so much RMT!

[GalkaBikini]

I don't know what the deal is, but our server, Midgardsormr, seems to be the absolute worst by far when it comes to this stuff. I also really wish I had taken screenshots of the OVER FIFTY BLACK MAGES on search named Gjhjia Zcnzcbv with no grand company or free company. Lately I've also noticed a LOT of bots underground, attacking stuff and teleporting around.

[Elusana_Celah]

I don't know what the deal is, but our server, Midgardsormr, seems to be the absolute worst by far when it comes to this stuff. I also really wish I had taken screenshots of the OVER FIFTY BLACK MAGES on search named Gjhjia Zcnzcbv with no grand company or free company. Lately I've also noticed a LOT of bots underground, attacking stuff and teleporting around.

I'm starting to wonder if SE is making money by some of these gil sellers / botters some sort of agreement where they don't ban them and they pay out a portion to SE for it. The fact that this is literally out of control and never really dealt with leads me to believe there's some underground agreements by SE to allow them to operate. I mean these people gotta buy a copy of the game, register an account and subscribe for a month just to send a tell, if SE was seriously stomping them out proactively there's no way it can be profitable for them to continue operating their business.

[Anna_Lannis]

You know, you could just ignore them and don't buy gil?

[SekhmetM]

I wanna know what exactly this group banning RMT is doing and what peanuts they're being paid.

All you need as proof of a RMT seller is the /tell. All you need as proof of botting is to go to the gathering places of these damned bots. (uldah, copperbell mines entrance, coerthas, etc)

All they need is one person logged into the game to get the /tells and throw down the ban hammer immediately. What--do they think these messages are what normal players do?

[Becken]

Im playing on an alt that's only about a week old and alrdy have about 60 on my BL... and got about 10 a day..., not sure if it been said b4 why not put a lvl cap on when u can send a tells, have to have at least 1 class at 15 (maybe), I know it wont stop them but slow them down for abit

[Violyre]

I had an RMT yesterday send me four messages in the time it took me to right-click and blacklist them. Granted I also had to make a space for it.

I've actually been considering filtering tells for my LP entirely so I don't look like I'm advertising or having to black it out constantly, and that will make some things very hard depending on how I go about things.

[Havenae]

Amen...

I just came back from hiatus of about a year and I see RMT has gotten 100x worse, not better. It's almost to the point that I don't even want to bother with chat, and close to where I dont even want to bother with the game. I can only imagine how daunting it is for new players.

Personally I ignore tells as a rule (as in I have them filtered to a chat tab I never look at unless somone specifically tells me they sent me a tell I should answer), and I continuously get random friend requests from level 1's who are obviously up to shady activites, which btw there is no option to blacklist them from the friend request menu so they can just keep re-requesting.

I'm sure SE is doing something to curtail this issue but it is far from enough. They really need to step up their game or allow us to report people. Something needs to be done because this problem is extremely detrimental to the game at this point.

[AsahinaMyLove]

I maded a linkshell! Ive put my friends in there >_> So we can go on busy-mode and can still chatting!

[Aerowaffle]

I've given up reporting RMT tell spam. When my black-list filled and I spent many minutes just clearing it out, I decided that I was spending far too much of the time that I paid for just reporting these level 1 bots.

So now all my tells go into it's own separate tab, and I disabled my tell notification sound.

I hate the RMT. I hate what it does to the economy, I hate that some players buy their way to the top with it, and I hate the spam that the bots send to the players. But the amount of effort to report simple RMT bots is ridiculous. Judging from the number of "(deleted)" in my blacklist, and the number of times I see the same farming bots continuously farming many days after being reported, SE is making a dent, but not nearly enough of a dent.

[Katlyna]

Why hasn't this been addressed yet zomg. There are so many different solutions which deeply reduce this problem. I personally have to gyrate between disabling tells and turning them back on because its so freaking bad.

I also don't understand why they haven't handled teleport bots yet? That's an absolutely shame their client isn't secure enough to deal with. Sigh.