Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Coltvoyance]

I agree with this threads letter. I've been playing MMO's for over 10 years, and this RMT situation is the worst I've seen.

/Signed
Athaleiya Eclesiance, Leviathan

As a suggestion, why not move the bar on when /tells are ALLOWED to be SENT? Many MMO's bar new characters from sending /tells until a certain level. For FFXIV, I suggest level 10, or even 15 before a character is allowed to send a /tell. The amount of extra work this will put on RMT's will hinder them significantly and limit real players minimally.

[Niwashi]

As a suggestion, why not move the bar on when /tells are ALLOWED to be SENT? Many MMO's bar new characters from sending /tells until a certain level. For FFXIV, I suggest level 10, or even 15 before a character is allowed to send a /tell. The amount of extra work this will put on RMT's will hinder them significantly and limit real players minimally.

It might be a minimal hindrance to a lot of players, even most of them probably, but some players join with friends and contacting those friends is one of the first things they want to do. Say and Shout aren't available for that if they're in different cities. So for the first 15 levels until they can meet up, Tell is the main way to communicate with each other.

I think there have been plenty of other suggestions on ways to stop the spam that won't impact real players. (A proper reporting feature, filtering messages with spam text, mandatory delays between /tell messages, etc.) Those still allow /tell to be used as intended by real players without impact. Until all those type of solutions have been implemented, I don't think SE should branch out into solutions that negatively affect real players as well.

[Orspeth]

It might be a minimal hindrance to a lot of players, even most of them probably, but some players join with friends and contacting those friends is one of the first things they want to do. Say and Shout aren't available for that if they're in different cities. So for the first 15 levels until they can meet up, Tell is the main way to communicate with each other.

I think there have been plenty of other suggestions on ways to stop the spam that won't impact real players. (A proper reporting feature, filtering messages with spam text, mandatory delays between /tell messages, etc.) Those still allow /tell to be used as intended by real players without impact. Until all those type of solutions have been implemented, I don't think SE should branch out into solutions that negatively affect real players as well.

I joined to play with a friend in different state.We'd played another game together for some years. Not being able to use tell is not a problem - we have things like FB messages, text on the phone and Skype.It's easy enough to let someone know your character name that way, and then they can communicate with you in game.
What I really want is to be able to block all incoming tells except from friends and Fc members if that is what I choose. Also a checkbox to block all incoming friend requests.

[Reiryuu]

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Why not have a quest that randomly creates a number (in Eorzean numbers) and the player has to look at something either in game or on a website (kind of like a captcha) to unlock tells? I mean, they HAVE symbols for Eorzean numbers, just look at the minicactpot next time you do it. If the information to do it is in game (like a billboard in front of the character) it shouldn't be too intrusive. I thought symbols of the 12 would work too, but perhaps this would be easier.