Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[AibohphobiA_BoB]

So many skilled developers and not one who can delete user names that start with "Ggatm'com Sellgil".

[Zabuza]

So many skilled developers and not one who can delete user names that start with "Ggatm'com Sellgil".

I'd say the thing that baffles me is the most is that I know from FFXI they have the power to fix this situation - yet they don't...

[Warlyx]

I'd say the thing that baffles me is the most is that I know from FFXI they have the power to fix this situation - yet they don't...

what? how and when they fixed RMT in FFXI?

[Seig345]

Call it a bandaid solution, but I'm still an advocate of having an option to filter tells to only come through from friends and fellow LS/FC members. Throw in an option JUST for ignoring/auto-rejecting friend requests, and you've given some semblance of purpose to /tells back to the game. Call it an adhesive bandage all you want, but I'd take the bandage over fighting for an all-or-nothing solution and getting nothing for it. People going perma-/busy or filtering tells out altogether are already "damaging" the community/communications with new players, a /tell filter isn't going to make that any worse, but it might reduce the chance of RMT spam scaring new players away.

/signed

[Magistrella]

what? how and when they fixed RMT in FFXI?

2006 sometime around july to september right after ToAU release - all RMT tells completely vanished from that point onwards. Before that i had 10-15 a day (on carbuncle, main population JP) after that never a single one again. I dont know what they did but i was glad they did it.

The STF in XI was working with another concept as well, in 2007 or 2008 they released how they were working against rmt and revealed that they had created an automatical program that can track gil up to 64(!) steps in trading/AH changing. So if you didnt bother to trade it 65 times with different people after you got it from a RMT on a second account you were likely to get your balls busted :x not that you needed much money in XI anyways, unlike here where you can spend millions a day just for tools and pets

('-')/

[MugenMugetsu]

So many skilled developers and not one who can delete user names that start with "Ggatm'com Sellgil".

/sarcasm Hey now, don't talk bad about Ggatm'com Sellgil. That guy wants to be my friend sooooo bad that he sends me friend requests at least a dozen times a day! :P

[Arkann]

If the average player can spot bots just using a simple /sea...



Square has no excuse not to delete them. Yet after 2 months of reports, one FC member who confessed to using bots in the FC chat is still there botting FATES while at work, and a Free Company made of one real "player" and his two gathering bots is still there too. Friend requests and /tell spam didn't stop either.

[Lucke]

I'm surprised they bothered unlocked BLM. I remember seeing a bunch of 50 THMs, like a year or so ago.

[Niwashi]

If the RMT problem happened at the JP servers you can be sure they would be doing more about it.

This may be (at least part of) the reason why the RMT spam isn't hitting the JP servers. It's not like RMT itself isn't a big moneymaker there. But they don't keep constantly harassing the players with in-game chat spam about it like they do to us. Japanese players wouldn't put up with it. The RMT companies are relying on SE's weird indifference to their NA/EU market, and directing their spam to where they can get away with it.

[lokinmodar]

Put a captcha/human confirmation to send friend request ^^