We should have a whitelist option for tells

[Sandoria]

They need to make ignore account wide. Make the rmt have to pay for new accounts if they want to keep spamming. I doubt the money investment would be worth that. Currently, the RMT in this game are by far more aggressive and intolerable than any other mmo I've ever played. So they really need to do something.

I already have my own sort of white list as I only interact with people in either my free company or my linkshells. The bad part about this is that it really makes it harder to meet and make friends with new people who aren't invited to any of those places. In other mmo's, I made so many friends out in the world, doing quests or hunting things: The kind of friends I wouldn't make now because I have to have a /busy status or it's just unbearable.

[Avenger]

I already have my own sort of white list as I only interact with people in either my free company or my linkshells. The bad part about this is that it really makes it harder to meet and make friends with new people who aren't invited to any of those places. In other mmo's, I made so many friends out in the world, doing quests or hunting things: The kind of friends I wouldn't make now because I have to have a /busy status or it's just unbearable.

True - if you block /tell then the main ways of communicating with random people who aren't in your party are the old-fashioned /say, /yell, /shout and /emotes. I wouldn't mind more use of /say for random conversation (not from spammers!) although on my server it seems that random chat mainly happens using /shout!

Something is really wrong in an MMO if players find it unbearable to play without being in do-not-disturb mode.

[Avenger]

They need to make ignore account wide.

If this is not already the case, it really should be!

[Ladon]

I never understood why we could not receive tells inside instances to begin with. Or view LS members or FC members on at a time. It seems weird to me, since you might want to look into your LS or FC to see if anyone would be willing to join in or whatever.

Straight up design limitations on how they engineered character instancing.

Unlike with channel chat like FC chat which is broadcast, a tell or looking up a FC list would require a query of some sort first. It looks like they designed thier instancing where when a character enters an instance, the instance data only has bare minimum access to certain sets of character data. That means no tells, no access to lists like FC members, minion data, mount data, etc.

So TL;DR: because server stress.

[Miakisu]

Already suggested in this thread: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-anti-RMT-idea

If you have any more ideas, please contribute