Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Daenarys_Targaryen]

...so reading the new patch notes and I see to combat RMT you can now only make 5 friend requests per day. I do not think that helps at all, were talking about the constant shouts and /tell this doesn't really affect any of the major issues everyone is talking about.

[BreathlessTao]

...so reading the new patch notes and I see to combat RMT you can now only make 5 friend requests per day. I do not think that helps at all, were talking about the constant shouts and /tell this doesn't really affect any of the major issues everyone is talking about.

Well, no, flurries of random unprompted friend requests have happened and are still happening sporadically, so this does help that. One side of it anyway - it might backfire though and RMTs might just set more of their characters to "friend request mode", but... let's hope not.

That said - it is somewhat underwhelming that here is a thread that's more than half a year old, about a very wide-spread problem that's about as old as the game itself, with more than 1400 posts in it, and more than a few (quite rational, I might add) suggestions for tools to combat the gilseller spam... and then when we finally do get a reply, finally do get something done, it's really just a small detail in the big picture.

[Bebekurenai]

...so reading the new patch notes and I see to combat RMT you can now only make 5 friend requests per day. I do not think that helps at all, were talking about the constant shouts and /tell this doesn't really affect any of the major issues everyone is talking about.

My thoughts too. This also could be a lot better handled. As BreathlessTao says, it can backfire and just make RMT make even more characters. Seeing the spammers are all level 1, one could just restrict any comunication to be from lvl2 or 5 onwards. It'll buy some time until RMT level all their spammers to lvl2 and creates a hassle for them. Creating more characters will be less time efficient for them. Also don't allow anyone to send tells to more than one recipient at once, I don't think that's too hard to implement? And who legitally would send tells to more than one simultaneously in a real converstation? And I keep asking myself, how is it possible that RMTs have millions of characters and create non stop while I can't fit a single new alt into my server? Makes you think...