Recently a friend of mines was interested in getting back into this game and when he attempted to make a new character on Ultros to join me, he received notice that there was a restriction on new character creations. That's weird because according to http://xivsoul.com/ Ultros has one of the lowest amounts of players in an FC. This can only mean that our RMT overlords have literally taken over the server.

I'm not sure how exactly RMT operates on other server to acquire customers, but in Ultros they bombard player's chat box with tells. Would it be possible given time and financial constraints to have SE's FFXIV division to set a restriction regarding the usage of the tell feature? Examples:
  • Only send/receive tells to/from people on your on your friends list or FC.
  • Only send a limited number of tells to a limited number of people within a certain time frame. Amount can be increased for the specific individual one is communicating with if he or she responds.
  • A quest must be completed at a certain level in order to either gain access to the tell feature or remove a tell limit restriction.

While I don't believe that RMTs can be completely removed from the FFXIV community, I do find their tell spam to be an annoying aspect of their activities which I would like to see less of. Not sure if its as bad on other servers.