Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[tocsin]

If it happens when 3.0 launches, that will suffice. If it happens after 3.0 launches, it will be too late by then, as SE will already have lost a lot of the new customers who start on the expansion's release day. This is the sort of thing that could completely ruin the expansion's release. That's why it's so important to make sure SE understands the magnitude of the problem now. The features to control this need to be in the launch day code.

Even if they just release a complex new algorithm that takes the RMT crowd only a month or two to break, it will still be enough to at least save the expansion. It needs a permanent fix, and I dont think we are going to get one any time soon, but a temporary fix for the expansion, just long enough for the new players to get roped in, and all the reviewers to come in and not see it, will save the game.

if not, FFXIV is headed towards destruction. If they cant fix it, I see the game being defunct within 2 years.

[Neofirezero]

Just ran across some very suspicious activities from this group of Rmt, looked like the were betting and using some sort of exploit that let them revive and be ported any spot they wanted. I captured it on my ps4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sQAiqjdOqQ&sns=em

Video is still being processed so give it a little if link does work right away, this just adds to how bad Rmt has gotten o my sever.

[BlackomegaKingofwaffles]

SE are really good at ignoring the whole rmt thing. I have never seen a game as infested with them as 14 is currently.

[Neofirezero]

In my video you can see mobs taking damage and not responding on top of the constant reviving from that spot next to the sign, with Noone being dead or anything.

[Riepah]

SE are really good at ignoring the whole rmt thing. I have never seen a game as infested with them as 14 is currently.

Yeah, it's pretty sad. Even some Free to Play titles would have a hard time trying to reach FFXIV's levels of RMT spam. And not a single word from any SE rep about it.

[Cronar]

i think the reason the gill sellers are so bad on and NA servers is because that is where the market is. now if you want to stop that then instead of focusing on the RMT how about we point our venom at the ones buying the gill? if there was no demand there would be no sellers. I am on a JP server and I MIGHT get a spam once very four or five months myself. but then I have shouts filtered so I may be missing some but as far as tells ya pretty quiet on that front

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Good luck finding out who is buying gil.

[Chibilidawg]

No, SE needs to implement things like this...

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

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

3) a /shout & /yell restriction until after "Call of the Sea" has been completed.

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.

Targeting gil-buyers only goes so far, so does banning the RMT accounts.

What's sad, is these are all very simple & easy to implement solutions...

Also, I'm really surprised they still let Tiggy around.

[Riepah]

Good luck finding out who is buying gil.

And even if we could, we wouldn't be allowed to name & shame them anyway, so they can just keep doing their thing.

[Lamentations]

[QUOTE=Cronar;2949288]i think the reason the gill sellers are so bad on and NA servers is because that is where the market is. now if you want to stop that then instead of focusing on the RMT how about we point our venom at the ones buying the gill? if there was no demand there would be no sellers. I am on a JP server and I MIGHT get a spam once very four or five months myself.

Not singling your post out specifically, but using it as an example I am getting pretty tired of seeing this it's an "NA" issue posted.

People post about how RMT free XI was, this simply wasn't true before ToAU was launched, before that RMT were a visible infestation, and Bismarck which is the server I spent my entire 8.5 year XI experience at was a multi-ethnic presence, "mostly" Japanese outside of NA.

Those Japanese players were present on Bismarck "before" ToAU launched, and "while" those RMT were a visible infestation, so it's because of the "NA" players buying gil doesn't apply.

I get that RMT are probably more active on NA servers than not, but that has as much to do with them simply "not" being dealt with enough outside the Japanese server environment, than any elusion it's because it's an "NA server" we are just as fed up with it as the Japanese would be.

As always it is the "people who buy gil" that are the root cause of this issue not those who sell it, and not because the game was released in the "NA" and not just elsewhere.

People need to get off the "It's an NA" problem, not all of us are slimy cheating gilbuyers.

This persistent fantasy that RMT are not an issue anywhere no NA are present is just that.

Again this is about the "people who buy gil", and "SE not getting rid of them and those who sell", they did it for the most part in XI, they can do it here, where you are from has nothing to do with it.