WHY IS THERE STILL RMT SPAM!?

[gamersince1976]

The spam was getting less and less until it suddenly exploded again recently. Right around the time the PS4 version was released, in fact. Which leads me to believe that it's either RMT scum trying to mass market to the new player base again, or some of the new players are actually buying gil. Both, most likely.

As someone who upgraded from PS3 to PS4 it sickens me. However, I'm fairly certain that as the player base "levels out" after the free trial period we should see a decrease in tells again. In the meantime, I'll keep deleting the first 50 names on my blacklist every so often to make room for more.

[LalaRu]

I'll go straight to answer the OP's question.

You have all that RMT spam because there are a good number of idiots (yes, I never call bad names to anyone but this case is the exception) who effectively BUY their services, thus making their (illicit) market profitable and if you really have to blame someone, you need say thank you to that people.

[Lunavi]

There is two reasons behind this and therefore two groups of people to blame.

Group one: The scrubs that buys gil. The scrubs buy gil to pay group 2 to carry them.

Group two: The run sellers. In what realistic way would a scrub who needs to L2P get several KK to pay for the run? RMT ofcourse. These are the people that makes so that there is a "use" for RIDICULOUS amounts of gil in the game.

[losttemplar6]

majority of mmos will never stop rmts plain and simple rmts buy copies of the game in bulk thus the game company is making money regardless so they dont really care 2 most game companys and rmt sites have a contract so the company gets a cut of there profits 3 its a business they want money money and more money and will do what there board says to make more money and spend less money and no ammount of complaining will ever change this anyone who works for a corporation or is management positions already knows this to be the way of life

[Yurimi]

SE could easily deal with it... Like I say in every post on this subject they could just make an autoban bot and sit it somewhere like a inn room no one is going to send a random tell to a random character they never see. Character receives tell, character bans sender of said tell. Drop 1 on each server guess what faster solution with only the initial manpower of making this program used and if some random guy can make a telehack bot within 6hrs of the game being out I am sure SE programmers can make one easy enough considering they have the source code.

[losttemplar6]

long as that character was not doing anything then i agree it would work and see it used in other games se on the other hand wont take any active hardcore actions against rmt due to it costing them time and money and really they are trying to spend the least amount of money and devolopment as they they can its very aparent i am with you 100 percent i would love to just get rid of rmts i remember playing on early access and it was wonderfull but once the game whent live it took 3hrs for me to see my first rmt and least there not spamming in shoult anymore think se said hey no more of that it was so bad you could even have a conversation in any city

bottom line is unless someone goes after se or goes after the rmt companies on a harrasment lawsuit it will never end cause really they are harrassing players when its a contant stream of pms out of them thus they are dirrectly attacking you the player and no longer just the public

[Sadana]

/blist add <r>

macro it if it's really bad on your server.

[Yurimi]

/blist add <r>

macro it if it's really bad on your server.

The problem is when you are Recieving 3 different characters sending you tells at once. Even when blacklisted you still "recieve" the tell your chat log just doesn't show it so the blacklisted player will still appear as the last tell received. And with that your macro will just try to blist an already blister player.

[Sadana]

The problem is when you are Recieving 3 different characters sending you tells at once. Even when blacklisted you still "recieve" the tell your chat log just doesn't show it so the blacklisted player will still appear as the last tell received. And with that your macro will just try to blist an already blister player.

Sorry, it works well for me on the servers I play on. I only see about 1 or 2 RMT tells a week, even on the NA servers I'm on.

[Shirai]

Apart from that, while there is no similar report function yet there is a right click -> black list function already in game.