RMT Spam...enough already, SE!

[SamAkemi]

Having been reporting gil spammers for some time now, being absolutely sick to death of my chat window being completely filled up with that crap in the middle of several conversations at once at times, and of course if I am using /r to reply to a friend and a tell from a spammer comes in while im typing my message, omg...

Not knowing either how SE actually tracks and detects purchase of gil and the trade itself, if at all, doesnt help us to help the RMT team.

My reporting has now dropped off due to the number of times I have to stop what Im doing and report (within short spaces of time)

My solution? : BUSY MODE. Where no one can talk to me. Imagine for a moment if everyone had to start or did start doing that just to have some peace... that, imo, would be worse for the game, the business, and the awesome social/commendation setup and system that SE has going.

Sad that I have to do that.

[Trixxy]

Keep the tell function locked until level 5 or 10, gradually unlocking communication functions that aren't /party or /say. Getting there isn't much work at all (for anyone that isn't a bot)

Or
Back to the option of restricting tells; allow level based restrictions I.e. No tells from players below level 3 or something like that.

[ShadarAiel]

I would like to say again to the people contributing to this thread: thank you for keeping the suggestions positive and not turning this into an all out gripe fest.

[sarcasmfont] Now if only we could present these points and ideas in a productive and positive manner on some kind of forum(sp? O.o)
where the development team could review these ideas or let us know if we're ever going to be heard... [/sarcasmfont]

Have fun out there everyone! Someday they'll understand our frustration! xD

[Sipherous]

Unfortunately there is no way to clean and efficiently wipe RMT from the game. You implement features to block them they will come back. You can't ban IP addresses because a good majority of RMT bounce their IP's you cant restrict chat because it impacts new and returning players. All in all the real problem is the people funding RMT. Those people who buy Gil. Looking for the easy mode to obtaining gil.

I get maybe 2-6 tells a day about buying gil, not that bad honestly. It'll always be a problem the best you can do is deal with it cause no matter what a company does to block attempts The RMT just find another way to exploit it. Yelling at SE to fix something won't solve the problems and in fact there is very little they can actually do to stop advertisements other than hire people to sit in game and read chat 24/7 (who would want to do that seriously >.>). Just something you are going to have to deal with and if you are getting mass spammed from RMT, there is probably a good reason for it as they designated you a pretty open target. My Blacklist isnt even full yet and I been playing since launch.

[ShadarAiel]

All in all the real problem is the people funding RMT. Those people who buy Gil. Looking for the easy mode to obtaining gil.

I 100% agree with this. It sure would be nice if there were stronger systems in place to catch the people who are purchasing these wares. I feel with most of them looking for the "quick fix" or "easy way out" to attaining their virtual fortune either A) have no idea what kind of impact their purchases have on the server and/or B) Don't care if they get their credit information stolen while simultaneously causing drastic inflation on their server economy.

Perma-bans or removal of items / gear purchased with virtual black market peddled wares, imho, should be more prominent.

Just my (personally earned) 2 Gil. xD