[To Dev] - Request to increase Blacklist Cap

[Arannon]

Clearly we need a blacker list.

You joke, but yeah that would probably be the best solution...The Blacklist, and then the "RMT List", with its own right click menu command and everything...set it up so that if enough people add someone to the RMT list (Maybe do it so its X many in Y many hours) it sends off an auto-report to check in on the guy and their account.

[Kio]

Its not particularly difficult to do but clearing out the blacklist is just another inconvenience on a player whom already has been harassed by this problem. We pay for a service and shouldn't have to be bombarded by advertisements. I know gold selling and whatever scheming ways they go about trying to drum up business within the game is something that will never go away but SE should give us more tools to protect our privacy and peace in good faith. Instant reporting function, white-list only message option, flagging names as banned as mentioned above are some of the things which could help and I wish were made available to us.

As an aside, I find it silly that tells are blocked during certain content such as dungeons to "prevent players from being harassed" yet it seems perfectly acceptable that we be harassed with them doing literally anything else.

[Teslo]

They could make it so that accounts that no longer have a subscription show up as (Cancelled) in the social lists. This would help a lot with those bloated blacklists.

[Ellatrix]

I would just prefer to have blacklist categories much like they added to friend list. This would let me blist RMT and clear out that list on a daily basis while maintaining other players on there who are no longer permitted to wipe parties I build through PF much more easily.

[Chihaya]

Asking for a blacklist increase only postpone the problem ;p
What are you going to do when you blisted 1000 RMT - increase to 2000? 3000?

Just gotta learn to clean out blist regularly - though I haven't gotten many RMT tell on Balmung lately, was really bad before xmas.

[Teppie]

On that note, they should make a point to increase the friends list as well, mine has been full for fall too long and it's pretty painful having to go down it to decide who's fit to stay on and who has to get cut.

[Atreides]

On that note, they should make a point to increase the friends list as well, mine has been full for fall too long and it's pretty painful having to go down it to decide who's fit to stay on and who has to get cut.

In FCs you see how long a person has been offline, it would be nice to have that option in LS and FL.
An offline counter would be nice for that, it would make it much easier to see whether those people actually still play or not.

[Aunkah]

I would estimate that my list got full in 6 months more or less in our server, but this temporary action can buy time of convenience until this issue is addressed and closed.

lolz i filled all 200 slots in less then 1month my sub doesnt renew for a few more days and i just had to delete names to make room for the 5 new tells i was getting every hour

[Noxifer]

I'd really love to have a grouping function for blacklist, the same as we now have for friendlist. That way I could put actual blacklisted characters into groups and leave the RMTs groupless. When I want to delete names off the list, select to show only groupless people, and bam, no accidental removal of people who actually belong on that list

[BraveheartRamo]

Its not particularly difficult to do but clearing out the blacklist is just another inconvenience on a player whom already has been harassed by this problem. We pay for a service and shouldn't have to be bombarded by advertisements.

I totally agree with you. I apologize for complaining about this issue, but yesterday while watching a cutscene, I had to swtich to message log and check the last messages received to find it an another spam message. Also spammers tend to send long messages that would consume most of display window which may force you to maximize the log window and view message history when needed. Even tho tagging RMT messages is an excellent idea suggested by many but to optimize a service is when there is less input made by the end-user. When we block spammers we are contributing to enforcing SE policies which is acceptable up to a certain extent, but to dedicate time to clean a blacklist and start all over again can be time consuming and inconvinient. I will try this today through my PS3 console and will see how long it will take to clean up a full blacklist (considering the confirmation message for each account).

If anyone have information of specific macros for such actions, please do mention.

I was also thinking that these spammers may also be SE customers. I believe they require to pay for accessing the client which is fine, let SE generate revenue from them while they dont enjoy the game and offer all players a one stop for protecting privacy even with an infinite blacklisting options or optimized blacklisting system. (win-win)