Customer service fail

[Welsper59]

For the longest time SE actually was taking RMT sites to court, especially back in FFXI. It's a problem that's hard to deal with. The advertisers are a low cost thing for RMT. They make a new character that used to never leave the opening instance, now I think they have to at least get them to a certain level. You're better off blacklisting or going on busy status because at any given moment there's at least 10 RMT sites advertising, each one with several bots. In the time it takes to ban one, they can make 10 more bots to take its place. It's a hydra. Instead of banning them as they pop up, it's more effective to pursue other methods. The problem is, you just can't eliminate the issue. There's a 1 tell per second limit in place to slow them down. There's the tell level limit. They have a chat filter set to catch spam, which is why RMT advertisements constantly get more convoluted. It's a problem more complex that it seems on the surface level.

That's why a lot of people aren't looking to "stop" them, but rather to give us (that means them too) a way to filter manually filter out things. Even if it meant to block all incoming /tell from non-Friend's List/LS/FC type of filtering, it'd be something and it'd be optional. Allowing us a far larger Blacklist would also help, and is also a very simple QoL change... while we're at it, maybe add in an option to delete all Blacklist names at once if we want to. Again, SIMPLE fixes that give us the power to mitigate these unstoppable annoyances if we choose to do so. Hell, those suggestions are likely easier to do than having a right-click report system lol. Yet here we are, without them.

Only by not supporting RMT and not buying gil will this problem ever go away permanently. Sadly, all too many people want a quick-fix of cash because they're too lazy to earn it.

RMT activity has become an established (corrupt) business. Even with little to no customers from said game, they'll still be here because it doesn't cost them a thing to be on these games (stolen credit cards, hacked accounts, etc). Their presence is no different than a "legit" player misbehaving or cheating. Similarly, the people who buy from them is not something you can just stop. Telling people to stop doing something bad, is like telling murderers, rapists, thieves, etc to stop doing what they do. Wanting devs to find a way to prevent those people from doing it, is like telling the cops to prevent the person from committing said crime. We know that things would be better without the bad, but it's here and it's not going anywhere.