Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[ProfessorGenki]

I stopped reporting long, long ago. Too long of a process and the /tells came in too often. It's so cumbersome I would find myself reporting more often than playing the game. If they had a right click report option however, it would have been a different story. Still not sure why they haven't implemented this simple feature.

Reporting only works after they all ready spam you... custom /tell filters would prevent the spam in the 1st place... SquareEnix, you're only tempting peel to be anti-social in this game... My suggestion: disable tell altogether in chat log settings... and use mumble like my FC does... the game will be more clique-ish... but that's what SE WANTS... their actions and lack of any effort to a foolproof solution dictate that fact

[Felmyst]

Rofl zero RMT tells on Balmung. Big populated server ftw. Long live to freedom and roleplayers!

[Sicno]

Rofl zero RMT tells on Balmung. Locked forever server ftw. Long live to freedom and roleplayers!

Fixed that for you.

[Atoli]

The amount of tells I get has been so incredibly low for months now that I really don't care. There are so few now (like 3 per week or something at most) that I actually make the effort to report them, when once, I wouldn't have had time to play if I reported all the RMT spammers xD

Other stuff like friend requests and the like have never been a problem on our server in the first place.

What DOES bother me though is that nothing seems to be done against the source. It's all nice and dandy to ban the sellers, but they'll just keep creating new characters/accounts.
Well of course, since the site is still operational, even though it got reported like a thousand times for more than a year now.
I understand that RMT will never die out as long as there are people out there who buy their stuff, but if the SAME COMPANY can keep selling forbidden goods for 2 years without ever getting shut down, something is wrong.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

ouigh7uiyh890u

Most RMTs operate in different countries, so there's not a lot you could do to them.

[ProfessorGenki]

Likewise, The RMT spam I've been getting as of late is much more than normal.. I suppose they have to since its the holidays. I wish there was just a better way to handle all this.. I have tried everything but the constant tells make the game less enjoyable. Personally, I wish there was some way to filter the tells so that I could send the RMT spam to one tab but keep the legit tells.

How could the system differentiate between RMT spam and legit tells?

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Rofl zero RMT tells on Balmung. Big populated server ftw. Long live to freedom and roleplayers!

I've had a single rmt tell on Balmung.
Happened at played time 10 days and 5 hours after creating the character.

How could the system differentiate between RMT spam and legit tells?

You make filters that filter out stuff that no one except rmt tellers would use, such as my suggestion in another thread...

[Any number]<three or four 0's>[Space or no space]<k or K>

Would probably block most RMT tells...

Considering, how many people do you know would talk about thousands of thousands?
Most people would swap to the m suffix for millions.

[Korereactor]

I agree. As state of the art this MMO is - the spam filtering needs to be greatly improved. I came back after about a year and was surprised to still see this issue. It's not game breaking, but it is very annoying.

[Niadissa]

Sad thing was, is the spam slowed down after Heavensward. It was an amazing 3-4 weeks of almost no spam, then it started picking up again, slowly at first, and now it is back in full force on Lamia.

[Zabuza]

Sad thing was, is the spam slowed down after Heavensward. It was an amazing 3-4 weeks of almost no spam, then it started picking up again, slowly at first, and now it is back in full force on Lamia.

The reason for this was the boom of players that had returned, making the servers so full that RMTs couldn't get in. Once the nomadic players had their fill and left again, the RMTs were once again afforded space to conduct their harassment. So, I guess what I'm trying to say is, the reason for the reduction in RMT in that time period wasn't because of any anti-RMT measures that SE implemented, but rather because of a resurgence of legit players.