Why can't we have the same anti-spam feature that WoW has?

[SeekerScorpio]

I know that this statement is false for during the time I played. I can't say if WoW has this implemented now, but if it does then they did it for another reason because stopping low lvl chars from whispering wasn't necessary to stop RMT spam during the time I played.

they implemented this during early cataclysm... they may have taken it out when the whole panda expansion came out, but definitely was the case then, was trying to whisper friends while starting on twinks.... yeah nope. It got to the point where a lot of them were botting to 10 and took the same path route. Hell I remember making a character in northshire (starting human location) and seeing them take the exact path all the time to level... it was funny see a good amount vanish after the 1st or 2nd quest.

[Sacred-Oblivion]

they implemented this during early cataclysm... they may have taken it out when the whole panda expansion came out, but definitely was the case then, was trying to whisper friends while starting on twinks.... yeah nope. It got to the point where a lot of them were botting to 10 and took the same path route. Hell I remember making a character in northshire (starting human location) and seeing them take the exact path all the time to level... it was funny see a good amount vanish after the 1st or 2nd quest.

Are you sure you weren't playing on a Free Trial account at that time? The trial accounts have certain limitations, and iirc the inability to send tells is one of them.

[DragonFlyy]

I'm getting tells every 20-30 minutes. Sometimes less or more frequent than that. And WoW does not have the RMT spam problem that FF14 has. On WoW I'd get spammed maybe once a month, and then when you compare that to how often we get spammed on here... Why would you be content with the way things are?

There is a practical solution to this problem. It's not just a never-ending nuisance that we have to put up with.

Once a month on WoW? You must've played on a dead server. Most servers it's about the same as here. 20-30 minutes. The only difference was WoW blocked the account from spam (until you logged out) instead of ignoring the player. Also in WoW, you have flying dead player advertising like a giant undead billboard, plus /say all the time.

[Nikita]

I'm still patiently waiting for addons, in WoW one of my favorites was BadBoy which filtered all RMT tells from your log and automatically reported them.

[DragonFlyy]

I'm still patiently waiting for addons, in WoW one of my favorites was BadBoy which filtered all RMT tells from your log and automatically reported them.

Sadly from what I have heard (all rumor of course) is that addons in FFXIV might just be interfacing skinning.

[MurakumoMillennium]

Yeah WoWs system to stop spam was pretty amazing. Very very rarely did I ever get a whisper of any kind, and I played on Stormrage US (alliance) which is like top 5 for largest servers the game has out of hundreds.

[Synapse]

If you want WoW features. Go back to WoW.

*oh sorry, was trying to be like one of those people that say go back to FFXI for suggesting FFXI features *


Not a bad Idea.

[Nikita]

Sadly from what I have heard (all rumor of course) is that addons in FFXIV might just be interfacing skinning.

All I've really heard about addon implementation was the following:

Sonomaa (BG): In the 2.0 PDFs, addons were highlighted as something you want to see happen. Tanaka said the same about addons early in XIV's development but we never saw anything come out from it. Will you be releasing a developer kit to help create new addons for the game and show you're fully supported in evaluating and balancing addons? I know one of the most asked ones is a parser for people who like to min/max their damage, and just customizing the screen to look more like what players want.

Square-Enix: Rather than XML or LUA, like World of Warcraft is using, we're thinking of provide this in Flash simply to make it more visual. We'll be preparing a dev kit and providing that with help for the players. Once we get closer to the release of the dev kit (before it's even released), we will talk to the community and show what we have planned to put in it - UI engine, what we're providing - and then we can get feedback. So you could say, "This is not going to be enough, we need this," so we can get that feedback and get as close to what the community wants as possible.

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[Gerolan]

I honestly don't know why this was not implemented at launch, let alone being discussed as might happen in the future
It shouldn't be up to a player to routinely edit their blacklist to clear out old rmt to add new ones,
I've never known any mmo that makes it such a convoluted process to report someone for illegal activities

[Seschat]

That's it. The report spam feature delivered all the information the GMs needed to investigate the matter. And if at least 5 people reported someone for spam, then that person was prevented from using the chat stream on every character until an investigation happened.

This part we would want to be very careful with, and consider being a lot more lenient with. I've seen it on other MMOs where groups would simply decide they don't like what another player is saying in regional/party/global chat, and coordinate to get them silenced, just because they can. Stopping RMT is good. Enabling bullying is bad.