Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Zabuza]

Alright, so 2650 divided by 64 is: 42 per server... I can tell you for certain I blacklist that amount of accounts in less than a week, because I have to wipe the blacklist every month. These are the spammers who sit there inside Ul'dah spamming away.

Within the span of 3 hours I would have already blacklisted more than 42 accounts on Zalera. These weekly bans are not even making a dent in their numbers. The issue is not even being solved to 1% satisfaction. This topic is over 800 replies now and there is still dev silence. It is as some of the posters have said, they show their lack of care through their silence. Only reason I have remained subbed is to be able to keep adding signatures to the petition. I can't support a company who doesn't give a sliver of concern for their customers. I stopped playing FFXIV a few weeks ago, and won't be buying Heavensward. Literally five minutes it would take them to type a response. You know they have read this, but they say nothing. They are shouting their message loud and clear for us. "Suck it up, it's not going to change anytime soon."

[KisaiTenshi]

Within the span of 3 hours I would have already blacklisted more than 42 accounts on Zalera. These weekly bans are not even making a dent in their numbers. The issue is not even being solved to 1% satisfaction. This topic is over 800 replies now and there is still dev silence. It is as some of the posters have said, they show their lack of care through their silence. Only reason I have remained subbed is to be able to keep adding signatures to the petition. I can't support a company who doesn't give a sliver of concern for their customers. I stopped playing FFXIV a few weeks ago, and won't be buying Heavensward. Literally five minutes it would take them to type a response. You know they have read this, but they say nothing. They are shouting their message loud and clear for us. "Suck it up, it's not going to change anytime soon."

Point of reference is that I'm on Excalibur:

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...06d0909189e479

This information will be updated at the following intervals:
4:00 a.m./ 8:00 a.m./ 1:00 p.m./ 6:00 p.m./ 11:00 p.m. (PDT)

○：Character Creation Possible ×：Character Creation Restricted

- Japan data center
　○ Aegis
　○ Alexander
　○ Anima
　○ Asura
　○ Atomos
　○ Bahamut
　○ Belias
　○ Carbuncle
　○ Chocobo
　○ Durandal
　○ Fenrir
　○ Garuda
　○ Gungnir
　○ Hades
　○ Ifrit
　○ Ixion
　○ Kujata
　○ Mandragora
　○ Masamune
　○ Pandaemonium
　○ Ramuh
　○ Ridill
　○ Shinryu
　○ Tiamat
　○ Titan
　○ Tonberry
　○ Typhon
　○ Ultima
　○ Unicorn
　○ Valefor
　○ Yojimbo
　○ Zeromus

North American/European data center
　○ Adamantoise
　× Balmung
　○ Behemoth
　○ Brynhildr
　○ Cactuar
　× Cerberus
　○ Coeurl
　○ Diabolos
　× Excalibur
　○ Exodus
　○ Faerie
　○ Famfrit
　× Gilgamesh
　○ Goblin
　× Hyperion
　○ Jenova
　× Lamia
　× Leviathan
　× Lich
　○ Malboro
　○ Mateus
　○ Midgardsormr
　○ Moogle
　× Odin
　× Phoenix
　○ Ragnarok
　○ Sargatanas
　× Shiva
　○ Siren
　○ Ultros
　○ Zalera
　× Zodiark

The spam bots tend to not be very frequent until about 2am and then there will be a new one every 5 minutes for a few hours and then as soon as the creation limit gets pegged again, no more spam bots to blacklist for a few hours.

[Magusrex]

Point of reference is that I'm on Excalibur:

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...06d0909189e479


The spam bots tend to not be very frequent until about 2am and then there will be a new one every 5 minutes for a few hours and then as soon as the creation limit gets pegged again, no more spam bots to blacklist for a few hours.

On Exodus they must be making mad accounts during the window because I only play during normal hours, I dont play for that long and I get spam and friend requests non stop. I would also say they have some kind of cheat that lets them know when I log in, because they hit me with a friend invite BEFORE I see my Chr in game EVERY single time I log in, they NEVER miss me not once.

[Orspeth]

When nothing is left but the bots and the RMT, I wonder if they will try and sell to each other or try to dominate the MB over the other bots? Sick of this - I left busy off today for the first time in a long time so I could talk to some real people - nothing has improved.

[Warlyx]

On Exodus they must be making mad accounts during the window because I only play during normal hours, I dont play for that long and I get spam and friend requests non stop. I would also say they have some kind of cheat that lets them know when I log in, because they hit me with a friend invite BEFORE I see my Chr in game EVERY single time I log in, they NEVER miss me not once.

yeah i wonder about this how come as soon as im loading the game (not even see anything yet) i hear the annoying tells and friend request? how are they that fast? , maybe limite search or something , 1 search every 15s or something like that, this isn ffxi search funcion isnt used that much.

[Orspeth]

yeah i wonder about this how come as soon as im loading the game (not even see anything yet) i hear the annoying tells and friend request? how are they that fast? , maybe limite search or something , 1 search every 15s or something like that, this isn ffxi search funcion isnt used that much.

Give me an /anon function, give me the ability to block tells from non-friended people and block friend requests or FIX THIS CRAP SE! Busy is not a good option, nor or what I have suggested here, but they would lessen the annoyance for many.
And to those saying blocking of all friend requests might hinder them - really? Why on earth would you randomly friend request anyone anyway? Talk to them first, ask them to drop busy - then do it. If you don't know them well enough for that - why friend them?

[SpiritTamer]

I have played lots of MMOs in my life. The first one was Everquest when I was 14. Never have I seen so much spam in a game. In WoW I used to get someone sending me spam once every few hours, but on this game it's every few minutes and even as soon as I log in. There really needs to be a right click and report spam ability like there is in WoW. I hardly ever see spam in WoW now.

[Gilben]

(english isn't my main language, so be gentle for any mistakes)

OK, i may have some ideas for SquareEnix :
- first, the sellers/spammers : restrict the free trial account for the /tell and /friend functions at ... at least level 15
- second, the actual botters : see with blizzard how they are done this
- third and made this public : perma BAN of any gil buyer account

[Rizon]

Bayohne, can you confirm for us that this thread is even making its way to the Yoshi-P and the Devs. Thanks

[Rizon]

I am probably jinxing it but I have noticed a huge drop-off in Spams on Hyperion since yesterday. Is there an RMT holiday going on that I don't know about or some other reason that SE is not telling us about? As I turned 68 yesterday and am retired I am in game most of the day and this is noticeable.