Anyone finding RMT tells getting really excessive now?

[odintius]

If they had a permanent fix every mmo that had this issue they would have already implemented it and be done with rmt spam, unfortunately their isn't a simple fix without it effecting of others legit players who don't spam in tells or shouts. They would have to restrict almost every word that would be related to selling/buying in that regard that allot of words that legit players use in common conversations not even related to selling or buying if you think about it. It would restrict us from actually talking because I can't use XXX word and doesn't get sent or seen by you or friend it would be the equivalent of not being able to send a tell to someone while in a dungeon or out of dungeon.

[mdha02]

Faerie is horrible with the RMT /tells. I blacklist 5-10 a hour. Unfortunately for the time being the only simple solution is /busy. I just let members of my FC know that I'm not actually busy and if the need me just get a hold of me in /FC.

[Buff_Archer]

There are things that can be done to make this less of a pain to deal with. And if you only get 1 a month, hooray for you but for those of us who are getting an excessive amount for one reason or another and have never bought gil- we shouldn't have to resign ourselves to deleting 20+ people a day from our Blacklist so we have room to fill it up again with the tells from new spambots. And we shouldn't have to go on Busy and disable a valid method of communication. People keep coming up with reasons why it can't be 100% solved, there are ways to make a major dent in the QoL issues that result from RMT. It's past time to do something here, almost a year and a half since this went live and there haven't been any changes to address the aspect of this that makes it a major nuisance where it could be a more minor one-

We should not have to actively manage a list of characters we've blacklisted due to spam. Considering that we have to go to be trouble to Blacklist these accounts in the first place, having to subsequently juggle a blacklist of spambots is an insult to our time. And I get that there needs to be some limitation on a blacklist size, and that increasing the cap from 200 to a higher number would only result in larger maxed-out lists down the road and not solve anything. But there are other options here, enough time has gone by without any incremental improvements that many of us feel that this isn't being treated as a high priority. and that's why people are upset and vocal about it. It seems to me that there are more customers upset over that aspect, than there are who expect every single RMT spam to be eliminated altogether.

-Here's one of several possible solutions that would have been realistic to implement long before now- have a separate blacklist for players vs. spammers. Periodically (like monthly or during maintenance windows), have a process that cross-references entries on the 'RMT blacklist' with a database of banned characters, and remove then from the user-side blacklist to keep it enough of a margin under the threshold that it shouldn't endlessly continue to fill to capacity.
- If the cross-referencing with banned RMT accounts isn't feasible, have the 'RMT Blacklist' periodically clear out a portion of that list by getting rid of the earliest ones first, and make sure enough time has passed that an account would have been most likely shut down.
- Can't have that? How about a button- "Clear out entries older than x days?"

Those are high-level solution and of course more details would need to be worked out- but giving us a separate list to track these would enable the and other options. But there are options for making this less of a headache.... and not seeing something, anything done about it is dismaying.

[polyhedral]

In the last day, I've had to blacklist 16 other names spamming me trying to sell gil, on top of the dozens I've already had blacklisted.

It's quite obvious SE does not care about this issue at all. It's really annoying, and well, there's other games out there that do take care of RMT very swiftly.

Perhaps it's time for myself to look into another game? I'm sick of this, multiple times ever single hour, every single day I'm online.

Either do something about it, or you'll lose people SE. And let me not even start on this cash shop nonsense going on. I'm losing interest, quickly.

[Gramul]

I got 5 within the first 10 minutes of logging in yesterday.