Square Enix, what is your plan to stop RMT advertisers sending party invites?

[Alistaire]

Why does this even need addressing? It's not exactly an invasive tactic.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Why does this even need addressing? It's not exactly an invasive tactic.

It's still spam

[Mimilu]

Why does this even need addressing? It's not exactly an invasive tactic.

Because spamming RMT-advertisements is annoying.
And decreasing RMT-spam without it being a detriment to the rest of us is always a good thing. :-D

[Maero]

Why does this even need addressing? It's not exactly an invasive tactic.

Are you kidding me? It's annoying as hell.
I used to just get shouts but past few days i keep getting part invites from these jerks.
One should not need to set status to busy to avoid this, since from time to time i get tells from new players and i help them out

[Aerish]

Is milice suppose to be militia?
I don't know if we should be giving players that kind of power or encouraging witch hunts... >x>
Plus, that would make me curious as to where/what our subscriptions are going to if they can't hire more GMs to monitor such things... >x>
Are we in .hack now?

It worked well on my previous game, those community helpers where able to take care of request for bot/spammers, manage their own mini games/ forum events and help new players. of couse an apply to GMs is required and not evryone can get access to it, since it ll ask some IRL skills ( writing and spelling correctly in diff langages)

[Pintsized]

Why does this even need addressing? It's not exactly an invasive tactic.

It's annoying and easily prevented by even the most cursory GM activity, you can spot them easily using Player Search and providing us an option to auto-reject Party invites (and also FC invites which I also find aggravating) has to be a trivial bit of coding to add considering there are already several comparable options such as auto-skip CSes, etc.

[Vaeria]

Not that me is playing devil's advocate but ya kinda gotta respect the tenacity of gil sellers to push their wares lol. As long as there are means of one player communicating with another, they'll find a way. Ive just come to accept it as part of mmo-life. Just b-list em as usual and keep going. Ive noticed that there are a LOT less pt inviters than other methods used thankfuly though.

[JCharms]

I mean they could make a toggle option along the lines of "Not accepting party invites" I guess. But /busy will help in the short term at least. I can already foresee people forgetting to turn the toggle off though.

The thing is, these RMT companies are *really* good at what they do. They're excellent at finding loopholes and workarounds. Patch one hole and they'll find another that people didn't even consider. It's almost amazing.

This if from the other rmt invite post I put up.. Those are options in SWTOR


On your second point, yeah, they always find a way, but I would hope that its never used as an excuse to not do anything.

[KungPaoChicken]

I'm honestly amazed how can they send me invites while I'm doing fates far from the main city.. There's like legit no one nearby and my friends list is empty

I wish there's an option to remove the random party invites..I tried looking for it at the settings menu.. ;-;

[Claviusnex]

All SE has to do is allow us to mark ourselves as not searchable. This way our names wouldn't show up in the Player Search facility which is what the RMT spammers parse to send their invites and in previous time /tell. A not searchable setting would also allow us to still have all of the social interaction functions available that you lose with /busy.