Motivate Square Enix to deal with bots & spammers ?

[Tiggy]

Seriously they have the STF (Special Task Force) on the job. They've already banned some people. You are asking for them to do something that they are already doing.

[silverhope]

Seriously they have the STF (Special Task Force) on the job. They've already banned some people. You are asking for them to do something that they are already doing.

there not fixing the problem there dealing with them as they show up.. They need to fix the source like Tase offered great ideas.

[Tiggy]

there not fixing the problem there dealing with them as they show up.. They need to fix the source like Tase offered great ideas.

Most of those solutions wouldn't work for various reasons. They would mostly have unintended side effects that would effect valid players or are overbroad in their assumptions. Square did an amazing job cracking down on RMT in FFXI. Let them do what they have already prooved in the past that they can do.

[Beezilbub]

Seriously they have the STF (Special Task Force) on the job. They've already banned some people. You are asking for them to do something that they are already doing.

Since every single hour of every single day in the cities there is a wall of text in the chatbox advertising gill spammer sites, I'd say that the STF isn't really doing much. I've basically had to turn off shouts because of it. I'm nearing 100 people on my blacklist and every single one is a gill spammer. How many of those have been banned? Three or four. The STF isn't doing their job or they aren't given the tools they need to do their job. It's just rediculous how the gil spammers run free, unchecked. Whatever the STF is doing it's ridiculously ineffective.

[Tiggy]

Since every single hour of every single day in the cities there is a wall of text in the chatbox advertising gill spammer sites, I'd say that the STF isn't really doing much. I've basically had to turn off shouts because of it. I'm nearing 100 people on my blacklist and every single one is a gill spammer. How many of those have been banned? Three or four. The STF isn't doing their job or they aren't given the tools they need to do their job. It's just rediculous how the gil spammers run free, unchecked. Whatever the STF is doing it's ridiculously ineffective.

How many of those people on your blacklist are players that had their accounts hacked and have since had their account restored? You could have legit players on your blacklist now.

[Beezilbub]

I'm sure some of them are, but I have no way to tell if that's the case or not.

[Bruiser_Cruiser]

Seriously they have the STF (Special Task Force) on the job. They've already banned some people. You are asking for them to do something that they are already doing.

Devs already told us that due to the special task force dealing with RMT spammers that they are low on resources to work on the botting issue. THIS MAKES NO SENSE. I mean HELLO SE, the bots are the ones making the gold to sell RMT. Along with them hacking other peoples account. I just wish SE would stop acting like these are 2 separate issues when obviously they are tired together pretty closely. +1 to OP

[DeceptionsWrath]

While i disagree with some people that the spamming has decreased, i do agree with a few others that the buyers are the real problem. Ban the buyers and the RMT threat will deminish. If there was no market for people to sell gil then they certainly wouldn't be selling it. Buyers should be a main focus this time around. When i played FFXI like 4 years ago, the RMT issue was still bad. And i knew of alot of buyers that never once got even a temp. ban for such an act. Most will not want to start over if they're banned, and if they do, they'll be less likely to buy gil again in the future.

[Twoswords]

Seriously they have the STF (Special Task Force) on the job. They've already banned some people. You are asking for them to do something that they are already doing.

Then either they aren't doing a good job or their resources are severly limited, Ninja ***** along with several others on my server have been spamming Ul'dah for the past week without any action being taken.

I'm very close to simply removing the channel from my chat bar, which I really don't want to do, but having to constantly add the same people on two different characters is annoying, not sure why the blacklist isn't account wide.