Petition: RMT tell blocking options for players

[Nasibihc]

tl;dr in the end.

I have seen many threads where people are complaining about the spam tells they receive from RMT, some even claiming that if this does NOT stop, they will even quit the game. Honestly, I haven't thought of quitting the game because of this because there's always the /busy option to filter out all the tells, but this isn't really a solution to this problem since it also prevents our actual in-game friends from contacting us or anyone else with an actual message to us.

I have also seen various ideas and can personally think of many ideas to deal with this problem, but no action has been seen from SE regarding this. Here I was hoping for the 2.55 patch to bring a change to this matter, but I guess that was also just a dream.

It makes me sad and concerned to think that some people who find these RMT spamming even more offensive than I do, actually want to quit the game because of it. This honestly can't go on like this. Does SE actually realize how severe this issue is? When ever there's an issue that makes players want to quit the game, alarms should go off in the game development office to stop that from happening at once, but they haven't done anything to this since the start of this game 2 years ago.

What bothers me the most is SE's initiative on dealing with these for the better of the players. Surely they are banning all the accounts that either sell or buy, but that's not enough and it's not the main problem the players are experiencing because of them.

It is our GAMING PEACE!

These RMT's are invading just that with their spam tells that flood our chat logs with messages containing hearts and stars and what not icons and website addresses.

In all honesty, this has to stop!


Here's a few simple, but effective ideas how to deal with this problem and the side effects:

1) Blocking tells from people that aren't on our friends list, our FC or any of our linkshells.

2) Blocking tells/say/shout messages from people that are under level x so new lvl 1 to x characters that RMT use can't message us or
public chat before a certain level that WE get to choose from 1 to 50.

3) Also blocking friend requests from RMT or from anyone else and letting only us befriend someone if we really want to do so.

tl;dr:

Sign this petition by liking this post if you DO NOT want to get tell spammed with advertising messages from RMT and want a proper response from SE on whether they are planning to add tell blocking options or not and what are they actually planning to do with this problem.

We just want to enjoy a spam free MMO. This isn't supposed to be Final Spamtasy XIV.