Goldseller Party invite

[Laurima]

Trial accounts cannot invite people to a party.

pretty sure since seeing someone on trial on the novice network ask them to party 2 trials up so they could run a dungeon together.

RMT does pay for accounts.

think it's been ever since they severely limited the free trial options which used to include /tell /shout /invite to party.

[RockGodOne]

Prior to 3.4, I'd get Tells from RMTs every 5-10 mins. Post 3.4, I think I've got 1 Tell from an RMT. I've also only got like a total of 4 party invites from them, and I play way more than most people.
I don't mean to sound like the old man but, you have it easy now lol. I think that's a gross exaggeration of every 5 mins.

[Shirai]

Prior to 3.4, I'd get Tells from RMTs every 5-10 mins. Post 3.4, I think I've got 1 Tell from an RMT. I've also only got like a total of 4 party invites from them, and I play way more than most people.
I don't mean to sound like the old man but, you have it easy now lol. I think that's a gross exaggeration of every 5 mins.

I am notorious for never logging out, and it probably differs per server but I can also still count the times I have received an invitation on one hand.
At least on the times where I'm actually playing the game.

Sure, they're annoying, but I'm with you on having seen much, much worse and not just in FF-XIV.

[Nightlistic]

Now this is absolutely annoying as all get out!! On Saturday I logged in and in the first 10min I was invited over 20 times while trying to do my beast tribe in Sea of Clouds. Its gotten so bad that I'm having to either leave my chocobo out or stay in a party after a hunt to avoid getting these invites. My blacklist is so long it has a scroll bar thanks to these scam artiest.

[Zeonx]

This is what needs to be done.

No .com names can be made.

No Linkshell names can be made with .com also able to shut off linkshell invites as a option same with Free company.

Because you know they are going to be doing this next.

[The_Shang]

I haven't gotten an invite yet because I'm in a party pretty much all the time when I play, but I've actually seen invite bots standing near the aetheryte in Limsa. They aren't even trying to be subtle about it anymore.

[St0rmchild]

The easiest solution to dodge unwanted party invites is to open your user info panel and set your Status to "Busy" which automatically declines all party invites ... neh ?

[Jas710]

The devs now know how to implement the report menu command. They just need to take that same code and implement it everywhere. Problem solved. The end.

[Niwashi]

think it's been ever since they severely limited the free trial options which used to include /tell /shout /invite to party.

Free trial accounts were never able to use /tell or /shout. (I'm not sure about /invite.) The RMT companies used paid accounts for /tell spam until the reporting feature was added that gave us a chance to get them banned too fast to be worth the cost of replacing. (They use free trial accounts for the /say spam, though. For that, it doesn't matter as much how fast they get banned, since they can be replaced without the cost.)

Further back, they used to use Friend requests (in somewhat the manner they're using /invite now). That was only popular with them when it was possible to be done with Free Trial accounts, but pretty much went away when SE changed the Free Trial rules to block sending Friend requests.

Now that the reporting change means they don't want to waste their paid accounts on /tell spam, they're using them for stuff that's harder to report (and therefore less likely to get reported). I'm not entirely sure why they decided on /invite rather than the Friend requests they used to use (since now either would require paid accounts), but maybe they decided it's more useful when they get through to be in a party with their customer than to be Friended.

[Niwashi]

This is what needs to be done.

No .com names can be made.

No Linkshell names can be made with .com

And this should be easy enough. Everyone says the reason text filtering in chat doesn't work very well is that the spam will use weird characters in place of the normal ones to show something that looks like their URL but doesn't exactly match.

With these invites, they're limited to putting their ad into their name. Since names are already limited to just letters and a few select special characters (like apostrophe), they don't have the same ability to obfuscate their names and still get their message through. It should be easy enough for SE to block RMT site names from being valid in character (or linkshell) names.

also able to shut off linkshell invites as a option same with Free company.

Because you know they are going to be doing this next.

Agreed. (And being RMT's next haven is only one of the reasons for wanting this part. Even legitimate invites can be annoying to those who don't want them.)