SE's 3 Member Special Task Force at Work

[KisaiTenshi]

Except, that the automated response given by GM's, when RMT is reported, is that the in-game staff does not handle RMT reports, and gives a direct web link to the STF submission form.

I said RMT spam. I sure hope you've been using the "report cheating" form in the game for the actual stuff you want sent to the STF. You know... after someone translates it. It's more likely that there's a dedicated NA/EU STF that just isn't listed in the credits.

At any rate, I think it would be absurd for them to be doing all this manually all this time, they probably had tools written back after FFXI was released to combat RMT, and revised them ever since and applied them to FFXIV v1.0 and v2.0 as they went. Trust me. When I worked at *above* , everyone has their own personal scripts for dealing with the stuff they see repeatedly.

[Laraul]

At any rate, I think it would be absurd for them to be doing all this manually all this time, they probably had tools written back after FFXI was released to combat RMT, and revised them ever since and applied them to FFXIV v1.0 and v2.0 as they went. Trust me. When I worked at *above* , everyone has their own personal scripts for dealing with the stuff they see repeatedly.

You assume that they have tools or have the knowledge/resources to create their own. This does not appear to be the case. For example... take a look at this listing of characters and see if you can spot the spammers from the legit accounts. It should be fairly easy to spot a pattern right away. If they had tools for this they could spot these before they start...