RMTs killed Tell chat channel

[Elim]

Feels like a Free to play game doesn't it? The amount of rmt spam you get and the terrible system of blocking them.

Actually, the last F2P game I played(SWTOR) had a much better spam blocking system. lol.

@the thread in general: if you don't get constantly bombed with spam it doesn't mean people on other servers don't. Two seconds after I log in I always get a spam tell, then continue to get them every ten or so minutes apart unless I'm in an instance.

[Syhrwyb]

What really bothered me a couple days ago is that it seems like they're back to using shout/yell with the random name generator. I saw a femroe spamming in shout and yell and it only bugged me since our names were in the same fashion. :S

[Grizzlebeard]

The inability to send tells to people in duties etc is what killed tells for me. It's a ludicrous hand-holding measure that needs to go.

[Laraul]

I would make a "Spammer's List" that you could add a spammer. It would be erased when the player logs out of the game or quits. It would be independent of the blacklist. Since by the time the player logs out, the spammer has either been taken down or committed hari-kari.

Some of the suggestions I've seen are a bit too draconian for my taste.

[Laraul]

And now they are slowly killing Shout/Yell channel. Come on SE. Do something!

They did something!

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...95a656e7ee5da0

[JemC]

You guys keep saying "do something" but without telling them what to do you're going to find out what they try will probably restrict players more than RMT trade. I'm still with developing a means to track when one player ends up on more than 500 peep's blacklists in less than an hour. Then banning and IP blocking that person.

[Docj]

They did something!

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...95a656e7ee5da0

Yep that's all they ever do, ban characters once in a while. This is nothing but lipstick on a pig. Banning those characters does nothing to help. The RMT are on to different characters and trial accounts before that ban hammer ever comes down.

We need a whitelist that we can turn on/off. People have resorted to filtering all /t. Personally I wish I could filter everyone but my friends from sending /t (hence: whitelist).

[Amnesia]

Q: Why can't they implement limits on number of /t a player can send per minute?

You forgot about limits on the number of different players a person call /tell per minute.

Seems like SE could do simple things that would make things 10 or 20 times more expensive for RMTs while not affecting real players at all.

The goal is not to make is so that RMTs can't see a profit from spamming us---the goal is to make it so that they are better off spending their resources on another game instead.

[MeiUshu]

[QUOTE=Razzle;2111294]Instance dungeons killed /tell channel XP

Honestly been playing since launch and I don't get what the big deal is... I get 3 /tells top a day max, i just blocklist them and move along... Not saying it should stay but I won't disable /tell for it... I'd like to think that SE do their best to remove RMT, but the RMT is too "powerful"... But who knows... Maybe they need to try harder...

I have much bigger problem not being able to send /tells in many cases in game but that's a different thread XP[/QUOTE

and when you reach 200 names which means your black list is full ? what is that you are going to do ? unblock and start again ? what is the point in blocking them if it is to unblock them ?

I am curious really.. I have this case informed the higher instances that I have that in the my black list and to take care of those.. No answer so far whatsoever....I have said it in this forum and filed a support. On the Forum, just cancel some of the names you have in the black list and add new, but the old a re still there though

So in the end useless....

Mei

[Tiggy]

Ridiculous premise. RMT didn't kill the tell channel. Players did by just removing the channel and ignoring it instead of blacklisting people. I get 1-2 tells from RMT a week max. If I were ignoring the tell channel at this point it is on me and not them.

and when you reach 200 names which means your black list is full ? what is that you are going to do ? unblock and start again ? what is the point in blocking them if it is to unblock them ?

Yes, that is exactly what you should be doing. From time to time you may notice a user that says "DELETED" and I assume you delete that person thinking to yourself "wow there are only that many that were banned?? Come on Square!" but you would be mistaken. DELETED characters are characters that no longer exist. As in a user went to the character screen and deleted it. You have absolutely no indicators on that screen to specify if a user is actually banned or not. So, if you have a full 200 person black list there is a very very good chance that over 75% of them are already banned and could be removed to no detriment. I personally have no more than 30 people on mine.