Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Thayos]

this is a 100% player problem, if players didn't buy gil then prices wouldn't be so inflated. ppl gotta have their stuff now...

I disagree.

The moment an honest player like me is impacted by all this spam -- and when there's absolutely no way for players to mitigate this, and the development team moves incredibly slowly to implement even simple fixes -- then it's no longer just a player problem. This is now a problem with the game.

I also think it's a bit unrealistic to expect to solve the problem by asking people to stop buying gil. People will NEVER stop buying gil, which is why these RMT services exist. The demand will always be there. And if RMT have supply, then there will always be buyers.

It's equally important for SE to take action (which it does, but slowly), and also important for SE to give us chat filters and/or right-click reports.

Long ago in this thread, I listed three or four simple steps SE could take to make life much harder on RMT. I did not include a chat filter in my request. The only downside to a chat filter is that it would be so effective in blocking out spam that fewer players would be making reports about RMT activity... but if SE isn't really going to do anything about the spam, then having all those RMT reports is worthless anyway, and we might as well have chat filters.