Persistent "Unstoppable" RMT Spam-Bot

[AdamFyi]

Some RMT spam bot owners are injecting victim's names into the spam message.

They're not actually injecting names, rather, they're just using the chat function. Some commands like <r>, and <t> automatically display the name of the person you're replying to and your current target respectively, once the message is sent.

Introduce a legal way to buy Gil.

"OMG SE WHY DID YOU MAKE THIS GAME P2W. I'M FURIOUS AND AM UNSUBSCRIBING!1!11!!!"

- Some people

There should be an option to receive tells from friends only. That would stop it for me at least.

Soo much this. Make it happen, SE!

[Rayna]

On Diabolos, nearly everyone is having to stay on busy status. I have screenshots of what I'm guessing are gil spammers in hordes. They all have the typical random letter names, and all of them were banned/deleted within like 15 minutes of seeing this, it was crazy. All in level 50 gear... there really needs to be a way to block tells from people not on your friends list or something...

This photo was taken in Ul'dah, there were 3 more bunches just like this.... at least 30 of them, and they all had on the exact same gear, so I'm guessing they are able to hack the game or something.

[JimboTCB]

This photo was taken in Ul'dah, there were 3 more bunches just like this.... at least 30 of them, and they all had on the exact same gear, so I'm guessing they are able to hack the game or something.

That's the BLM artifact set, you get it as a quest reward at 45 and 50, so it's not that surprising they're all wearing the same thing.

But anyway. RMT stuff is just out of control, I've played a bunch of MMOs and this is by far the worst in terms of the apparent indifference to dealing with the problem, and the uselessness of the tools that the player is given to deal with it. I've given up and just moved all my tells to a separate tab which I never look at, if people actually want to speak to me outside of party/FC/LS chat I'm sure they can figure a way out.