Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Morbid]

I agree...

[Riepah]

Right after "Pay to win", "Overrun with bots and spam" is pretty much at the top of the list of things that will damage a game's and company's reputation. Ignoring this issue is neither smart nor fair towards the playerbase, in my opinion.

[Zabuza]

Just checked the thread again. I have to say, the information about the ad and the lack of response on the letter from the producer is just... baffling and depressing to me. Words can't even express the disappointment I feel.

I do not know why people continue to respond to this post when we all know that there is no chance in hell of ever getting any acknowledgement from SE. It's too negative and puts SE in a bad light. The only things that get noticed by the Devs/Management are the Polyanna posts that make them look good.

Players need someplace to express to SE just how unhappy they are with this situation. A thread with a bunch of pages and replies is more easily quantifiable and trackable than a bunch of small threads about it. What is just amazing to me is that I know what you say is true though. The weird part about that is, when FFXIV 1.0 bombed, SE came out and admitted/apologized for their failure there. FFXIV: A Realm Reborn would not even exist if they hadn't put themselves in a bad light back then and accepted responsibility...Back then I had mad respect for them as I'd never heard of a company doing such a thing. With this situation...not only are they showing they do not care about the customers, which is depressing; they also show a lack of care for their own profits if RMT are involved. It's like they are strongly opposed to going full throttle to really fight the plague that is RMT on this game. Absolutely incredible.

The more SE ignores this, the worse it continues to make them look. The more they ignore this, the angrier people get. This is not something that will just be forgotten as long as we are spammed like crazy in game all the time. Only way it gets talked about less is if existing players start UNSUBBING because they are fed up. That will be even worse for SE. Ignoring this issue makes them look way worse than assuring the players they're going to step up their game(followed through by actions, of course.)

I wonder if SE gave China their own servers and restricted them to there if it would help...

[Adire]

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I'm on my last 2 weeks of sub time myself. I'm planning on going on break until after Heavensward, seeing how the game is by then, then deciding whether or not to come back.

I am not spammed to hell and back like some people are by RMTs, but I do not condone the apathy being shown by SE on this matter as well as many other problems. The only way I will be back is if some of the problems, particularly RMTs are addressed, or if I get the urge to play enough that it overpowers my better judgement.

Money speaks louder than words to corporations after all.

[Tanama]

Signed. This has gone on for far to long.

[Coltvoyance]

60 Pages without a response..... guess we need to keep going. Next stop 100 Pages.

We demand an answer.

[Chibilidawg]

My irl friends who play with me & are hanging out tonight, we all are signing this:

Drid Woodhoft (Coeurl)
King Adunis " "
Piper Bell " "
Plumpy Mcduff " "
Toodles Mcduff " "
Saedrin Nightfury " "

[Donarudo]

This needs a bump..

[Zephanoa]

/sign for the betterment of all of eorzea

[Sicno]

You know, I was thinking... something that would be good not only for the gilsellers issue, but overall socially would be that blacklisting would work account-wise, not character-wise.

Think about it. If there's a person I don't want to contact me they can always make a new character and contact me again, which would be unfortunate. I want to block a person, not a character. In the specific case of gilsellers this would mean that after I block them they won't send me a tell 10 minutes later from their new char, and that may reduce the frequency of spam. This and a right click -> blacklist/report feature would work very well I think.