Spam tells ruining the game

[Dontee]

I was enjoying this game (aside from having to blacklist often), now my list is full and I am constantly spammed.

Any options other than the poor one of "/busy", essentially taking the MMO out of MMORPG...

Fix or I'm gone, sadly.

[Eye_Gore]

Any options other than the poor one of "/busy", essentially taking the MMO out of MMORPG...

Turn you tell sound off if you want to and ignore it.

[Dontee]

but then I miss FC chat, and chat tells from friends and/or people wanting to legitimately talk to me.... right?

[Eye_Gore]

Not if you just turn the notification sound off, you'll still get tells you just wont hear when they come.

[Apricoth]

Has someone suggested to have a filter option to throw spam tells into it automatically? I know some mmorpgs out there have them. That would be nice to see that added in FFXIV. The wall of text, the amount of hearts and stars and their professing to be our friends would be a good starter for the system to automatically land those annoying tells to the spam tab.

[Caoihmin]

I think cracking down on the buyers is the solution. Permanent ban. Done. No buyers, no sellers.

[Aerowaffle]

There are plenty of solutions out there to help alleviate the RMT problem.

But we're getting absolutely no acknowledgement from SE beyond the ban sweep information.

[Linnaete]

Sadly, while SE remains as indifferent as they are when it comes to genuine action and while there are willing buyers out there, there isn't really an ideal "fix" for this, unless you were to migrate to a server that is free of it, namely the Japanese servers.

Though yes, it is absolutely galling to see the tells constantly appear (I swear they've been more and more frequent and ubiquitous than I remember) and now the sellers seem to be spamming zone chat as well. Still, it's not been so endemic that it's actually ruined my gaming experience. They're a plague, sure, but they're not quite the Black Death either. Then again, I do willingly keep my status to "busy" and have much of the socialising go on in the FC and LS channels.

[Elusana_Celah]

SE likes to encourage grinds in their games. Just gotta suck it up. When your blacklist gets full it's a grind just like leveling a job or farming relic. Gotta remove one person at a time going through all those lovely confirmation windows. The reward is to be able to blacklist the newly created gil seller bots who will just make new accounts and characters anyways and fill up your newly cleaned off blacklist in a day or two which means more grinding!

Please look forward to it!

[Delorean]

but then I miss FC chat, and chat tells from friends and/or people wanting to legitimately talk to me.... right?

i stopped using the tells window a long time ago

sometimes i wonder if a real person has actually tried to talk to me and that makes me a little sad, but whatever. when i was playing the game pretty frequently all the people i wanted to talk to were in my FC or Linkshells.