Losing the RMT spam war SE?

[Razzle]

i get spammed with tons of RMT I stopped black listing them. They just make a new char and respam me 10 seconds after...

Hate you'all who buy from RMT

I wish SE banned any player who make deals with them permanently, but they probably dont want to lose that potential sub... Sigh

[Lilyarel]

*snip*

Heres the problem; you cant cure stupid. Its like keeping your child from crawling off a cliff. So the best thing you can do is prevent it.

[Kuurei]

Hate to say it, but I think there are the some ideas from other games that would work fairly swimmingly if SE actually wants to get rid of Gil Sellers.

EQ2 has a setup where it filters Tells that constitute as spam, I dunno the full elaboration of this feature, but in conjunction with the Mail and Broker restrictions on free accounts they have literally abolished Plat Sellers.

Rift also has mysteriously lost a significant amount of their currency sellers; owing partly to the implementation of REX as well as a severe crackdown on...Mailing and Broker services!

You get where I'm going with this, correct?

Two things can be done to prevent it far more readily since Bans/Deletions don't seem to be doing much at all. We need to make it significantly more costly for RMT to operate on our servers.

--Require finishing the Level 20 Main Scenario quest to use the Marketboard, Trade only allowed with Friends or Free Company members until that point as well.
--Accounts flagged via player report for tell spam or suspicious activity (I.E. these weird 99 stacks of Tin Ores/Bat Wings for 1 gil apiece on broker) will have Mail, Marketboard, and /tell functions disabled pending an investigation.

This would more effectively cripple the RMT because it would make the players more obvious. The second one might require some player policing, but it is still more useful than how we're going about it now -- people can't report fast enough to counteract the remake-and-spam again tactics of the RMTers. Just an idea though.

[Failia]

[Zohar_Lahar]

We are not asking for a miracle and SE to suddenly ban 100% of spam bots within 0.5 seconds, all we want is some control over OUR chat box. Simple filters would work

Allow tells from linked people (FC/LS's)
Allow tells from friends list (friends list...)
Allow tells from level 10 or below characters

Simple filters like that, on by default so you can receive tells from everyone, or, you can block /tells from people you don't know or have no connection to.

The best solution I found that's available is to shut off the /tell channel. The game became much better without it.

[CrystalRainbow]

Here on Balmung I have no clue what you are talking about.

[Noshpan]

Remember, the only reason we still have this issue is because there are people too lazy, too apathetic, too selfish to give a crap and willingly buy in-game currencies from RMT service providers.

Ever since launch I have suggested that the team implement a reporting feature similar to what WoW has: right click the offender's name (maybe have options such as report for spam, report for harassment violations), select "Report Spam" and it not only takes a "screen shot" and sends it off in the report, but it also flags the account for investigation and mutes the reported character for as long as you are logged onto the character that you made the report with. This not only clears up our blacklists & helps us customers retain some sense of sanity.

I also think that the team should become harsher when dealing with those who buy from RMT service providers. These people are the only reason why EVERY SINGLE MMO STILL HAS RMT SPAM TO THIS DAY. They should be banned, and I know that some do. And those of us, whom are victims of RMT users, the worst that we would get would have the illicit gil (that we unknowingly gained from an RMT buyer) would have that gil confiscated. Sure, it sucks to lose it, but it's better than being banned. The lesser of the two evils, you could say.

[Lexxuk]

The best solution I found that's available is to shut off the /tell channel. The game became much better without it.

I have done, but I'm a 4 star crafter. When my friends want something crafted, they can't send me a /tell because I'm /busy. When I go into dungeons, I can't say I'm ready on the ready check. Going /busy is a terrible solution in a social game, I've missed talking to friends who only come on for a short while because I'm /busy and they can't say "hey there". It is however the only "solution" SE have given us, and until SE give us a proper solution, we're going to get more spam tells and from more companies.

[Felis]

taking action ONCE PER WEEK is hugely ineffective. again... unless something changes, we will quite literally never see even a slightest decline in RMT activity.

Um, why do you think SE only takes action once a week? They report the action taken once a week, that is not the same thing as taking action once a week.

+1 for Kosmos

Here on Balmung I have no clue what you are talking about.

Same on Ragnarok

[Rahsch]

I don't know why but I'm getting RMT messages almost every minute and blacklist is full. I get constant spamming if I dont blist them right away and today they are starting to try and friend request me. Something needs to be done and I say I play this game everyday and it's getting worse.