RMT Out of hand

[Amenian]

Honestly I get maybe four tells from RMT in a three hour period, [...]I can also say with certainty this is the lowest amount of RMT I have ever had to deal with [...]

I don't get how, with all the threads we've already had on this, that people still don't understand that high pop servers like Hyperion aren't going to have the same problems with RMT that low pop servers will have. Hyperion is often closed for character creation. No character creation = no new RMT spam. I thought this was already covered.

[Seig345]

I gotta admit the friend request thing baffles me... I would figure their goal was to advertise as widely as possible, but this is like insulting someone and then asking them to buy your wares. It's more like griefing than gilselling...

[Noshpan]

...should have already implemented a right click/square to report RMT that logs the relevant info on said character...

I would kill for this feature, as well, at the very least, a temporary "muting" of the offending RMT that lasts as long as I am logged onto the character that made the report. WoW has a similar feature and it does make things convenient. As it is, it oft takes me awhile to be able to report the offending RMT spammer after blocking them.

By the time I'm done reporting these guys, they've already deleted their characters, anyway. -_- I may be simple-minded, but why can't these gold-selling websites be shut down? Seriously. It would make so many people HAPPY.

Most likely because they're hosted in countries outside the legal jurisdiction of Japan and the US.

[SCUBA_Instr]

Hi Wobble,

So this needs a new thread daily?

Yes, absolutely, in the hopes that a website moderator
will take the issue to the Square Enix Holdings board of directors.

[SCUBA_Instr]

Hi Amenian,
It's impossible to understand Wobble's opposition [to keeping the issue going
(via frequent message threads)]. What we post here, to express our opposition to
RMT harassment, is insignificant compared to the volume of spam harassment
messages received in the chat box. RMT criminals clearly enjoy the upper hand, in
terms of harassment volume delivered to real players.

According to a "bad-guy" website (for which I will not provide the URL or search arguments), there is a spambot software running, against the gaming
industry, (unknown which games)that sends over 2000 spams per second.

The few complaints, here on this message board, of a drop in the bucket compared
to the amount of vindictive harassment conveyed by RMT spambots.

[RyuDragnier]

Why haven't they adjusted it so the blacklist is blocking accounts yet? That alone would fix the majority of the problems, since most of the RMTers are on the same account. Blocking an entire account from your blacklist would make it infinitely easier to shut them down.

[Kyri]

Wait rmt are sending you friend requests? Wow I was gonna say Idk why people are so upset i might get one, maybe two tells in a day ignore and they don't actually bother me at all.(this while being logged on almost all day everyday) perhaps its the server? On Balmung like i said i might see 2 rmt tells a day and it doesn't really bother me, I just ignore them.

That being said though im blown away at what you guys are saying about the less populated servers, I could understand where that would be quite stressful for you and I hope something is looked at to prevent that

[Sandoria]

Why haven't they adjusted it so the blacklist is blocking accounts yet? That alone would fix the majority of the problems, since most of the RMTers are on the same account. Blocking an entire account from your blacklist would make it infinitely easier to shut them down.

So much this!

Wait rmt are sending you friend requests? Wow I was gonna say Idk why people are so upset i might get one, maybe two tells in a day ignore and they don't actually bother me at all.(this while being logged on almost all day everyday) perhaps its the server? On Balmung like i said i might see 2 rmt tells a day and it doesn't really bother me, I just ignore them.

I wish all our servers were like that but Balmung is locked for character creation almost 24/7. They can't make new characters to spam people. On Faerie and other smaller servers it's a total nightmare. Ignoring them does no good because they make a character, spam the world, delete and remake all day long. By the time you blacklist them, they've made a new character to hit the world again. If I don't have /busy up, I'll get a tell every 2 minutes or less. Because I like talking to people and making friends I don't want to have to filter tells or keep /busy up. I've thought about giving up my main and just playing on Balmung because of this but there has to be a better answer.

[SCUBA_Instr]

Hi RyuDragnier,

Why haven't they adjusted it so the blacklist is blocking accounts yet? That alone would fix the majority of the problems, since most of the RMTers are on the same account. Blocking an entire account from your blacklist would make it infinitely easier to shut them down.

I wrote a full functional description on how to do this (minus the Lua code), and how to implement a global
blacklist. I posted it to a non-Square Enix FFXIV website. I was immediately "shot down" and flamed
by a RMT spammer sympathizer, who argued that such changes would "break the Lua source code and
crash the networks."

[Wobble]

Hi Wobble,

Yes, absolutely, in the hopes that a website moderator
will take the issue to the Square Enix Holdings board of directors.

SE already knows it's any issue and just because a moderator or DEV doesn't answer doesn't mean they have not seen the millions already posted. I myself just block the first one I get if I get one and go /busy for an hour or so and that's the end of it. Also as someone here said even when SE makes filters the RMT just adapt and work around them. Now I wouldn't mind having an option to click and repot like we have with the blacklist, but I don't really see what they can do any different than they already are to slow/stop/fix this anymore than they have.