Unceasing, relentless daily harassment [RMT]

[RayneLittlewinkle]

Being on Gilgamesh I get one about every other day. Its rare to get two in one day. I didn't know it was a big issue on other servers. I really hope SE does something about this. Prove that they are greedy for money by letting them keep their subs when they are just bots spamming

[RayneLittlewinkle]

They could restrict /tells. For example :

• You can freely /tell people on your friend list
• If you wanna /tell people out of your friend list, you either need 1) to click on their character, 2) to click on their name or 3) Use the /tell command included in Party Finder.
• You can send a /reply without any restriction

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No, Please no they do not need to do this. This gave have enough restrictions as it is. Such as not being able to /tell or even look at your friends list while in a duty. Not being able to freely jump off a cliff, or run across a river because its a shorter route. Having a limit or beast tribe dailies/being able to place things on the market board, Not being able to send anyone a email unless they are on you're friends list..lol the list of silly restrictions goes on.

[Evergrey]

Are we talking about RMT spams? If so I barely get any at all. Been playing for days without a single /tell from one. 2 days ago I got my first /tell from a RMT for a long time, and I was actually surprised that I got one.
I guess some servers have it worse than others.

[Bloodb]

First thing I did was turn off the sound notification ding when recieving tells. That solved my problem of getting annoyed with real money trading spam.

If it bothers you so much that your posting about it and sending in GM tickets just use /busy. Anyone who really needs to communicate with you will see your /busy and can use /fc /say /sh /party /alliance etc...

[Reynhart]

No, Please no they do not need to do this.

How often do you really and meaningfully /tell people out of the restrictions I made, seriously ?

[Khalithar]

Some of the folks need to understand it's way worse on other servers. For example, on Mateus I get an RMT /tell roughly every 10-15 seconds. I had to disable the tells entirely and disable the notification sounds. I tried putting tells on again recently and it was just as bad. Maybe it's not so bad on your servers, but it's just awful on Mateus.

[Rakiria]

How often do you really and meaningfully /tell people out of the restrictions I made, seriously ?

They'll just friend you again, and if you take away the right to friend people for new players people who start playing as a group will be turned away by having no means to communicate. Also, where would the system see the difference? The only thing telling via rightclick does is paste the command in the textbox. The only thing the system cares about when sending it is what the text says, or maybe who sent it to who, but not how the text got there.

[Mael-bess]

I can't believe the amount of people suggesting players to disable functions of the game just to deal with RMT and being perfectly fine with it.
We should not need to disable BASIC functions (yes /tell is a basic and very useful feature) of the game to deal with a problem that shouldn't even be ours to deal with.

The only games i've seen with RMT/bots being a major problem is where the developers are neglecting the game or letting it die, other big titles i've played don't have this issue or they've dealt with it already. FFXIV is a big title game in the MMO industry, i can't understand how this problem has been up for so long, and even worse, how it doesn't seems to be improving.

[Amariel34]

I have a question about RMT. It's more about the gold farmers than the spammers, but I'm curious. Why doesn't SE fix whatever is in the game code that allows farmers to go into the ground, teleport, and other hacks? Wouldn't that help stop them or at least slow them down? Cause then they'd have to deal with landscape mobs like everyone else. Or is it just that hard to figure out where in the code the problem is? I have NO experience with coding, so I honestly don't know if this would be easy or not.

[Derio]

I usually get a RMT about once every 2 minutes. I also get one the moment I log in.