Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Solaria_Luna]

This still held up again last night. I was on for about three hours or so and only got a dozen RMT /tell messages and one of their Friend requests. Still an annoyance when they do happen, but nowhere near the flood of constant harassment I've usually been seeing.

(Coeurl server)

Yep I think this happened to me right during the ending cutscene for the story quest that requires you to do The Stone Vigil. I think I received about 5-10 between the final cutscene for that quest and the rest of that chain.

[Cakekizy]

I'm so glad the 15 people that bought gil who are just as bad as those that advertise/sell gil only get temporary bans. Clearly SE doesn't care about the integrity of the game.

Depends how long the temporary ban is. A 5 year ban would be just as effective as a permanent ban, even though it's technically temporary.

[Barimu]

Depends how long the temporary ban is. A 5 year ban would be just as effective as a permanent ban, even though it's technically temporary.

That's the problem though, we don't know how long a temp ban is. If they informed us it was 5 years that would be fine, but because they leave it for interpretation it could be a month or 3 months for all we know.

[Fuma]

It'd be like unnecessarily leaving the doors and windows open, be annoyed about the dust/bugs/etc that frequently get in, clean the area and kill any bugs that are seen, be annoyed again about the dust/bugs/etc that get in immediately after, clean everything again, and repeat for eternity. Would you really think highly of people like that? LOL. The solutions are pretty obvious there. Shut the doors/windows (not the best option if you'd like to let in some fresh air), install screens to help filter out frequent annoyances (... *cough*), and so on. Apply that to the game, how you'd like.

So block anyone that tries to get in then? Yes that'd fix the problem since we'd eventually weed out all the RMT buyers/sellers but no new member could get in either since RMT get into the game in the same manner that we do.

[Niadissa]

Still nothing, huh? Starting to think that we are not going to hear anything at all until after the expansion, if at all.

[DreadRabbit]

Will report on Zalera where I had gotten about 3-5 gil bot friend requests per day that's dropped to maybe 1 every other day. And no, I don't have busy up. The /tells...have quieted down somewhat. I don't know if that's SE or if that's partly pre-expac dry spell and they know not many people are looking. They're still there and they pop up frequently, but it is noticeably less. Which surprised me considering it was the weekend.

On Zalera in particular it seems the majority of the spamming ad bots are kidnapped/hacked characters because they do have legit names. When I first joined they were the typical asdfhlsh mess.

[Gunspec]

During the few times I've logged into my server over the last month for gold saucer shenanigans, I've received a dozen friend requests from RMT players with essentially the same name. "Website'com Sellgil###" has been the pattern of every single name. Do they even HAVE a name filter anymore?

They REALLY need to let me blacklist incoming friend requests, I'm sick of this garbage.

[Rizon]

Quite obviously everyone here is mistaking SE for someone who gives a damn. They don't. The only posters that get responses are White Knight/Fanboys and only from the mildest fluff pieces. Serious players need to take their concerns elsewhere.

[Solaria_Luna]

During the few times I've logged into my server over the last month for gold saucer shenanigans, I've received a dozen friend requests from RMT players with essentially the same name. "Website'com Sellgil###" has been the pattern of every single name. Do they even HAVE a name filter anymore?

They REALLY need to let me blacklist incoming friend requests, I'm sick of this garbage.

For that last part, no...if they did that every new player's (completely legitimate) friendlist would be empty because they're all blacklisted because of these gil selling characters.

[Gunspec]

if they did that every new player's (completely legitimate) friendlist would be empty

I don't mean automatically blacklisted. I mean, if I get a friend request from "SirRMT McSellGOLD", I should be able to click the name and blacklist immediately and cancel the friendlist attempt in-progress. As it is, I have to click "no" on initial friend request pop-up, open friend tab, click "decline friend request", and then click the name again to blacklist.

Quite obviously everyone here is mistaking SE for someone who gives a damn. They don't.

All it would take is for this level of shenanigans to suddenly occur on Japanese servers or in situations where the developers themselves are involved. Get players complaining about it in Japanese press, and I can guarantee there would be a change. The current FFXIV team is quite different from the FFXIII hallway simulator team.