Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Sicno]

but does anyone know whether they're blocked from sending Friend requests?

As far as I remember (I started playing with a free trial) they can't send them.

[Fenral]

And then we got an official response to a completely inconsequential request thread with a whopping two pages.

I realize your work is difficult, maybe even stressful, and that there's a lot you aren't allowed to say without authorization, but can you at least give us one of the usual, "we're aware of the situation and will keep you apprised as we know more." Pretty please?

[Coltvoyance]

You cant placate this situation by releasing a benchmark. We still want an answer for this! Bumping so it doesn't get lost under all the Au Ra threads.

[Natashio]

Don't worry..the Au Ra threads will sink down by the end of the week, and it will be back to business as usual..

[Avenger]

Perhaps I missed it, but has there been an official response to any of the spam/RMT threads or to the epidemic in general?

(edit: besides the periodic "action taken against rmt: we've banned more of them" posts which are nice and all but not really a response to the many threads/issues/suggestions which have been posted here and elsewhere.)

[Zabuza]

Perhaps I missed it, but has there been an official response to any of the spam/RMT threads or to the epidemic in general?

(edit: besides the periodic "action taken against rmt: we've banned more of them" posts which are nice and all but not really a response to the many threads/issues/suggestions which have been posted here and elsewhere.)

No, there hasn't been a response in any of the threads. I think Yoshida answered a question about it in an interview he did. Though I don't know the link or when this interview was. Within the interview he said he had people undercover in the RMT web and also that they were banning accounts. Basically no diff than what is happening now.

[Fenral]

Oh, and they're on Gilgamesh now. The friend spammers, I mean. I got three today, in the few hours I was on.

Nowhere is safe anymore.

[Zanmato]

Special Task Force consists of THREE people. I sincerely hope these 3 people are not the ones dealing with the RMTs because if they are, it really shows that SE gives not a whimper about RMTs, and more about the money that the RMTs bring into the game by "playing" it. There has to be a change. I just recently changed server from Odin to Phoenix with a blank blacklist, that blacklist is nearly half-full! I joined Phoenix no less than 3 months or so ago. And yes, I delete the inactive ones.

Also, as people have touched upon, friend-spammers. I get at least 3 per day.

[KikoriL]

Oddly, I haven't had a single one on Sargatanas, and only one shout today. It is indeed as if the spammers are cycling through worlds, or data centers.

[Gamer3427]

While honestly Shiva doesn't seem to be getting it anywhere near as bad as other servers, I've still had more than a few annoyances from RMT accounts. Just from the ones I've remembered to personally blacklist to get to stop spamming me, my Blacklist is nearly full, and I've only been playing for a few months with most of my game time being during the hours when the server is the quietest.....

/sign