Scary monster is back...?

[skyfox]

Got like. three tells since HW started and no friend requests. It's great.

I'm not getting any friend request but i'm getting random tells from dtmftkdgnlxhs ajiwoeeww or tdmaieiw wweieaa.

[T2teddy]

No friends reqs and only 9 tells since June 23

[Naunet]

What glorious no-RMT fantasy land are you people living in???

[Gralna]

They died down for a while on Sargatanas after HW launched, but for the last week or so, they've been spamming more frequently, though still not as bad as it was pre HW.

[Lusavari]

Part of what helps control RMT activity is how full your server is. After HW launched, all servers were full just about all the time, and it was harder for RMT to get into especially the larger servers like Gilgamesh or Balmung. The login queues also slowed things down. Now that people aren't logging in as much, they're resurging.

[Nadirah]

What glorious no-RMT fantasy land are you people living in???

Servers with character creation restrictions and JP realms.

[Elaria]

On Balmung not gotten RMT since before HW

Same. I nearly forgot they existed until this thread.

[Radacci]

On Balmung not gotten RMT since before HW

can confirm this.
not even when i'm not in HW areas - so i guess they gave up? cause it's not like they gonna spend all that time to get to HW, where most ppl are, just to get deleted.

[AlphaFox]

You guys are also, as stated, in servers that are so popular its hard for even new people to create a character. Of course the RMT is going to have trouble creating tell bots there :P

[LineageRazor]

They've been around for every single moment this game has been live. The frequency was the only thing that varied, but rest assured, SE has actively tried to do as little as possible to stop their rein of terror upon player QoL.

Actually, the fact that the frequency varies is the best evidence that SE DOES combat the problem. If SE did nothing at all, the stream would be constant and continuous.

Each time SE implements a fix (such as removing the ability to /tell from new characters), there's a lull while the RMT figure out a way around the issue. Then they're back in force!

There are certainly solutions that players have suggested that SE hasn't tried, but that's mostly because the players' so-called "solutions" are mind-numbingly stupid and self-centered.