Dear Square Enix - this is tragic, it really is sickening and disgusting

[DragonFlyy]

It is disgusting to see, however i've said it before and i'll say it again, these bots/gil/gold sellers will always exist if there if a market for it, the game is a few years old now, if there was no market for profit wouldn't stick around, in fact you can tell which servers are craving into it by the larger presence and more tenacious attitude of them. I've played three servers over my time during FF14 ARR and i've noticed they're a lot more active on certain servers while barely present on others.

Unfortunately there is only so much SE can do, and as players all you can really do is report them. It's easier to avoid purchasing gil from gil spammers than it is purchasing items these bots.

The other day on my alt server of cerberus i found four bots inside that small cave located the furthest south west in corthas, farming the mobs there for days.

Less activity on other servers is due to restrictions on character creation.

[Luvbunny]

These gilselers not even bother to send you tells anymore, they do shouts, yell, say, everything anything to blatantly advertise, not even putting weird randomized symbols.... They either desperate or people actually buying gils massively... Why would you even need gills in this game?? All the best gears are FREE by doing end game stuffs. Almost every crafting items can be farmed for free, only the highest level materials are rare, but you will get them by doing more contents. I rather SE sell these items (for people who do not want to spend time farming) - and kill gill seller in the process. Or just don't buy gil, end of story.

[Bluevann]

Sadly the only way to stop RMT forever would be to make gil pointless. Make housing acquired through achievements rather than gil (like, points, buy with company seals and whatnot), negate all forms of trading between players (to prevent win selling), and maybe turn the market board into an NPC that players supply and who sells the items supplied on a first-come, first-served basis at a price set up by the game and not by ourselves (example: I trade 3 potions that the NPC automatically sells for 20 gil, but two other players traded potions before me, so I have to wait for their own to be sold before mine can be bought by someone), to stop people from selling minions or rare loot at absurd prices.

Housing, clears, rare items. For as long as these things keep asking for millions, people will need millions, and they will look to gil buying.

(Materia used to be in the list of gil sinks, but SE is thankfully making them not required with the Scrips system incoming in 3.0)

[Seraphyel]

Also depends from server to server.
Some got more gilseller spams while other don't.

I got 6 friend invites within 1 hour on the least populated EU server. It's getting ridiculous and there is no way to stop it.

[ShinigamiKiba]

It seems they target some people more than others which creeps me out.
I get spammed with their crap every few minutes and it's driving me nuts
I just want to swing my Zeta axe a few times at these bots and never hear from them again but that's impossible in this game lol
then again it's not like dead/ko'd players can't send tells and shout so it wouldn't do much good

[Caoihmin]

Personally I won't even buy shards from the ah any more. it's a pain farming them myself but I can't bring myself to buy them from the ah knowing they are more than likely from rmt.

Boycotting the obvious bot-gathered materials is a wise yet unfortunately uneffective strategy. The plyerbase's laziness will always trump principles in gaming. The same can be said about the RMT nightmare; crack down on the buyers in the form of permanent bans and you will see a decrease. Yet this seems to be an overlooked or ignored solution.

[Nalien]

Personally I won't even buy shards from the ah any more. it's a pain farming them myself but I can't bring myself to buy them from the ah knowing they are more than likely from rmt.

Eh, I haven't bought or farmed Shards in a loooooooong time, and not because I don't use them...

Those two extra (pay2win) Retainers being Miner/Botanists gets me all the Shards/Crystals I'll ever need. As long as SE doesn't suddenly make Ventures difficult to accrue I'll only ever have to lift a finger to get Clusters, but it's more likely come Lv60 they can even farm those for me...

Were I less lazy and less tasteful, I'd be posting a LimeGuy meme with Shards/Ventures right now. Seriously though, I find Ventures for Shards to be incredibly useful, you may want to look into doing that. Everyone may... I don't know how RMT can own the Shard market when my Retainers can bleed Shards... Do people prefer getting HQ Hippo skins every 18 hours or something?

[Orspeth]

Op - I'm with you on the sickening - those things are hanging round right in the damn inn on my server too. I keep reporting them, but I am discouraged.

[Lexxuk]

I think the vast majority of the playerbase fully understand that SE are not taking any steps to alleviate the problems that spambots are causing it's player base, so we've given up.

Personally I've put my /tells on to a tab so I never read them (got fed up being /busy constantly), RMT's response? Friend requests for rmtsite'com sellzgilzklja, like, seriously, the only way to block RMT spam bots in this game is to be busy, constantly.

Obviously you can't possibly suggest that SE could do something about it but aint, you end up getting banned if you for one instance question the ability of SE, so best not to suggest they are anything other than perfect in their handling of RMT.

[Maero]

I see that fairly often tbh, also i swear i have seen a guild that are actually gil sellers as every time i log in and go to east shroud (crawler coccoons) these 2 or 3 players are always mining the same things, that or they realllly love mining to be doing it hours on end and every day, lol