Quote Originally Posted by Nyalia View Post
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I totally get what you are saying. I wasnt trying to poo-poo any of the suggestions in this thread, i do think they are all good ones. I was just trying to understand why it seems like some people get 20+ spams a day while I get next to nothing. I know at one point though RMT was harvesting names straight out of the lodestone because it would let them know when people logged in. Maybe its because I don't respond to them or add any as friends. You stated you did once out of curiosity. It could be any sort of response like that flaggs your account as active so they will be more persistent? I know thats how spam email works, you open it or click a link out of curiosity, boom, you are hooped. I have always made it a point of not accepting a single friend request form someone i did not have prior interactions with.

I do hope they can help you guys out though.

Quote Originally Posted by Niwashi View Post
Maybe there's an upside after all to the difficulty of creating new characters on Balmung. The gil-sellers must have as much trouble as everyone else creating characters there, but they're dependent on repeatedly creating lots of characters. Must be pretty hard to do on the really crowded servers.
You know what, this actually makes a lot of sense. I'll have to see how many other people on the heavily restricted servers have my luck.