Quote Originally Posted by Niwashi View Post
Neither of those would have any effect on it. The spam bots will be whatever level they need to be to send their spam.
As of now, if a character is banned for spamming after ten minutes, they just turn around creating a new one. One that's instantly capable of starting where the other left off. Obviously this is overwhelming the staff responsible for keeping the servers clean of this stuff. So, putting a time wall up to slow down the flood of new RMT SPAM-Ready characters will help!

People need to give up on the notion that making the game harder for newcomers would help stop spam.
No one wants to make the game harder newcomers. But newcomers and long time players alike shouldn't subjected to this garbage we see now. Yes it's unfortunate. But I simply do not know what else they can do to stop this other than this.

The only thing that will stop the RMT spam is making it unprofitable.
RMT is a major business, and it's not going away. These RMT outfits operate their services within just about every MMO available! You can't just stop people from wanting a quick way to get some gold/gil? People are going to take shortcuts, people are going to cheat.

Personally, I could care less if people actually use these services. It's their money, and if they want to take the risk of losing their account, they can go right ahead. I, and everyone else, is sick of seeing all the RMT SPAM /tells we see now. The priority should be to stop those first!

The only reason RMT spam is so bad in this game is because SE isn't doing anything to stop it.
They are doing something about it! And you screaming any different isn't HELPPING. I'm offering a possible solution! You're just screaming "SQUARE-ENIX! DO MORE!"