Unceasing, relentless daily harassment [RMT]

[Yurimi]

If you mean the RMT spam... yes, it is excessive but Square is doing the best they can given how fast these RMT keep making new account after new account. You said it yourself, you filled your blacklist in less than a week yet still it's an incessant issue. The problem isn't that Square isn't doing anything, they have a team dedicated to just RMT, the problem is that the RMT even has a customer base to make all the efforts they're going to worth it. It's these gil buyers that are to blame. My solution to the RMT spam was to devote my fourth chat tab to only /tell. I can still see if I've received any /tells but it's not clogging any of my more active tabs.

No offence but if you looked at the credits for Heavensward the "team" is approximately 2 whole people and they are not just RMT they are also for any cheating among other things. They could deal with the bot tells easily by making a bot that ban's upon receipt of said tells and set them up in a dummy FC in an inn room so noone has any reason to send them a tell but they havent.... how odd

[Gilraen]

Do roaches have mating seasons?

Yeah, it's called, "When you turn off the lights." That is, when the task force clocks out for the day cause it's an office job for them. People seem to want to think Square's GMs and moderators are some kind of police force when the reality is a good bit more mundane. Love the apt gifs, by the way.

[Evangela]

They should make new characters with level lower than 15 unable to send tell to people outside of their friend list, and also unable to send a friend request.

If new players were invited to start FFXIV by their friend, their friend can send a friend request to them so they can use tell chat.

[MaeIsMean]

What would make it easier to deal with is a simple right click report/temp blacklist option. That way rmt tell bots could be targeted a lot quicker.
Second it could help to have user configurable tell filters, filtering server side isnt quick enough unless SE can make alterations to the filter without general updates.
What would certainly help is an option to limit tells to only people on your friend list.

Yes, to all of this. But also include tells from LS and FC, so I don't have to friendslist all of them too. (and while you're at it, allow a unique nameplate color for FC, pretty please!)

[Aryalandi]

Yeah, it's called, "When you turn off the lights." That is, when the task force clocks out for the day cause it's an office job for them. People seem to want to think Square's GMs and moderators are some kind of police force when the reality is a good bit more mundane. Love the apt gifs, by the way.

Ha XD thank you. It has been forever since I've had an excuse to dig that post up.

[Andrea]

I agree that the RMT spam is annoying and should be doing everything they can to remove it.

But to call the game "nearly unplayable" is clearly a huge exaggeration.

[Igziabeher]

thread doesn't need 3000 .gifs, thanks though.

[Aryalandi]

thread doesn't need 3000 .gifs, thanks though.

Yes it does, sadly i could not find that many.
You are welcome though.
This topic is still a thing,
so my thing is thus also still a thing.

[Eul]

say auto banning or jailing anyone who say "www."

Well www is Japanese's "lol" so it's hard to make it auto ban :/ ( For more specifically w is lol and www is like lmao)

[AlphaFox]

Well www is Japanese's "lol" so it's hard to make it auto ban :/

Really? I would have never guessed that, but mainly I assume you get the idea, anything that even hints at selling but they will find ways around it. =/