Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Magusrex]

I am still RMT free on Exodus, sorry for those of you still in bad shape. I am so happy, RMT was making me miserable now I have a great game. THANK THANK YOU THANK YOU

[Zabuza]

Well...I haven't seen many posts complaining of this lately, so I can assume they've actually taken effective measures at dealing with RMT?

Am glad your situation improved Magus, you seemed to be one of the angriest ones about the RMTs ruining your gameplay.

[OlyverW]

I still get the tells on Coeurl I just have had them muted for so long it doesn't annoy me as much as when I had the sound on. There is still that annoying bot spamming in /s their marketing gibberish by the main atheryte in Gridania ( I assume Limsa and Ul'dah but don't go there as much) and it is always a new bot every day for the same gil selling site. Though I have not recieved a friend req from one for at least 2 weeks

[AlphaFox]

Sadly Coeurl is still swarmed with them. The one thing I would appreciate is a way to change the color of tells from friends and non friends, much like friends show up as orange by default when walking around. On the upside, least the "Hey bro" has stopped, guess the realized it had no real help to them.

[Niwashi]

Well...I haven't seen many posts complaining of this lately

There was a thread about it in the New Player Help forum.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...mall-Complaint
(I think the OP there may still be too low level to post here in the General Discussion forum.)

[Magusrex]

Well...I haven't seen many posts complaining of this lately, so I can assume they've actually taken effective measures at dealing with RMT?

Am glad your situation improved Magus, you seemed to be one of the angriest ones about the RMTs ruining your gameplay.

Yeah I was, and your post makes me consider my anger....the situation affected me...yes ...but it was the handling of it that made me angry. I felt like I and others were paying for a service and we were being harassed. The silence gave the impression they did not care, I understand they may have cared, but they made me FEEL like they were indifferent. I think the PR team failed them. I can't be angry any more because the problem is resolved for me. I feel bad for those that are still having issues though. The recent announcement should give people some hope because they are clearly trying new things, that was all I was looking for.

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[Deathmask]

There are 2 ways of fighting RMT effectively:

1) Create a game system where currency is useless to a point nobody feels the need to buy. A system where all players have a fair chance at ALL content without having to rely on mercenary players (like FFXI).

2) Identify AND PUNISH Gil Buyers. They are the source of the problem. Put their name in a Hall of Shame for everyone to see, get their character online on youtube/twitch and kill their character over and over till their items are broken, delete all his items and finally delete his character. Make them an example and make potential gil buyers to be very scared of becoming one. Or make like H1Z1 devs and oblige them to do a public apology on youtube to the community and then put them under observation status for forever, 1 strike, permanent ban.

Evrything else is just putting a bandaid in a river of blood.

[Amiaze]

I think SE has been taking several measures to fight RMT spam. I've noticed at times, on two seperate servers, when RMT spam was almost nonexistent. I'd like to note that at least one of those times was before the final patch for 2.0, and following a smaller patch for the game. That's just conjecture, though. Either way, SE has made making strides to cut down the RMT spam from restricting character creation to modifying what actually needs to be farmed in Heavensward to make Gil, and making it harder to do so.

For myself, I have a macro that will automatically deny a friend request and block whoever last sent me a tell, and I have all my tells in a separate tab that I occasionally check. The sound is turned off. I think the only thing missing from the equation on my end is the ability to quickly report someone...perhaps if there were a function designed specifically for reporting RMT spammers, such as a template that was partly/mostly filled out already? That would go a long way.

[TankedThomas]

Though it dips in frequency now and then, RMT spam is still very present.

You'd assume Square Enix has a filtering system that allows for wildcards and blocks the common messages that have been around for almost two years now, and that Mr. Sellgilz would be told to sod off (i.e. ban obvious bot names) but none of that appears to be the case.

I removed all the RMT bots from my blacklist this week (which was a slow and painful process). Almost immediately, those same bots were messaging me again. After many months, you'd think these bots would've been deleted, yet they were still around, sending the same messages. Why can't we right-click to report? Why are the players responsible for reporting to prevent this (which takes ages, so people don't bother)?

At the risk of sounding rude, are your staff incompetent, SE? I don't want to insult any hard-working people whom are trying to better this game for everyone, but this RMT spam is ludicrous.

Fix this, Square Enix.

/signed

[Amaya-Asha]

Add my name in support to ending RMT spam. I play leviathan server and some days I have to play with "BUSY" on the whole time.