Why is there so much RMT spam?

[Seif]

Change that to:
-Click -> Report as RMT option that blacklists the account used.

It'd be much better to have them work on an option that actually combats the issue instead of sweeping it away somewhere so it's just not seen.

This. All other suggested disclaimers wouldn't have any effect at all. Do you really think RMT will be like "Gee they don't want gold sellers in this game? Okay then!" How naive.

[Aaron_T]

Because they honestly must not care that much or are secrelty getting a cut.

[Sapphic]

Well.

Release of the PS4 client brought new players to the game, so RMT sellers will try and get new customers. Also, on Odin, from going to maybe 1 seller tell a day to 3-7 a day I have also seen an increase in content sellers as well. From also one advertising in PF to 3-4 a day.

Coincidence? Or not?

[Raze_Krauser]

I think the RMTs are out in force on this game over any other MMO I've seen (including WoW), is because they know people who pay a subscription fee has the money to pay for their gil. With F2P MMO (re: DCUO, GW2), I don't see them as much since they know they can't get really far with people not willing to pay extra on top of the game they bought.

[stupiddog]

SE just need to re-inforce their rules and be more strict. Start Banning the person who buy gils as well.

There is a big problem with that, since there is no way SE can tell the difference between these two scenarios:

1.) A player gets lots of gil from a RMT character because he paid for it.
2.) Same as (1), but he/she never had any previous contact with him and did not pay.

Why would scenario (2) happen? Because if banning people receiving gil from RMT was ever enforced, they would use tactic (2) to bring that system down. If truly innocent players got banned (and even a few angry of them starting suing SE...), the bad press and publicity could seriously hurt SE and/or the FF14 franchise. Of course, you could argue that a legitimate, truly innocent player would report receiving an unexpected amount of gil immediately. But then, there are lots of newbies in the game not having the slightest idea what RMT is and just think they got lucky.

[Lithera]

Scenario 2 would require the person add the RMT to their Friends List.... In any case I guarantee they ban buyers as well. It just takes a little longer to snag the buyers because they have to have the evidence. Half the reason they leave some bots etc. up is so they can follow the gil trail to the buyers. Use the collection bots to find the gil distribution characters and then the buyers. Also pay attention to the RMT posts. There ARE filters but the RMT use half gibberish and begin or end their messages with a unique string of five or six characters so each post appears to the game to be a different post.