Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Lucke]

They've had internet browser access since PS3 was released. Plenty of console gamers in general keep up with the web. Otherwise sites like Gameinformer and Gamespot would have collapsed long ago. I'm sure plenty of PS3/PS4 players of FFXIV have been using Lodestone regularly.

Sorry I meant PS3/4 has internets access. I hope you're right. I hope lots of people at least read this thread even if they don't want to post. Build as much awareness as possible. If game journalism gets involved and writes stories about SE's lack of (adequate) care in RMTs, more people would know.

[Matriqona]

Perma IP Ban and be done with it.

[Niwashi]

Perma IP Ban and be done with it.

They're unlikely to have static IP addresses, so banning by address wouldn't accomplish anything. Some games have had some success with banning whole ranges of addresses that originate in parts of the world that are notorious for a lot of this type of abuse. But banning entire countries like that means they can't allow any legitimate players from those countries either, so it's a pretty drastic measure for an internationally marketed game to take.

[Tigra]

new characters can now only /tell others once they hit level 15-30 somewhere around there >_> make it a part of the tutorial later in the game

[Magusrex]

Dev's, moderators please address this issue with some kind of response, it is awful on server, I get a friend request, sometimes 2 before I can even see my character. It feels like you are giving all of us the finger and I can only assume you are profiting or benefiting by this in some way at our expense, I promise you that when I eventually quit over this, I will not not come back, I never come back. I have a really hard time understanding your position, you launched this game it was awful, you listened to the players and relaunched and it is much better. Listen to us again. I have to go busy, it isn't right and have multiple friend requests before I can even set it. I would feel SOOOOO much better if you just commented in this thread that you actually care.

[Zabuza]

I have a really hard time understanding your position, you launched this game it was awful, you listened to the players and relaunched and it is much better. Listen to us again. I have to go busy, it isn't right and have multiple friend requests before I can even set it. I would feel SOOOOO much better if you just commented in this thread that you actually care.

This x1000

[Warlyx]

new characters can now only /tell others once they hit level 15-30 somewhere around there >_> make it a part of the tutorial later in the game

yeah something like that can alleviate somehow the issue , lvl 15 until u can send friend requests, limiting TELL is a no-no in a supposed friendly mmorpg for new players to this genre..

but yeah they run away scared of all that spam, because is annoying as hell.

[Magusrex]

This has really put me in a bad position. I am Master of a small FC of Family and friends. I started going busy, people asked, why? then, how do you it? Ect. Now everyone in my Free Company is busy, we know why we are busy, but it feels wrong, and now busy doesn't mean what it used t mean. It used to mean, "I am trying to get something done, and I unavailable to help" it was almost never used and it was respected, now busy means nothing . I moved tells to the event folder and removed the ding BUT I am now a master crafter and have missed a bunch of requests for help that I would have loved to have responded to. Address this publicly and fix it. Your silence and lack of action appears cowardly.

[Vlady]

Sigh. RMT and botting is only going to get immensely worse. The ban wave on wow has the botters talking about moving to here because of how lax it is according to them. I left wow to get away from the pay to win by botting crowd. They are bad mouth toxic neck breathers that think since they can bot 50 million gil and have teleport hacks and perfect rotation bots they are better then everyone else.

[Morbid]

Sigh. RMT and botting is only going to get immensely worse. The ban wave on wow has the botters talking about moving to here because of how lax it is according to them. I left wow to get away from the pay to win by botting crowd. They are bad mouth toxic neck breathers that think since they can bot 50 million gil and have teleport hacks and perfect rotation bots they are better then everyone else.

The more the merrier; right Squenix?