RMT are now advertising crystal/shards - Shards need changed

[Sadaharu]

Yeah sometimes they have really weird names and othertimes i'm too busy to have to open a blacklist, memorize the complete gibberish these guys PUT in their names, and type said gibberish into blacklist. If im getting spammed by tells i obviously have to take the time to do that, but if Square Enix would simply add an option to right click -> blacklist i wouldn't be experiencing this problem.

Its not hard to blacklist these keyboard smashed RMT names. I even have a macro to do it. If you get a /tell, /blist add <r> will blist the last person to /tell you.
/shout spammers? Right click their name -> Send Tell, and change the /tell to /blist add.

[Leknaat]

There's actually situations where the blist filter gets overwhelmed and the shout/tell gets through because they're spamming it so fast.

[Welsper59]

And how large is this "Special Task Force"? It's been weeks and I still see the same old people spamming my /tell and /shout. My blacklist is getting larger by the day.

That there-in lies the problem too. It's great that SE is taking action on the accounts, but the speed is really the main thing here. If RMT can make the sale and transfer of goods for RL profit before a handful of accounts get deleted (which isn't going to take more than a day to complete said transaction), then there's lasting reason for them to just keep coming back. Measures need to be taken to stop them immediately, in order to discourage involvement of such activities. I do fully realize that immediate measures is not a realistic possibility, and that's where we end up in a losing state to RMT.

From the viewpoint of RMT, if I were to try to make any financial gain IRL from RMT activity that offsets game purchase costs, you'd be damn sure it'd be worthwhile to continue doing. Now throwing in the frequent hacked accounts, that time spent profiting is just all the more alluring. If however my activities were stopped before sales could be made/completed, then the only worthwhile action is to rely on hacked accounts. Which isn't that reliable to begin with.

[worldofneil]

In ffxi the only way to get crystals was off Elementals (Sprites) that spawned in various places under certain weather conditions and every crafter needed 1 crystal per synth just like this game...

Erm, sorry to correct you, but it was way easier than that. All you had to do was have signet/sanction on you and then crystals would drop from *any* defeated enemies. It was made even easier by being able to buy Signet Staffs so you could get signet at any time if you forgot to get it and then you could just carry on doing whatever you wanted and getting crystals was a by product you didn't even have to think about

[Maku]

FFXI Crystal Farming = Sky where all elementals are up all the time.

Plus, everyone who had signet/sanction got a crystal or crystals for killing mobs. The AH was usually bursting with them. I just got lvl 20 Botanist and can use an AMAZING 400 GP to get three shards per swing. 400 freakn GP. You know how long that takes to regen? FFXI Crystal Farming was far FAR easier.

[Panthur]

I really miss signet, sanction, sigil, whatever era the buff from guards were issued. That would help a lot too if we could get some kinda gaurd buff similar.

[Phogg]

Greetings,

The Special Task Force is not only combating RMT solicitation, but they're also taking action against users who use teleport cheats to gather and battle over and over. The team has been looking over every report submitted and taking action against users found to be involved in RMT activity, so we greatly appreciate you continued efforts in reporting these players.

Thanks for the laugh Camate. Myself and the telehack bot 4 other people and I reported over 24 hours ago with no action taken got a good giggle. I personally without cheating can get around 500-600 shards per hour. So Im sure a bot can beat that but even if not, they will have farmed about 12,000 shards in that time and still going strong for who knows how long.

[Mireille]

I saw a dev comment that RMT activities are being responded to with a permanent ban, but the same report also mentioned that many such account were in fact real player accounts that had been hacked. Are you perma-banning legitimate players whose accounts are hacked and then used to spam rmt ads? I understand that password protection is a user responsibility, but banning someone who had the misfortune to have their account hacked seems to me to be pretty unfair.

[CielWulfe]

At the very least, give us the ability to right click on a name and add it straight to the blacklist. As I type this there are at least THREE gilsellers shoutspamming the hell out of Ul'dah - Steps of Thal on Hyperion. Something needs to be done faster about this problem, because it's only getting worse instead of better. There are so many new names added to the RMT list on a daily basis that sending reports gets tedious and time-consuming. Some people have given up reporting them at all for this very reason and have resorted to simply blacklisting them and moving on.

[Meimei]

Man... Ever played FFXI? In ffxi the only way to get crystals was off Elementals (Sprites) that spawned in various places under certain weather conditions and every crafter needed 1 crystal per synth just like this game...

Have *you* ever played FFXI? I quit about two years ago and even I remember that EVERY ENEMY IN THE GAME dropped crystals as long as you had Signet/Sanction/whatever up.

In this game, only Miner and Botanist get crystals. It doesn't compare.