Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Elusana_Celah]

I guess I never mentioned I'm signing this lol. I had a much happier social life in FFXIV when I didn't need to keep /busy up 24/7.

/signed

[tocsin]

I personally don't think we are being loud enough on this subject.

Consider this:
in the latest "ask questions for the live letter" http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...!-(FFXIV-ARR)/ The word RMT was only mentioned 15 times in questions, out of the first 310 questions. for a total of 4.8% of questions being about RMT. This is compared to 78 questions being asked about "Can you make X item dyable?", for 25.2% of questions asked.

We need to start being a LOT more vocal about this, if we are ever going to get a response. get out there, and start pestering, until they HAVE to answer.

[WrenDark]

/signed here its getting really bad on my server, i cleaned out 50 entries the night before, i am up to 45 tonight over the course of the day

[Steve_UK]

/Signed - Steve UK, Mateus Server.

I think you guy's have it lucky, every hour i get between 20-30 /tells from RMT trying to sell gil.

Mateus is a low populated server, and most people move from our server, to a more populated server once they see the bad progression the majority of our server has, the prices on items on marketboard, and more active player's around their timezone (Mateus is dead, apart from 2-3 hours at american evening's)

[Steve_UK]

The RMT spam is worse during the day than it is at night, since less players are being harrassed, but with the population dwelling, and currently we are loseing players because of certain issue's, i'm surprized they even stick around.

I've already spoken to SE in customer support, and tried to suggest/offer ways they could implement restiction's to those spamming more than others. (there should also be an register account limit of 1-2 per week, Per IP.) since it's very unlikely a normal player will make alot of account's per week, espeically if your having to pay for them :/ i dont think their should be a free trial period, or atleast there should be a reduced fee for the first month (I.E £5 for the first month, then £8 for every month after)

Theres nothing we can do to stop these RMT spammer's as ive seen them in every game ive played in 12 year, but we can live in hope that square enix finally support their player's, by implementing something..

Steve UK

[ChiefCurrahee]

/signed

I've been sick and tired of this bullshit that's going on.

TIME TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE SE!

[HeroSamson]

The RMT spam is worse during the day than it is at night, since less players are being harrassed, but with the population dwelling, and currently we are loseing players because of certain issue's, i'm surprized they even stick around.

I actually stopped playing, I haven't done a dungeon or fate or tried to do anything for a while, the only thing keeping me here is golden saucer at the moment.

I shut off tells but get friend invites a lot and got sick of putting up /busy, I wanna play but I am worn down from cancelling invites, so I hop on do my scratch off match my 3 numbers each day do a few events inside saucer log out till tomorrow before I get invited.

it really sucks the fun out of the game and me and my girl are thinking about not getting expansion because of the hassle.

My cousin quit and my nephew and my sisters bf quit because of the spam, my girl she doesn't even wanna log in at this point like I said I don't even know why we are paying for it still.
I stay because I wanna do stuff, though once I get that first invite from a level 1 about GIL I log out and just don't have time for that crap.

FFXI put up the spam filter when I was playing that, I was on the brink of leaving that game, I actually did for a few months till I heard about the filter.

Came back to FFXI it was refreshing not to see a single spam, I left FFXI for FFXIV after SOA was released and makes me almost regret I did if I had known the spam was going to be this bad I wouldn't of been so hasty to leave but I lost progress on FFXI.

Oh well.

I can catch up here, just hoping they fix this soon.

[Bebekurenai]

YESSS!!!

/sign
/sign
/sign

[Tranquil]

I'm kind of surprised at the amount of tells people get, having skimmed through the thread. On Phoenix, I get like 0-3 tells per day depending on when I play and how long I play for. Played like 10 hours before the emergency maintenance kicked in today and I was mostly out of instances (ie. in the open world) and I think I got 2 tells in that time frame. So it definitely seems like NA has it the worst by far. My condolences to all of you. Here's hoping SE takes action more efficiently.

[Sanghelios]

I'm kind of surprised at the amount of tells people get, having skimmed through the thread. ...

Hey Rin, i can agree with you. On Phoenix i also getting around 0-3 at average per day. I think its probably because Phoenix isnt really a progression server, even if the player base is kinda big. I think thats why Phoenix is probably not that important for thoose rmt sites. But when i take a look on the pictures from op and seeing that he is getting a rmt tell once every minute is just ridiculous. If i would be on his place i would probably already have stopped to play this game. I mean, running around with busy status so noone can /tell me is just even more ridiculous.

With Heavensward i really hope they adding a function that REALLY helps on rmt. This whole thing with blacklisting takes WAY to much time, because at some point you have to clear your whole blacklist wich takes even more time to do.

/signed