Spam tells ruining the game

[silverhope]

/busy is your friend.. still get all FC, LS ,shout,yells if somone wants to talk to me they can always use /say.

[Eight]

No reason why we can't have a /tell option window where we can check off to receive tells from people on our friends list and FC only. It really has gotten out of hand, I switched servers a week ago and my list is 3/4 full already.

[Elusana_Celah]

No reason why we can't have a /tell option window where we can check off to receive tells from people on our friends list and FC only. It really has gotten out of hand, I switched servers a week ago and my list is 3/4 full already.

Would you enjoy having to decline hundreds of friends requests per day by gil sellers? :P

[Delorean]

could easily be circumvented by requiring players to be level 10 to send tells or friend requests

i really dont pay it much mind, it is one of the few gripes i have with the game

[Gillionaire]

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.

I think that is the issue ultimately..
I did some digging around on my server, I found a group of bots (4 BLM with 4 chocobos out) and I was able to find some hints linking them to actual players.. Posted a post about it and I was slapped with a half day ban on the forums and the post was deleted of course.. I understand that the ban probably resulted from breaking the forum rules posting people's names, But I didn't actually list any of the names, I just redirected people to the appropriate pictures that I have uploaded to imgur

Sad to see it, but that seems to be the general attitude.

[Discordia]

To be honest, SE has done a lot more in ARR than they had during 1.0 I cannot recall how many times I've ratted players out using bots and even admitted in chat. And then you find all these instances of players actually boasting about in websites or even people selling these bot products, complete with PayPal accounts and a Twitter feed, FB page, etc. And SE didn't lift a finger. While I can empathize (and I certainly do feel overwhelmed by the RMT spam on some nights), I can assure you that all online games suffer from this problem and SE has been doing more than they used to do.

[Gillionaire]

I can assure you that all online games suffer from this problem and SE has been doing more than they used to do.

Which, compared to other games, is still not a lot

It's time to admit that SE doesn't have enough GM presence in the game, People can rarely ever speak to one, coupled with the horrid UI we have to blacklisting/reporting or general gameplay over all, it all adds up.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

could easily be circumvented by requiring players to be level 10 to send tells or friend requests

i really dont pay it much mind, it is one of the few gripes i have with the game

You already have trial accounts that can't send tells up to level 20. And it wouldn't be "easily circumvented" considering how easy it is to even level up anyway. All it would do is delay the inevitable by a few minutes.

[Dragonsoad]

They could just make it where you can't receive tells from anyone not on your friends list/FC/LS whose highest class/job that isn't at least level 5. At the very least it will make the RMTers do some FATEs. Could do the same to friend requests.

[Delorean]

You already have trial accounts that can't send tells up to level 20. And it wouldn't be "easily circumvented" considering how easy it is to even level up anyway. All it would do is delay the inevitable by a few minutes.

lol gil spammers having to get to level 10 to spam tells would actually help the game. i really dont think gil spammers are trying to play a game to do their job though. and trials can send whispers, but only to people on their friends list