nearly 2 years later...

[SpiritMuse]

actually, Cerberus got almost RMT free since Heavensward. It's really rare that you get tells, even in the old areas. So as for that, seems that Steps of Faith are still a great RMT filter.

It is rare, but I actually got two tells today. I reported one, but the support system bugged out after that so I couldn't report the other.

[Voldemort]

You know it's bad on Hyperion when there's gil selling in Idyllshire.... like, someone at the RMT factory had to go through all of that storyline, dungeons, trials, queue for all this content, and level up enough to even get there.
Without anyone getting suspicious of the random name and reporting them before that point.

And there's quite a bit of them I've had to block there recently. So this isn't some isolated incident.

[ErzaScar]

And the gil spammers still exist... wth. is there any way i can combat these guys? My chat box is getting blown up by tells it's really annoying and i can't hardly tell who is talking to me at times.

Does SE just not care?

it took square about 7 years before finaly found a good method of stoping majority of RMT activity on FF11.

if your playing on anythng other then ps3 u can seperate ur chat box boxes so more then 1 on screen.
i use 3. 1 for social focus. 1 for combat focus. and 1 "tiny" chat window for hunts/tells because i dont use them much but both are still used
turning off the /tell sound chime is also a big help

[Velisra]

I used to set myself to /busy when I logged in, but since I put the Tells in a separate chat tab long ago and I never look at them anyway, I finally quit bothering with the /busy.

Let the RMT jerks spam me and waste their time. It makes me happy that they're wasting their time sending me tells and they'll never get anything out of it.

I suppose that's twisted justice, but there it is.

I do wish that SE would fix the problem, but I doubt they will. So call me a cynic as well as a dispenser of twisted justice. I'm good with that.

[tymora]

What RMT? (Balmung)

[Linadae]

RMT? What are RMT? Are they still around?

*looks at server*

Oh right...they can't get on Balmung....*snicker* I haven't heard a tell since early in 2.0.

[Mixae]

Brynhildr isn't too bad. I don't know if I'm allowed to mention Guildwork? If you use that and set up chat filter patterns (you can google to find good one), you will never get another RMT spam and don't have to turn off tells.

[Azper]

Something appears to have gone horribly wrong today, as I have received 14 tells in the span of 5 hours.

Wake up, SE! Someone's asleep at the wheel again!

[Dualblade]

Since yesterday actually, Gilgamesh's walls seem to have come down. To the defense!

Also the latest one I got had me talking to myself wondering why it didn't use the random name generator like all the other rmts I have gotten. Atleast looks nicer.

[Shurrikhan]

Kind of sad that I can no longer point at Blade & Soul's every-3-days anti-RMT patches that were doing great for a long time. The RMT messages are now utterly unreadable as to get through the filter, and yet they still spam. I can at least point out that Blade & Soul probably took more action on any given week after NA/EU release than FFXIV has taken in two years though.