Okay now the botting is getting a little out of hand...

[Kaiserdrache]

They could do somthing about bit in a very simple but effective way, all those retards that use bots for rmt reasons would intstantly have no reason to exist anymore, if the game would give the player full complete power over deciding

- add the feature of a customizable chat filter into which players can add words, that if they get written by someone in chat, then gets everything they said not shown to you
- Disable trial accounts completely from using any chat, you want to chat? Buy the whole game first!
- Give players the option that in general all chat gets blocked from others, if a person is not either your frriend, guild member or group member
- Add Phasing to the towns, that updates the instances of the towns based on characters MSQ progression, bots dont play the games story, so if they never progress, this one here is the poo for the flies that turns into a death trap, becaus, everyone that will be in a town of absolute zero msq progression will most likely be a rmt botter/ cheating farm bot, making it easy to detect them.


All this together should be a powerful help for real players to stop it from getting disturbed by rmt spammers

[TheMightyMollusk]

- Disable trial accounts completely from using any chat, you want to chat? Buy the whole game first!

RMT bots do use full accounts. Otherwise they couldn't actually give their gil to the buyer. They're usually bought with stolen credit info or fraudulent cards, but that doesn't really help us.

[Kaiserdrache]

RMT bots do use full accounts. Otherwise they couldn't actually give their gil to the buyer. They're usually bought with stolen credit info or fraudulent cards, but that doesn't really help us.

I know that this one alone is no solution, but together with tye other things it makes botting n rmt spamming alot mor difficult to impossible and massively less attractive.
Yes, that one thing can be circumvented, but also only with criminal energy of making no stop at even crossing the jail line of fraud or even stealing

The point is, rmt spammers n cheat botters won't be stoppable only nwith 1 or 2 partwise to fully circumventable solutions and just only banning trial accounts and stolen accounts, thats like scratching on the tip of n iceberg and wondering yourself, why the ice doesn't get lesser, when the ice practically regrows back xxx times faster, than you can remove it or stop it from regrowing.

You can stop it only, if you destroy the issue immediately at its root by a multitude of player and accountbased measuments against rmt n cheating, that help in detecting rule violating accounts faster and help players to totally isolate themself out of reach from rmt spammers, because thats the sole purpose why they exist - the user of the bot wants to make only cheap advertising, that many people ingame get to see this spam crap.

So what happens, if you take away from a flame (Spammer) the access to oxygen (Players they want to advertise)? Right, the flame will stop to exist, because wheres no oxygen, can exist also no flame, spammers will lose their interest in FF14, if they absolutely can't reach anymore any players with their garbage, because players got powerful tools to their hands to decide over it who can even chat to them.

If those spammers are whether my friend, my guildie or in my group, alone such a strong chat filter will cut down rmt spammers by approximately 90%, which will instantly not be able to spam theit shit anymore because they will basically spam only with themself, as nobody else will see what those bots have spammed, it gets just filtered out due to not fulfilling the requirements to ignore your personal chat settings, if you decide for youself, that only your friends for example should be able to chat with you.
Could be only circumvented by stealing an account of a friend of yours.

Is it an extreme radical solution? Yes, is it effective? YES! Deserve players to be fully able to decide over it who can chat with them? HELL YEEEES!!!

PS: these options are naturally the most powerful filters possible, players should naturally know too as well, that such powerful filters have naturally also their own disadvantage of making the game instantly extreme silent for you too by their counterside of forcing you first to enable manually each player first to become able to chat with you, for example by forming a group, or by making a player temporarely your friend
Such tools mean more personal constant chat organization for those who want to have everywhere in the game anytime guaranteed silence from rmt spammers.