RMT is now using party invites with their url as a char name

[Pondera]

You may as well ask how we still have people on the streets dealing drugs, despite the laws we have that make that sort of thing illegal.

Except for the fact that drug sales ARE illegal, yet RMT is not for whatever reason. These salesmen are brazen, have no respect for the business rules set by MMOs, or for the countless people who have been banned for using them in their wake. They go out of their way to be annoying, and I cannot understand why they have not been sued out of existence yet.

I mean, this latest evolution of their tactics after we were SO CLOSE to being rid of them forever just illustrates that the past methods of dealing with these parasites are not working. At least, not for any great length of time. Sorry to say, but it is true. They will never ever stop. Maybe it's time for something a bit more heavy handed?

[Paladinleeds]

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You sue, they'll just declare bankruptcy, and then start off in another place. These people will use every available legal loophole to their advantage.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

How do you sue someone who could be in a different country with different laws from yours?

[Pondera]

How do you sue someone who could be in a different country with different laws from yours?

*dejected sigh* yeah...I guess you're right. This is the kind of legal loopholes that are opened with the advent of modern technology. People can just reach across entire continents to bother and harass people with the click of a few buttons, whether they're hawking overpriced packs at RMT sites, telemarketers, or "Not Steve" from Microsoft technical supporting calling to "warn me about viruses" on my computer.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

*dejected sigh* yeah...I guess you're right. This is the kind of legal loopholes that are opened with the advent of modern technology. People can just reach across entire continents to bother and harass people with the click of a few buttons, whether they're hawking overpriced packs at RMT sites, telemarketers, or "Not Steve" from Microsoft technical supporting calling to "warn me about viruses" on my computer.

It's just another fact of life we all have to deal with. Square is doing what they can, but it's always going to be a cat and mouse game.

[Claviusnex]

I just received three of these today. I was AFK for the first one and about 5 minutes after the invite timed out a second request came in. I declined, added the id to my blacklist and reported it the old fashioned way. About an hour later I got a new invite from the same RMT spammer who did nothing more than create a new id with a different last name. The best thing to me would be for SE to add profile options that allow me to choose whether I want to reject invites of the various types. Being forced to use \busy is kind of like using as sledge hammer to drive a nail to hang a picture on the wall. It's overkill that stops other communication functions I want to work such as tells or ready checks.

[VirusChris]

Got my first party invite from one of them yesterday... blacklisted the dude as I couldn't report them.

Well I'm still having an enjoyable experience, but I hope this gets curbbed soon enough.

[Claviusnex]

... blacklisted the dude as I couldn't report them.

You have to use System->Support Desk->Contact Us and select Report Cheating then enter the information manually.

[Velhart]

Its like these RMT have a board room meeting and go "Okay so they found a way to keep us away in /tell's. What method can we use next to be as humanly annoying as possible?"

Thus making their names their URL and inviting us was born. I have gotten nearly 10 invites since this morning from different RMT.

We need a feature to hit the RMT button outside of /tell's. So they can go back to find out how to be annoying as hell next.

[SaitoHikari]

They need to ban them faster. Even though what they're doing now is very intrusive, names can only be used once. At some point, they'll be forced to modify their names so much that they'll be largely illegible.

That's what I realized when I got hit by a few of these in Sarg today and I couldn't even make out what they were even trying to advertise.

(Alternatively, add a function where people lower than a certain player-defined level cannot invite you to a party, excluding people in your linkshells/FC/friends list. I doubt there are level 60 advertising bots running around. If they literally make level 60 characters just to bypass such a restriction, that's a valuable character that can't be used to farm gil. Two birds with one stone.)