The #1 Question Asked For The Letter From The Producer:

[tocsin]

I'm frankly disgusted by this. Its becoming more and more obvious each day that Yoshida and SE have zero actual care about the community, and are content to see it destroyed.

I cancelled my pre-order today. SE doesnt deserve my money.

[Spawnie]

ahh the joys of being in odin where u get 1-2 tells from a gold seller in a week :P

[Iromi]

Wait...did I miss something? They said they aren't doing the Q&A until the live letter event this weekend because they ran out of time.

Did they do the Q&A and I missed it? O.o

[kupokage]

The ordeal with these tell spams... Would it be too farfetched to think that SE themselves, at this point, are the ones advertising gil for cash? "They got rid of the hookers, now they're undercover to catch the johns" type of thing. Just a thought.

[BreathlessTao]

I suppose there is not enough RMT going on on the Japanese servers, so the Japanese question threads are not full of things about it. We all know JPN > everywhere else. (Btw, as far as I remember, there were no Q&A in the latest live letter at all, anyway.)

Also...

You know what's embarrassing? Besides arguing about how not everyone wants to / can do Coils, and calling people bad and whatever because of that?

Getting friend requests from characters with names like [whatever] Sellgil123456. That is embarrassing. The fact that such a game does not seem to have the most basic word filter in place to prevent RMTs to be this shameless about their crap. That is embarrassing. The cumbersome mechanics of saying no to the friend requests, then separately declining the friend requests, then separately blacklisting them, then filing a report in yet another separate window that's way too slow to fill with content and get to working. That is embarrassing. The way that new reply notifications can't be done away with the millions of "close this issue" popups, but an answer has to be opened, only to return to the reply, which then can't even be closed with the actual close button, but has to be clicked away via the cross in the upper right corner. That is embarrassing.

Bans are like band-aids: they might help stop the bleeding (ie. the symptom) from going absolutely everywhere, but they don't actually heal the cut (ie. the injury) itself. Banning is like changing the band-aid time and time again, but the bleeding doesn't stop from that, as it's very apparent in the game. They need to implement methods to actually make the life of RMTs more difficult: improve message filters, improve the way messages are handled (limiting tells for example), improve the ways such characters can be declined and ignored and reported (in addition I'd also say take legal action, but that's apparently too complicated to do). None of this seems to be being done, that's the slacking bit. The regular bans obviously don't help much, since RMTs just keep coming back with newer and newer (and more?) characters every time anyway.

[Mellaz]

Why do I feel as if I'm the only one not bothered by this. I'm always on, get a lot of spam and I just don't care, I ignore it, move on, and play. I have my chat set so that it will display everything except tells and if I get a tell I'll simply quickly switch over to check what it was and then switch back. Sure they should mediate how much RMT there is but I think cancelling a preorder and saying that they don't care for the community sounds like a child throwing a fit because he didn't get what he wanted. Have fun in whatever other game you want to play! I'll be preparing for Heavensward :P

[Malevicton]

If one person asks me what the meaning of life is, I'll tell them I don't know. If a billion people ask it won't mean I'm any closer to an answer.

Granted rmt is simpler than the meaning of life lol, but if they don't have an answer then they don't have an answer. It doesn't mean that they're necessarily ignoring the problem or the players. I still agree that they could add a few small QoL fixes for the rmt situation, but I wouldn't take the lack of answer too personally.

Why do I feel as if I'm the only one not bothered by this. I'm always on, get a lot of spam and I just don't care, I ignore it, move on, and play. I have my chat set so that it will display everything except tells and if I get a tell I'll simply quickly switch over to check what it was and then switch back. Sure they should mediate how much RMT there is but I think cancelling a preorder and saying that they don't care for the community sounds like a child throwing a fit because he didn't get what he wanted. Have fun in whatever other game you want to play! I'll be preparing for Heavensward :P

Same here man. After I turned off the ping sound from tells I hardly even notice it.

[Dererk]

This is pretty stupid that so many threads on this matter and not one dev respond let alone a game master in hearing from a few on the English forum don't know if it's true so bear with me. But they respond more on the jp forums so lets do this.


BOMBARD THE JAPANESE FORUMS WITH THIS PROBLEM THEY WONT LIKE IT THEN GM WILL MOVE IN TO PUT THE POST BK ON THE ENGLISH ONE THEN WE DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND MAKE IT CLEAR THIS WILL CONTINUE TILL WE GET A REAL RESPONS.

[Kaze3434]

Was about RMT.

sadly OP, i have to clear this up. just went thru to make sure, but a total of 15 posts out of a possible 440+ were about rmt, some spread out over a 3-6 page gap. it may have been to most frequently asked question, but the way you have it worded makes it seem as tho that was the only question asked, when it wasnt.

[Rhaja]

I've personally learned how to completely ignore the spam, and every now and then will comment in FC chat about how polite they got. That being said the last two days I've decided to see just how often I was getting tells on Behemoth.

In two hours of play each day I was getting about a tell every ten minutes. Thankfully I haven't seen any spam in shout, but I usually stay out of the cities. So yeah... I spose it's kinda bad. But again I've gotten really good at just not noticing it now. I've also given up on declining friend request since they tend to just resend them =\. I stopped Blisting them because there's absolutely no point to it either.