Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[tocsin]

It's time to get Square-Enix to give us the opportunity to contact the Legal and Copyright divisions.

This is clearly an attempt by the RMT to take over the game and choke out legitimate play.

I really hope this is a troll post....

If not, then you really need to play more. if it weren't for the chat spam, you probably would never even have been able to tell that RMT exists. They don't inhibit anyone, because there is no content that is server limited, like shared gathering nodes.

[Eorzean_Mog]

Those "deleted" names are not coming from SE banning/deleting names/accounts. When you see a "deleted" it's because the account holder deleted the name themselves.

Exactly. Banning or canceling accounts does not actually delete the character.

That's even worse. lol SE should be DELETING those characters too, so they never come back.

[Its_Elodie]

I'm tired of living on busy while I miss ready checks and tells from my friends.


/signed.

Final Heaven -Lamia

[tocsin]

That's even worse. lol SE should be DELETING those characters too, so they never come back.

Actually, its better, because it means that those gibberish names cannot be reused.

The RMT bots are already having to go to 9 characters, because they keep running out of usable new char names to use.

[aresgodofwar30]

BIND GIL TO ACCOUNT
SE PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS PROBLEM
/signed

[LandricFrey]

All of my friend requests are from names like "Spambots'com Sellgils".

And that is just embarrassing. That's like someone holding a sign that says "I will rob you," then gets on a loud speaker and repeats that, and then he robs you, gets away with it, all right in front of the police station, with the chief saying "It's not a big deal."

OK so maybe that's not a great simile (or even a good one), but you get where I went with that. If it was my game I'd feel like I was a joke or something.

[Laraul]

Actually, its better, because it means that those gibberish names cannot be reused.

The RMT bots are already having to go to 9 characters, because they keep running out of usable new char names to use.

Does it matter? Gibberish names are Gibberish names. The problem with not deleting names is that they fill up the loadstone character listings with tons of bogus characters. These characters need to be removed so when I do a search for "Karli" I don't get 60,000 responses.

[Arkann]

They multiply.

[Riepah]

If not, then you really need to play more. if it weren't for the chat spam, you probably would never even have been able to tell that RMT exists.

You must think everyone to be going through life very, very blindly indeed. It would take much more than a little inattention to not notice the bots in this game. Looking the same, moving in the same place at the same time, teleporting. Claiming that the person you quoted would probably "never even have been able to tell" is quite insulting, in my opinion.

[tocsin]

snip.

The question is, do they actually do anything actively to bother you? or is it just the elitist "if you arent playing the game my way, its cheating and i hate you" attitude that a lot of the players in this game have?

Honestly, if I see a group of 4 characters moving around in one spot, I couldnt care the slightest. there is zero that they are doing to directly harm my gameplay, and the bots usually keep to themselves. You dont generally see the lvl 50 black mages spamming people. you see level 1's doing so.

I dont meanliterally that they wouldnt be able to see them, I meant that they wouldnt notice their effects on gameplay. people seem to severely overestimate the damage that bots do, especially with as broken of an economy as FFXIV has. The specialist system in heavensward will fix it slightly, but IMO it will likely still be completely reliant on Bots, unless they eliminate the shard system entirely.

Does it matter? Gibberish names are Gibberish names. The problem with not deleting names is that they fill up the loadstone character listings with tons of bogus characters. These characters need to be removed so when I do a search for "Karli" I don't get 60,000 responses.

alternatively, someone has a small gibberish name blacklisted. the character gets deleted, and the character gets taken off your blacklist. the next day, a new bot with the EXACT SAME name starts spamming you again, and it looks like SE never even banned the first one.

Keeping old names is a way to tell that they are at least making an insignificant action against them.