It's not rocket surgery

[Niwashi]

can you name 1 mmo that has solved this issue? cause I played about 17 so far... they are all the same in regards to rmt spam.

I've only played a few other MMOs before but none of them had this problem.
LOTRO - There was a brief period when the game first launched it had RMT, but then Turbine put in rules to stop it and it never happened again.
DDO - Didn't play when it was first launched, so I don't know if it had a similar brief period of RMT vulnerability, but there was no RMT spam there by the time I started playing.
(Guild Wars - Well, that was a long time ago, so maybe RMT just wasn't as big of a thing then as it is now.)

So far, from my experience, RMT is 1 for 4, with FFXIV being the 1. Anyone saying it can't be stopped doesn't know what they're talking about. It can be stopped, and has been in other games. (And there have already been plenty of other threads describing how.)

[Duuude007]

I would be jazzed if i could set the game to limit tells to people in fc/ls/fl.

Moreso if I could blist AND report in 2 clicks by rightclicking the name of the offendor and "report as RMT", so that the taskforce automagically got a copypaste of anything that person said to me.

Maybe in 3.0.

[Aeyis]

So far, from my experience, RMT is 1 for 4, with FFXIV being the 1. Anyone saying it can't be stopped doesn't know what they're talking about. It can be stopped, and has been in other games. (And there have already been plenty of other threads describing how.)

RMTs tend to go to the MMOs where the most cash can be made. If an mmo had decreasing amounts of RMTs this pretty much came due a decline in its popularity and thus the amount of people willing to buy currency with real money.
Not due to measures taken.


If you ask me, believing that RMT was prevented is simply naive.

[Causality]

can you name 1 mmo that has solved this issue? cause I played about 17 so far... they are all the same in regards to rmt spam.

Star Wars the Old republic Restricts General Chat to level 10 and Whispering on Free accounts to level 10 as well.

[Niwashi]

RMTs tend to go to the MMOs where the most cash can be made. If an mmo had decreasing amounts of RMTs this pretty much came due a decline in its popularity and thus the amount of people willing to buy currency with real money.
Not due to measures taken.

The change in LOTRO was nearly instantaneous, from having as much RMT as we see here the day before a patch to a scattered few the first day after that patch and none at all by the second day after that patch (nor any day thereafter). What's more, it happened when the game was only something like two or three months old, and still extremely popular.

Believing that was just the gold sellers losing interest is what sounds naive to me.

Edit:
(This was when the right-click "Report RMT" option was added to the chat log, along with an update in how Turbine filtered out chat that had recognizably RMT strings in it, and probably some other back-end rules they didn't tell us about.)

[Chiramu]

Star Wars the Old republic Restricts General Chat to level 10 and Whispering on Free accounts to level 10 as well.

That game sucks though...

[gamesmart]

Star Wars the Old republic Restricts General Chat to level 10 and Whispering on Free accounts to level 10 as well.

Last time I logged in to that game, there was worse RMT spam on the Fleet than I get here in FFXIV.

[ConstantlyVexed]

I've played Star Trek online since it launched. There used to be a lot of spammers in there and now I hardly see any. In fact it's been prob well over a year since I've seen one. I don't know how they stopped it though unfortunately

[Nikita]

I don't know why it's such an issue either. Waiting patiently for addons. There's one in WoW that filters out all RMT spam and creates and easy one click report link. For some reason in FFXIV they make you fill out an entire report and the damn shame is that even after all that effort we still see the same bots farming and RMT spamming.

Addons now please. Give the players the chance to at least do part of your job that you aren't doing anyway.

[Naliee]

I do wish someday, a really BEAUTIFUL day we'd get right-click "Report RMT" to FFXIV.