RMT, I'm seriously pissed! >:<

[Kosmos992k]

...welcome to FFXIV- wait, when did you start playing? And you've only been experiencing this for a few days? Consider yourself lucky, really. :/

They are on a JP server. JP servers have been pretty free of RMT crap. I noted one interesting thing from the OP, they say that their English speaking friends have confirmed the same thing happening to them. It seems to me that the RMT scum are widening out their attempts to get customers, but are still focusing on western players since Japanese players apparently have enough sense not to buy gil.

I would still do it just in case. You can never be too certain, especially since I've seen posts like this (though...not frogs.) followed a few days later with "I WAS HACKED!"

I agree. Short of browsing in text only with image, popup, pop under, java and script blocking literally blocking everything except plain text, you cannot fully prevent issues, and even then....

[Teryaani]

It seems to me that the RMT scum are widening out their attempts to get customers, but are still focusing on western players since Japanese players apparently have enough sense not to buy gil.

My suspicion is that the /tell filters are better for Japanese than they are for English and the GM enforcement is better. I have no doubt that Japanese players still buy gil...

just not from sites that advertise "COMPLETELY LEGAL! 3W . ISTEALYURACCOUNT.C 0 m

[Cadmar]

You could, you know, just ignore it.

[Teryaani]

You could, you know, just ignore it.

The friend requests suck. Ignoring /Tell is easy (you don't read them), declining the friend requests takes clicks.

[Kikoten]

My blacklist is full of gil sellers. Literally, my blacklist is full to the brim. I can't mute anymore people. Sometimes just for fun I sing to them in whispers.

Sometimes I cuss them out to see if maybe, just maybe, they'd put up a fight.

Of course, my biggest worry is that I'd get a gil spam whisper, type /r just after a friend whispers me, followed by another gil spam to flood my chat box, and I end up singing something racist or calling my friend a double-blended screwberry twist (censored for profanity reasons).

[Eye_Gore]

My suspicion is that the /tell filters are better for Japanese than they are for English and the GM enforcement is better. I have no doubt that Japanese players still buy gil...

just not from sites that advertise "COMPLETELY LEGAL! 3W . ISTEALYURACCOUNT.C 0 m

They're using shouts now too. I've seen a few in the past couple weeks. Today though I was in Gridania, got 6 in a row all from the same name, try to black list, gone before I could. Ended up in Ul Dah later, same thing.

[Nyalia]

You could, you know, just ignore it.

The friend requests can't really be ignored, as they stay flashing on your screen until you go into the friend list, find the name, click on it, and click deny. You can't even deny the request from the popup - if you do, it just sits there flashing.

I love my /flist deny <r> /blist add <r> macro. Those are the only bots I bother blisting anymore, as clearing your blist when it gets full is a chore. When I get a friend request, I automatically hit my little macro.

... and then occasionally, like, an hour later, I'll realize that it was a real person I knew trying to friend me and not a bot, and I just not only denied their friend request, but blisted the last friend to send me a tell <_< That's happened at least three times so far.


For tell spam, I just ignore it. Unless I'm in a tell conversation with someone, if I get a tell that has any special characters or is more than one line, my eyes don't even focus on it. I just glance at the textbox, note what it is, and go on to what I was doing. Or, more likely, I just ignore all tells. Hmm, I wonder if you can macro moving /tell messages between windows, so I can turn off tells entirely, but have a button that turns them on for when I want to talk to someone about something... Of course, if someone else tries to initiate a conversation, I'd miss it, but small loss compared to dealing with RMT x_x

[Teryaani]

They're using shouts now too. I've seen a few in the past couple weeks. Today though I was in Gridania, got 6 in a row all from the same name, try to black list, gone before I could. Ended up in Ul Dah later, same thing.

I noticed a re-appearance of shouts too. They went away for a while on Siren. The period of aggressive enforcement must have ended. I'm sure the GMs will watch for a while and ban, it'll quiet down for a month and then be right back to it's annoying level.

[tocsin]

If anyone here has not done so yet, I would strongly encourage signing the petition that the players have set up, relating to RMT: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...RMT-situation.

Maybe we can make our voice heard in numbers.

[BobbinT]

Sign HERE and hope SE does something soon.

/signed. Hope you (and us) get the support deserved.

...welcome to FFXIV- wait, when did you start playing? And you've only been experiencing this for a few days? Consider yourself lucky, really. :/

since 1.0 days. And no, this is not the 1st time, although the method of request friend are quite new. Back in Sargatanas, I have almost full blist list. This is one of reason (with others being latency problem), that makes me decide to move server. It is already worse back then, then I can't imagine how worse it is when I happen to go back to NA/EU servers.

Few days ago, I went to NA/EU servers pay my friends a visit. The RMT situation at there are far more worst, horrible. You should go see for yourself.
Honestly, I don't know how those NA/EU players able to endure it.

Oh yes, yes I do, very much. And no, I really can't endure it. Getting 5-10 /tell every day, and chat log spammed with RMT ads in cities.

Strange thing is, when I go back play XI, there are RMTs, but they were quite... few and suppressed for most of it. If XI's protection quality against RMT are good, then why XIV-ARR have gotten worse?

They are on a JP server. JP servers have been pretty free of RMT crap. I noted one interesting thing from the OP, they say that their English speaking friends have confirmed the same thing happening to them. It seems to me that the RMT scum are widening out their attempts to get customers, but are still focusing on western players since Japanese players apparently have enough sense not to buy gil.

Well... in case you haven't knew, Masamune and Tonberry are those server having biggest english community that want to enjoy this game with less latency, mostly due to SEA regional. And I do happen to receive RMT attacks before current ones, but not as notorious as back then when I'm still @ Sargatanas.

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Thanks for the tips. I'm gonna copy your macro, and hope this might ease up these troubles.