Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Ophie-Mio]

What is to say that they have to delay/stop the expansion to deal with this RMT issue? Hell, they've been releasing all these content patches in between, I can't imagine adding a few QoL features like a right click report button would be that difficult would it?

All these content patches? You mean...the one? 2.5 was announced long before this thread ever came about. 2.5 was in testing and finished on the NA side when this thread was doing its thing. All its major work had been done though. There hasn't been anything else aside from that. Nothing else. Just a few story missions and one fight. 2.56 is what? One tweak to a fight, a line of code that they've already used elsewhere and a few bug fixes that they probably fixed a month ago. And you're ignoring how people said that there hasn't been any content updates besides the main story?

The "small" QoL fix is an entire filtering system or new way to report people that somehow can't be abused...
It's not as small as you think.

Are you also saying that the fact people have to remain on busy status all the time or they get spammed every single minute nonstop is not extreme?

Maybe it is the way it is on Cactuar but I get spammed with messages and see a lot more people without the /busy than I see the ones with it on. Everyone has different tolerance levels. It's extreme in its own way but it doesn't affect the economy and the fact that that remains intact.

As I stated in my original post, SE has never made a statement regarding RMT and its procedures or any changes since XI's economy was destroyed. Hell, even the reddit thread that asked Yoshida yesterday/this evening only managed to get him to respond with, "We have the STF working on it."

You realize that if nothing happens - if this doesn't change at all, and Heavensward comes out...Do you understand how many new players are going to be driven away?

It won't drive enough away to squash profits, that's for sure. And that's what will make the SE developers act even more quickly than the in-game economy crashing. Also, because you're still subscribed, it obviously isn't enough to drive you away either. "May not subscribed" isn't a loss of profits.

It IS going to be too late by then, that's the problem.

It won't be. People will say, "Finally!" and be happy as they have done before in the past. Once HW is finished, they may or may not implement a filtering system. If they do, awesome. Everyone wins. If not, *shrugs* a majority of the people on your list will be set to /busy and still subscribe.

Exactly. if something isn't done about the RMT spam by heavensward, when all the game reviewers see it, we are likely going to be looking at another 1.0 situation.

What? You mean the 1.0 situation where like, 90% of its fanbase didn't actually like it? That the subscription numbers were barely enough to make due? Free to play for a while because SE admitted that they released the game too early and that it wasn't finished? Really? You think that RMT spam and what the debacle that 1.0 was is anything alike?
Really.

A Heavensward release with RMT issues, I can honestly see being the death knell of the game itself. This isn't 2001.

I assure you, it's not. XI kept going with a lower population than this game will ever know. At no point did XI ever get 1 mil subscriptions... That game never died. It's still not dead even though its content has ceased. RMT will not kill this game just as it never killed XI. A large amount of MMOs or not, people will either stay because they like the game/want to play or they don't.

With that, I'm honestly done. I will sit back and see what they do after HW is out, while you two go back and forth with your ideals of a better world one MMO at a time.

Edit: Also, please, don't feel that you have to respond. I honestly won't re-enter this thread to see whatever you said. I'm happy imagining a /busy with this thread.