What has S.E. said about the suggestion of adding right-click > Report system?

[Asterforest]

It would be a great addition.

[Zeonx]

It would be a great addition.

How would it be great?

Okay give you a example.

They report, that RMT gets banned, they make a new character and spam some more, the report button would do jack squat. The only way to stop them is to hinder their ability to message people and send invites.

Once that is done what can they possibly do?

Reporting them isn't stopping the issue, we have a report button people have used it and problem still exist. Tell me how great it would be? Cause I am not seeing it working.

Friend, Ls and Fc private messaging should only work this should be a option by checking a box. this way its optional.

Same with the friends invites option by box click on or off if you want a friends invite.

What can a RMT do then? I shut /tells off in game I don't get a single message but also I cannot see others tells anymore which sometimes is a problem but better than getting spammed 100+ times a day.

Its funny cousin said FFXI setup a filter a long time ago and FFXI is a old game and FFXIV cannot catch up in standards to a old game is pretty laughable.

[Malzian]

How would it be great?

Okay give you a example.

They report, that RMT gets banned, they make a new character and spam some more, the report button would do jack squat. The only way to stop them is to hinder their ability to message people and send invites.

Once that is done what can they possibly do?

Reporting them isn't stopping the issue, we have a report button people have used it and problem still exist. Tell me how great it would be? Cause I am not seeing it working

You aren't seeing reports working for 2 reasons: 1) The current report system is a royal pain to use so most people either just ignore or blacklist and never bother to spend the time to report them (seriously, if it takes even 2 minutes to report them then it only takes 15 messages to waste a half hour of your time, and you can get more than that in a shorter span of time). 2) The investigation processes SE uses doesn't target the sellers but the 'bank' characters, so it takes longer for things to get done since they have to track them down.

This option would actually go a long way to solve the problem. When it takes just as long to report and block an RMT as it does for them to shout/tell their ads, then more people will report and more accounts will be tracked down. When LotRO launched the RMT spam was horrendous, a month later they introduced the 'Report as gold seller' option on right click and within a few months... blissful peace and quiet, so it does work... If it's done right.

[Amiaze]

How would it be great?

A lot of RMT bots aren't being reported enough to rank high on the priorities list. I've personally seen the same bots sitting below a bridge in New Gridania for weeks straight without action being taken. I try to report each and every bot I see, but when the RMT really picks up, it's nigh impossible. Being that I'm on PS4, it's harder for me to copy and paste a name if my chat log is scrolling due to having so many RMT messages come in at once. I've done it before, but it meant I'd effectively stopped *playing* the game and was just standing around reporting bots for a few minutes.

But they did get banned.

I feel that reporting is sort of useful, but it's just putting bandaids on a wound that's far too big. What we need is a filter system. I hate having to block all tells because I do receive a good number of them from legitimate players who aren't in my FC and aren't on my friends list. And I really don't want to miss out on having a good run with a new player just because Wsgtrsnu Gnujiewsl wouldn't leave me alone.

[Ilitsa]

How would it be great?

Okay give you a example.

They report, that RMT gets banned, they make a new character and spam some more, the report button would do jack squat.

Ignoring the fact that there is more to report than just RMT.

[Zeonx]

Ignoring the fact that there is more to report than just RMT.

Really because if I am ignoring that fact, then you are ignoring the fact that there are only 3 STF members working on banning the RMT and even if you do report them, they aren't going to ban them faster than they can create.

You are still going to see spam regardless of the report button and just like the old report button its gonna get old fast.

Because by the time 3 of them check out the details of that RMT to ban them and go to the next 3 those 3 have already made 3 more characters.

Best option is what I said earlier if you can silence them they will vanish its the only way.

People say that report button will work, it didn't work in FFXI and we had more GM support there it kept going until SE made a filter and even region blocked, A lot of people reported back in FFXI and still couldn't get them to vanish is my point.

When you people say oh this will work no its not gonna work you guys go for a temp fix and not a solution and silencing them is better the filter in ffxi silenced them and guess what they vanished I hardly even seen them.

What was left of the RMT bot groups were slowly dying off and eventually were gone.