RMT spam fixes need to happen sooner then later

[Beeraga]

Logged in, stepped out of the Inn and had to struggle to blist 4 more today. Should I just assume this is how the game will greet me each day SE?

[OMEGAlomania]

I can't believe they are ignoring this. What the hell SE? Along with the AoE lag this is the most frustraiting thing about the game. I'm adding at least 6 a day, EVERY day. And it's only getting worse. Do we even have GMs? Because i'm yet to hear word of one coming in with the ban hammer.

[Aalwein]

Yoshi has posted they are actively addressing the issue (I think in one of his general forums posts) yet I have seen nothing to imply they are doing anything about it. Like everyone else, I get not just one or two spams, but a constant stream of spam in /shout. Constant. Like literally the chat flow so fast I can't even scroll up into history to before I entered the city zone. And to make matters worse, the spammers are starting to infiltrate out-lying areas and even high level zones.

And SE's method for fighting mail spam is to force us to friend every person we want to send mail to? What?! Instead of fixing the issue they punish the players with a heavy handed tactic. Awesome.

Blows my mind that SE can't implement the same chat spam filters that other games have been using for years - and that most of us have been using in our own real-life email apps for forever. Sure seems like SE just doesn't care, and that's really not an attitude this company wants to be exuding right now.

[UltimaRose]

Not only is the gold seller spam an issue. Hacks and bots are increasing at alarming rates as well. Speed hack, teleport hack, and several characters following around one character. Just the ones I've seen on my travels.

With Square-Enix not taking action early, it sets the tone and gives these morons more reason to spam and hack. Also, the amount of hacked accounts I've seen concerns me. Makes me question the security measures taken by the company. Allowing this cancer to spread will ultimately kill the game.

[Ninjaii]

Yoshi has posted they are actively addressing the issue (I think in one of his general forums posts) yet I have seen nothing to imply they are doing anything about it..

This has been a problem since before ppl were exploiting AK/Wp. I refused to be in parties that were doing the exploit since Yoshi-P said repeatedly "mobs wont rubberband in dungeons in ARR", but yet they have already patched that out, and even a 2nd adjustment where ppl were exploiting Titan. This is a much more serious issue and they havent done a damn thing. I wouldn't even do exploits like that, I invited people to party with me when i was farming because there weren't enough mobs and it was better to let the items round robin than to fight each other. And yet I'm supposedly a ????ing cheater cause SE allowed my account to be stolen while I was asleep.

[Ninjaii]

i also like how SE deceptively states "Once login has been restricted, an email notification will be sent to the primary email address registered to the Square Enix account." leaving out the part where they will not send any e-mail out until 2 business days after your account is suspended and even then that e-mail is pointless and you have to wait a minimum of 7 more business days after that to retrieve your account.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

It's not that hard: place a button which does these action (on right click on chat name):
1) Automatically blacklist the character
2) Report it automatically for RMT (no form to compile, just auto)

After, 100 reports, automute and messageto gm

That's all.
And by the way 100 reports are enough for autoban =)

[Ninjaii]

It's not that hard: place a button which does these action (on right click on chat name):
1) Automatically blacklist the character
2) Report it automatically for RMT (no form to compile, just auto)

After, 100 reports, automute and messageto gm

That's all.
And by the way 100 reports are enough for autoban =)

Cheers for the lame duck comment from a troll

Completely doesn't fix anything about the issue, please move along to a thread that is already infested with trolls...

It is something they could of implemented if you ignore the real problems:

#1 you can only blacklist up to 200 characters and GMs arent doing anything even when they send a ticket reply lying they already have.
#2 a majority of these accounts are legitimate accounts currently stolen, and SE doesn't even know how their account information has been stolen
#3 They already have a chat screen in FFXi that they moronically didnt implement in this game
#4 They already had a auto-block on accounts where an invalid IP was used to log-in in 1.0 and up through a recent patch, but then the morons removed it
#5 Your blacklist is only local to the client, if you change PC/PS3 u have to do the damn thing all over again and you're really only banning legitimate accounts that did nothing wrong. The wrong-doing is where SE compromised the accounts and they don't even know how it happened.
#6 Malicious players could use that system reversely to intentionally ban legitimate accounts who aren't doing anything at all and aren't even compromised.

[Dahkoht]

Pretty much amateur hour on their part to not have right click ignore built into the game to begin with.

[Ordain]

For all of you saying nothing has or is being done. Then turn your eyes to this post/

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-%28Sep.-12%29

They also seemed to add a shout filter, but they RMTs just re-wrote their scripts. So they are trying to fix the situation. You can't act like other mmos don't have this issue to a degree.