be less reason for RMT to attempt to sell in your game.

In a game with a box and a sub wiping out the seller accounts helps too. Cutting down on the number of morons that deal with shady companies and get their accounts compromised and used AS more spammers, along with cutting down on lame customer service tickets about getting accounts restored (from cheaters who end up getting hacked due to their own lame behavior dealing with RMT) is a good thing too.


This game has some design elements that help curb RMT scumbaggery. For ex, the fact that mounts, normally a big ticket item that cheaters would buy gold to deal with, are obtained with seals - something you must earn by playing - is a good thing.

As much as I enjoy player economy it's one of the things that drives human trash to cheat. All those high priced goodies that can give you an advantage or shortcut the game (buy mats rather than gather them, for ex) are exactly the things cheaters want and will RMT to obtain. Sometimes I think making in-game currency totally trivial and doing more loot as bind-only earned from dungeons or seal-based types of systems is the only way to deal with the problem of cheating losers.

[Eekiki]

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.

No offense, but I believe you and all the people agreeing with you are vastly underestimating just how stupid a person can be.

And do you think a person who is dumb enough to do something like that is going to be smart enough to know how to undo it? Nope, they'll be right here on the forums "I BLISTED MY FREND KNOW I KANT TLAK 2 THM I QUIT THIS GAM IS FAYL".

[Midgette]

My biggest objection to the Gil Sellers is the fact that they are spamming the chat area to such a degree that other things that are far more useful are being missed (ie looking for). I wish the chat itself was a little less archaic in design. Things that make it easy to change venues, add friends, black list and ways to filter "spam" would be great.

[JPPILIP]

My biggest objection to the Gil Sellers is the fact that they are spamming the chat area to such a degree that other things that are far more useful are being missed (ie looking for). I wish the chat itself was a little less archaic in design. Things that make it easy to change venues, add friends, black list and ways to filter "spam" would be great.

That and how gil sellers/buyers destroy in game economies when you see even the most miniscule crafting ingredients selling for thousands of dollars then thats when all the people saying they aren't that bad will start crying.

[CrisGer]

SE is working hard to help with these issues. Patience and courtesy will help us all weather things until they can be fixed. I suggest making suggestions to SE rather than ranting here. Always a better choice and nicer for all of us. Have a fun day and enjoy the game.

[eschaton]

There is RMT spam on almost every /shout channel.

By different accounts / sellers.

It really degrades the game. Please do something.

Image blurred for obvious reasons.

[Eekiki]

the rmt I have seen haven't had names like fjnsiojml sjlmds yet.

I've seen one with a name like that, but that's 'cause the account they hacked belonged to a Roegadyn. *badum tssss*

[InVizO]

Thanks SE for listening...... not.

Gil sellers are now a daily problem for every1 and its clear no one from SE saw this thread when it was made, or cared.