Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Solaria_Luna]

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.

Oh that...I wish that happened too. Or maybe a name filter (set to that arrangement of letters and apostrophes) + a blacklist popup.

[Khalithar]

The RMT issue was a huge turn off for me as a new player. Getting spammed like that makes it a very unpleasant experience for someone just coming in to the game.

[aesteval]

some sorta user controlled filter where we set the words... then just copy and paste the common words they use, i'll play :P don't forget the challenge log block 100 spams and get 10,000 MGP!!! we'll kill the bots for you \^_^/

A user controlled filter with support for regular expression statements would be great for blocking the spam in the log. And a user controlled filter with regular expression support to block friend requests from players with names following patterns.

[aesteval]

You mean postings like this that they do every couple of weeks...

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...922c46b287c736

Too many steps required to report that sort of activity vs the frequency at which it occurs. Takes too much time out of actually playing.

[aesteval]

Yes, go to:

Character Config >> Log Window Settings (on the side) >> Notification Sounds tab (at the top)



From here you can either uncheck "Tell" to turn off sound or change the sound to something lighter and less annoying.

Thanks for sharing. Been playing for a week on PS4 and the options menu are a beast to navigate through with the controller so I haven't dug into them yet. This should help some of the annoyance I experience from this spam (I'm sound sensitive) and I should probably hook up a mouse to dig more into the options.

[odie]

on Balmung, for me, it has been mostly nonexistent…when I was on Lamia though, about once a minute like you are dealing with.

[Gramul]

Hello?
Square?
Are you going to address this at all? This and housing are some of the biggest issues surrounding the game at the moment.
We need a clear game plan, please.

[Haibel]

Hello?
Square?
Are you going to address this at all? This and housing are some of the biggest issues surrounding the game at the moment.
We need a clear game plan, please.

LOL It's so comical to see everybody up in a tissy about text on a screen. SE's game plan is to not say anything, because quite frankly they don't need to.
there are ways to get rid of them without going /busy if you're on a PC.

[Zabuza]

LOL It's so comical to see everybody up in a tissy about text on a screen. SE's game plan is to not say anything, because quite frankly they don't need to.
there are ways to get rid of them without going /busy if you're on a PC.

They don't need to? Why is that? These other "ways" to get rid of the /tells that you speak of, if it's what I think it is, is for one against the ToS, and for two new players are not going to know to do it, which was the main concern of my entire thread to begin with. Do you get how many new players they will drive away with this come Heavensward? They absolutely need to do something about this.

This "text on a screen" is making the /tell channel unusable. People are having to inconvenience themselves just to communicate to one another privately. They have to deal with constant harassment of friend request and garbage /tells if they don't go busy. I made this thread because they have the opportunity of a lifetime right now with Heavensward, with the state the other MMOs are in right now, they can rake in MASSIVE subs if they play this right. I want them to succeed, but this RMT harassment bs is going to put a serious handicap on their western subs.

[Fenral]

I think this post just put us at 100 pages of developer apathy.