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

[Chibilidawg]

From this interview:

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen..._yoshida_this/


Yoshida Regarding RMT Spam

"We actually have a special task force dedicated to control and get rid of much spam, and control it within the game and not only the incidents that are reported by our players. Internally we have a special group always checking, allways researching, allways going after RMT spam and trying to find them and strike them and make sure to removed this incidents as much as possible. We also are going through with like an undercover investigation where we try to find out larger groups of people who are doing the RMT spam and try to control it from there as well. Also from a daily basis we are banning a few thousands accounts and tens of thousands of accounts per month so on the players inpoint it may not seem that the incidents have reduced but we are doing that best to control it, there is a lot of RMT spam thats happening so we have to be continously vigilant in order to stop them and avoid those incidents."


I don't think he or they know we want solutions to significantly reduce the /shout & /tell spam from gil-sellers...

Which makes me seriously frustrated & has me wondering... do they not understand that the bans mean next-to-nothing if the spam remains roughly the same?

All we see is RMT /tell spam every minute of every hour.


I don't get what's so hard about implementing:

1) a /tell filter for FC Members & Friends Only.

2) an auto-blacklisting, right-click report RMT feature.

3) a /shout & /yell restriction for level 15 & above only.

Among other fantastic ideas...

Speaking of #3, they could make it to where the feature doesn't unlock until after having beaten Sastasha in the MSQ.


Bans won't solve the problem, they'll just keep coming back stronger & multiplying.

We, the players, care most about not having our chat pinged every 30 seconds with a huge wall-of-text gil sale promotion.