Why can't we have the same anti-spam feature that WoW has?

[Sacred-Oblivion]

They also made it where they were it was required to be level 10 on their character to whisper.

I know that this statement is false for during the time I played. I can't say if WoW has this implemented now, but if it does then they did it for another reason because stopping low lvl chars from whispering wasn't necessary to stop RMT spam during the time I played.

[SeekerScorpio]

I know that this statement is false for during the time I played. I can't say if WoW has this implemented now, but if it does then they did it for another reason because stopping low lvl chars from whispering wasn't necessary to stop RMT spam during the time I played.

they implemented this during early cataclysm... they may have taken it out when the whole panda expansion came out, but definitely was the case then, was trying to whisper friends while starting on twinks.... yeah nope. It got to the point where a lot of them were botting to 10 and took the same path route. Hell I remember making a character in northshire (starting human location) and seeing them take the exact path all the time to level... it was funny see a good amount vanish after the 1st or 2nd quest.

[Sacred-Oblivion]

they implemented this during early cataclysm... they may have taken it out when the whole panda expansion came out, but definitely was the case then, was trying to whisper friends while starting on twinks.... yeah nope. It got to the point where a lot of them were botting to 10 and took the same path route. Hell I remember making a character in northshire (starting human location) and seeing them take the exact path all the time to level... it was funny see a good amount vanish after the 1st or 2nd quest.

Are you sure you weren't playing on a Free Trial account at that time? The trial accounts have certain limitations, and iirc the inability to send tells is one of them.

[fixitman]

They also made it where they were it was required to be level 10 on their character to whisper.

Yep, that started around the same time they made it F2P up to level 20(?).

They also gave players the option to choose what level someone had to be in order to send them a tell. This occurred sometime around WotLK launch. The option could be adjusted at any time the player chose to do so.

I've been asking for this option in FF14 ARR for a couple months now. I'm guessing SE is ignoring my requests because they think it will reduce RMT reports. It won't reduce my reports, because I stopped wasting my time on them after 6 months of doing so. RMT is just as bad as it was at launch, the only thing that changed was their switch to a more personal approach....

[Gerolan]

Yep, that started around the same time they made it F2P up to level 20(?).

They also gave players the option to choose what level someone had to be in order to send them a tell. This occurred sometime around WotLK launch. The option could be adjusted at any time the player chose to do so.

I've been asking for this option in FF14 ARR for a couple months now. I'm guessing SE is ignoring my requests because they think it will reduce RMT reports. It won't reduce my reports, because I stopped wasting my time on them after 6 months of doing so. RMT is just as bad as it was at launch, the only thing that changed was their switch to a more personal approach....

Personal approach, you mean the "hey how are you? By the way buy..."
I swear every time I see an rmt spam another hair goes grey, I will be white by November

[Nikita]

I'm still patiently waiting for addons, in WoW one of my favorites was BadBoy which filtered all RMT tells from your log and automatically reported them.

[DragonFlyy]

I'm still patiently waiting for addons, in WoW one of my favorites was BadBoy which filtered all RMT tells from your log and automatically reported them.

Sadly from what I have heard (all rumor of course) is that addons in FFXIV might just be interfacing skinning.

[Nikita]

Sadly from what I have heard (all rumor of course) is that addons in FFXIV might just be interfacing skinning.

All I've really heard about addon implementation was the following:

Sonomaa (BG): In the 2.0 PDFs, addons were highlighted as something you want to see happen. Tanaka said the same about addons early in XIV's development but we never saw anything come out from it. Will you be releasing a developer kit to help create new addons for the game and show you're fully supported in evaluating and balancing addons? I know one of the most asked ones is a parser for people who like to min/max their damage, and just customizing the screen to look more like what players want.

Square-Enix: Rather than XML or LUA, like World of Warcraft is using, we're thinking of provide this in Flash simply to make it more visual. We'll be preparing a dev kit and providing that with help for the players. Once we get closer to the release of the dev kit (before it's even released), we will talk to the community and show what we have planned to put in it - UI engine, what we're providing - and then we can get feedback. So you could say, "This is not going to be enough, we need this," so we can get that feedback and get as close to what the community wants as possible.

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[MurakumoMillennium]

Yeah WoWs system to stop spam was pretty amazing. Very very rarely did I ever get a whisper of any kind, and I played on Stormrage US (alliance) which is like top 5 for largest servers the game has out of hundreds.

[Synapse]

If you want WoW features. Go back to WoW.

*oh sorry, was trying to be like one of those people that say go back to FFXI for suggesting FFXI features *


Not a bad Idea.