RMT Advertisers are ruining the game for me and many others.

[NoDRG]

Being able to play awhile during this free login period(by the way, surprised i can sign in and use the forums while not a paying sub.)I have to say I am utterly disappointed with the infestation of RMT and botters.
How do you justify paying money to play a game where there is so much blatant cheating and RMT activities going on? SE literally does not care enough to do anything as long as you paying players keep giving them money mindlessly. Why should they really? I have nothing left to say on the matter since I have nothing invested in FFXIV at the moment. But the ever popular and slightly over used saying "Vote with your wallet." springs to mind.

[Shyluv]

Maybe also monitor areas where they show up a lot.



They have been there all day. And it's not the first time I've seen RMT/bots hanging out there.

[Dravion]

Maybe also monitor areas where they show up a lot.



They have been there all day. And it's not the first time I've seen RMT/bots hanging out there.

More than ever that track needs a train.

[Tiggy]

We used to get them, don't get me wrong, but there were far less back before the free trial.

So uninformed. So sad. Trial users can't send tells. The trial literally has nothing to do with it.

[Agrios]

Don't get me wrong, I dislike the RMT but does it REALLY get to some of you to the point of wanting to unsub? I find it really easy to block and ignore. Maybe I'm lucky for being able to ignore the RMT and continue enjoying the game. I would just like to say to look at the positive things in the game and I hope that they are more of a pro vs the cons of RMT interrupting your game play.

[Kinkoz]

The RMT advertisers have gotten increasingly obnoxious lately, what with the fact that they now send Friend Requests alongside spamming you with Tells, but I really don't think it's an issue so severe that it warrants unsubscribing. Learn to ignore that stuff, or set yourself on Busy so you won't get pestered.

That being said, I think the institution of a larger blacklist would be helpful along with a function where it automatically removes characters who have been deleted from the server. Saves me the trouble of having to occasionally comb through the list just to manually remove deleted characters whenever my list's hitting its limit.

[Landonian]

/busy

/10char

[Avenger]

They have been there all day. And it's not the first time I've seen RMT/bots hanging out there.

Even though this is presumably on a different server, it's eerily familiar, right down to the character names. Though presumably those would be farmbots rather than spambots.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

I'd hate to say it, but roulette is ruining the game far worse than any RMT could ever hope to. When your runs consist of nothing but daily AK, you kinda get fed up and demotivated to do anything else.

[tocsin]

...sigh.... this thread again.

I can understand your pain, especially being from jenova. It is pretty well known that Jenova has more spam bots than almost every other server in the game, mainly because we have one of the highest ratios of console players to PC players in the game, and RMT generally targets console gamers, who are, on average, poorer in-game than pc gamers.

That said, all of these suggestions have been suggested literally hundreds of times, and have all been beaten with a dead horse until they are no more than a pile of horse-hair covered slime.

1. removing previous messages from the logs? why? I only would care about preventing future ones.

2. This is the only point you have that I can agree on.

3. why are you even blacklisting them. new rmt spam bots get created on average every 4 seconds. only 1/40 of them ever get around to sending someone a second tell in their lifetimes. all you are doing by blacklisting is creating work for yourself, and not hindering the bots in the least.

X. unless you make heavy, heavy punishments for abusing the system, this system is extremely exploitable. and if the punishment is too heavy, people wont hit the trigger, for fear of a misunderstanding.

Y. just... what? free trials have nothing to do with rmt, especially since free trial accounts cant really do anything.