Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Morbid]

Abandon all hope.. Ye who enter here..

[Tiggy]

to put it in plain terms for you tiggy you spin your bs as if you know everything.. you always have and always will in all the posts you have made in this thread have been nothing more than a claim that se has done this doing everything they can they AND will fix the situation.. enlighten us all to your source tiggy… PLEASE BECAUSE IM INTERESTED TO KNOW!! While I\\'m on it answer me why you come here and still spout crap on things that have very little bearing on you? .. as your server doesnt have much rmt as you have said!!

It's called common sense. In the last year and a half they have told us changes as they were made and the changes were visible in game but only for a month or two at best. You don't need an inside source to see what's obvious and what many people in this thread are ignoring. As a software developer myself I also explicitly understand what deadlines are like. Right now they are working very hard to meet the expansion release. Once again no inside information needed at all. This is all common sense stuff. Maybe you should simmer down and use your head instead of vilifying me for pointing it the plainly obvious truth.

Another reality is no mmo has ever perfectly handled this situation. Ever. So you need to temper your expectations in general.

[Morbid]

Sorry Tiggy but SE is doing nothing of impact in this situation. Also it's common sense that GMs are not the actual developers and coders for the game. They are separate teams. The amount of people on the teams is something to consider... HOWEVER... You don't need to know the code to simply ban an RMT account or take action against large hordes of bots in an area.

I don't think folks deny that Square is hard at work making sure the expansion is ready to make more money off of people (us the monthly subscribers).

All we ask is the considerable amount of attention this issue needs is also implemented and not showing up every other week with a continually dwindling list of RMT bans.

[Ren_Taka]

The problem is getting worse and worse. I was doing crafting for my FC mates and I had to keep busy on to prevent from screwing up due to all the pop-ups from friend requests from level 1s in ul'dah. All of my FC were on busy due to spam bots. In the time it took for me to do a trade and my friend to give me 4 mats, she had 4 spam tells and a friend request. /r is useless right now because it will most likely be a spam bot you got a tell from last. It's utterly ridiculous.

[Starcade]

I'm going to say it openly: I think Square-Enix is getting money from these illegal outfits.

Since the STF is overwhelmed, it's a clear merchandise-counterfeiting situation otherwise, and the only real alternatives are either that Copyright/Legal has to get in on it as a merchandise-counterfeiting operation or that Square-Enix somehow sanctions and allows for it.

[Morbid]

I'm going to say it openly: I think Square-Enix is getting money from these illegal outfits.

Since the STF is overwhelmed, it's a clear merchandise-counterfeiting situation otherwise, and the only real alternatives are either that Copyright/Legal has to get in on it as a merchandise-counterfeiting operation or that Square-Enix somehow sanctions and allows for it.

No need for all that SE theoretically would be happy with the $15 a month and the bump to subscription numbers...

[tocsin]

No need for all that SE theoretically would be happy with the $15 a month and the bump to subscription numbers...

Theoretically, maybe. However, SE is a business, and only obtaining $15 a month from all the subscribers only nets the company a little over ten million a year, which isn't a sustainable amount of money, for a company with as much going on as SE does.

They make more money, because they can get away with making more money. and the bigger the cash cow that FFXIV is to them, the more support it will get.

The question it all comes down to is: is the money they would make from the added subscribers that stay due to lack of RMT, worth more profit than the money that RMT brings them (illegal money).

Personally, I think SE has a different answer to this question than we do.

[Morbid]

You can't spell corporation without the letters G-R-E-E-D..

[slml320]

It's called common sense. In the last year and a half they have told us changes as they were made and the changes were visible in game but only for a month or two at best. You don't need an inside source to see what's obvious and what many people in this thread are ignoring. As a software developer myself I also explicitly understand what deadlines are like. Right now they are working very hard to meet the expansion release. Once again no inside information needed at all. This is all common sense stuff. Maybe you should simmer down and use your head instead of vilifying me for pointing it the plainly obvious truth.

Another reality is no mmo has ever perfectly handled this situation. Ever. So you need to temper your expectations in general.

why do you keep spinning the expansion bs with your posts i don't give 2 shits about there 3.0 deadline etc blah blah … they have had at least a year to add bigger blists easier reporting methods stoping low lvl tells as well as many other great ideas long before development started.. they will never eradicate rmt but with a few simple things in place a year ago plus may have helped curb the rmt.. instead they have sat idle and its clearly gotten worse .. why is there so much rmt on the n/a servers and practically none on the jp servers.. should the n/a severs be treated like shit while the jp servers aren't ?? and why shouldnt ppl stand up and say hey wtf why are they doing nothing??? and where is our dev or whatever team to give us some info on what they should be doing??? tiggy!!!

ps biddy yarrr isn't spamming in limsa anymore next day they were replaced by another lowbie toon been there for 4 days now.. and this is SE at its where doing something best!!!!

[Fenral]

words

Best stop feeding her (him?). This thread is still our last, best hope for victory, so we'd better not let it go toxic and get locked by a well-meaning forum mod.

Right-click reporting. Not a perfect solution, to be sure, but it's better than what we have at the moment, which is nothing. We can use the existing systems as workarounds for sanity preservation, but an actual UI component would help us help them do their jobs better, since they seem to be so very overextended. How is that not win-win?