Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Thayos]

I just want a player-set chat filter. I'd block tells and shouts with special characters and extra spaces. That would minimize the spam enough for me to the point I'd no longer consider it a problem.

[Zabuza]

As always, players are insisting developers to resolve problems created by players.

Ban gil buyers in your FC, boot them from party, refuse to party them and shame them openly. (yes I agree this is pretty extreme)

Like shark fins or any other endangered species. STOP the eating (buying) and the killing (selling) will STOP!

How would you even know if someone is a gilbuyer? It's not like they come out and admit it. Yeah, players did indeed create this problem you're right. But again, just telling players to "stop buying gil" or some such thing is not going to cause this problem to stop. This problem is not solvable by the players at this point, which is why we turn to the devs/SE.

I wish they would do something about this. Start threatening people with legal action or something. It's hands down the most annoying aspect of this game. I have a blacklist full of people who spam this crap and i still receive tells for this every couple minutes.

Posted a reply up here because I'm at my post limit for the day. I just let the chat log be since a couple weeks ago. I realized having to remove people from my already full blacklist just to add new ones who spammed me every minute was actually more effort than just leaving the chat log alone. It's just not even worth it for me to blist anymore. All my /tells go to a separate tab now and the chime sound has been disabled. Anyone who sends me a /tell for anything will be ignored because I rarely look at my /tells as it just disgusts me every time I look at them.

[Aerowaffle]

As always, players are insisting developers to resolve problems created by players.

Ban gil buyers in your FC, boot them from party, refuse to party them and shame them openly. (yes I agree this is pretty extreme)

Like shark fins or any other endangered species. STOP the eating (buying) and the killing (selling) will STOP!

Let me check with all the members of my FC.

Well I'm not buying gil.

After a through interrogation with all 1 of my active members of the FC, I've kicked all 0 of the people who were buying gil. I don't party or invite strangers who admit to taking part of RMT. I still see a problem with RMT, and yet, I've done everything I personally can to stop it.

[skillmatic320]

I wish they would do something about this. Start threatening people with legal action or something. It's hands down the most annoying aspect of this game. I have a blacklist full of people who spam this crap and i still receive tells for this every couple minutes.

[LandricFrey]

If RMT are allowed to spam advertisements for their Websites in game with no consequences, then could others spam ads for other purposes too? If so, this game could be a game changer!

Just imagine:

{Thayos Redblade}: I know a mom in my hometown who made 80k last year working from home! Go to this site to learn more!
{Landic Frey}: What your doctor isn't telling you about erectile dysfunction! This site will change your life!
{Rezon Shinryu}: Bad Credit? No Credit? Find your options for low-rate home loans here!
{Toaster Oven}: Can anyone help me with Steps of Faith?
{Sephiroth Ninja}: Someone nearby is searching for you! Get online and find your match now!

You'd be amazed to discover what you don't know about ED. Thank you for plugging my site!

[Avenger]

I thought this was an interesting (if old) read about the gil-selling situation back in FFXI.

I don't want to restart the argument about the efficacy of threads like this, but I did want to ask, has SE publicly said anything official about the RMT spam in FFXIV? I know that there was a long period in FFXI during which SE effectively chose to ignore gil-sellers, which really ruined the economy. The player experience eventually deteriorated until SE were forced to do something about it (this was when the 'special task force' was created). Thankfully, FFXIV doesn't currently seem to be anywhere near the level FFXI was at before the task force was introduced, but, given that particular history, I think people are right to be concerned if SE has been silent on the issue.

EDIT: After some more googling, it seems like this was the latest word from SE on the RMT issue (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). It's certainly a fairly promising message, in some regards.

There are regular announcements of account bans under "actions taken against RMT and other illicit activities." I do remember Yoshi-P responding briefly once, possibly in a live letter from the producer (I seem to recall him saying that they needed to "exterminate" the RMT/spammers or something like that.)

Unfortunately I haven't yet seen any forum comments or responses from any of the community team or developers, in spite of the worsening spam problem and the large number of threads. This is very surprising since the community team frequently addresses other topics and concerns, but the 800 pound elephants (spam/RMT/botting) seem to be ignored.

[Eye_Gore]

Unfortunately I haven't yet seen any forum comments or responses from any of the community team or developers, in spite of the worsening spam problem and the large number of threads.

I doubt you/we ever will. Other than the monthly report.

[Avenger]

The more I think about this, the more I am inclined to agree that right-click report (including the message, obviously) really couldn't hurt.

Apparently WoW has something similar already, along with some kind of auto-ban system, so it seems not to destroy the game.

p.s. That's square-button report for PS3/PS4 players. ;-)

[Titans]

I'm adding my signature to.

[Oraiste]

/sign I hope this gets their attention.