Why is there so much RMT spam?

[Savantus]

This last week, I have had to Blacklist over 20 Rmt spammers.
If it was not such a pain to have to constantly make room in my Blacklist, I would not care so much. Is anything at all being done to curb this annoying spam?

[Gesser]

No filter/spam-prevention = fail.

But in all seriousness, lots of good discussion about it here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ls-till-lvl-20

[Viridiana]

Because there's a market.

[Nicobo]

Because there's a market.

Suppose that is true, then I think SE should keep reminding players keep away from RMT or they will be banned.

Maybe add "never RMT or get banned" on every loading screen. ^^;

[Ninix]

Because there's a market.

There's a market in every game, and most of them don't have anywhere near the level of RMT spam I see in FFXIV.

[elkhorn]

Hmm so many people don't seem to understand supply and demand principal. They are spamming more and more because nobody is buying.. so they have an ever growing coffer they need to get rid of. The less gil in their coffers the less they shout. So blame people for not buying gil to shut them up.

[Suki-]

Hmm so many people don't seem to understand supply and demand principal. They are spamming more and more because nobody is buying.. so they have an ever growing coffer they need to get rid of. The less gil in their coffers the less they shout. So blame people for not buying gil to shut them up.

ehm... righto .-.

[Lumidus]

I haven't seen much spam on Sarg. Not sure if being in the FC house areas is the reason why

[Cherie]

Hmm so many people don't seem to understand supply and demand principal. They are spamming more and more because nobody is buying.. so they have an ever growing coffer they need to get rid of. The less gil in their coffers the less they shout. So blame people for not buying gil to shut them up.

I disagree there. They spam more because people *are* buying. An amazing thing, go to a JP server, they don't have this problem nearly as bad. The reason is? They don't buy in to it.
It's the same reason you see annoying commercials for all these products you don't need. It's not because the toothpaste company has a storehouse full of eggplant flavored toothpaste. It's because people are actually buying the dumb thing ....

If it was the case that no one was buying, they'd not be spamming. They'd run out of steam and just go away. They make so very little in their home country. It actually takes very little to sustain them. So even if sales were low, they still make out well compared to the income potential where they live.

[abzoluut]

Agreed, people buy loads of gil.

Try this, make a character on a JP server, log in for a couple of hours. Do the same on a EU/US server. Guess where you'll get spam. It's culture related.

However, I too like to know what SE actually does to reduce RMT. My hopes are very low.