Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Niwashi]

... don't think anything has changed ...

... suddenly so many more than there were two weeks ago? ...

... been drastically reduced for a few months now ...

Sounds like they're shifting around between servers, so some are seeing more of them and some less. On Coeurl, we'd had a huge surge of RMT shortly before HW released. We aren't back up to that level (thank goodness), but after a lull following 3.0 coming out, we're back up to about what had been normal throughout last year, which is plenty to be really annoying.

And SE still isn't screening them and hasn't given us proper tools for reporting them.

[Gunspec]

On Coeurl, we'd had a huge surge of RMT shortly before HW released. We aren't back up to that level (thank goodness), but after a lull following 3.0 coming out, we're back up to about what had been normal throughout last year, which is plenty to be really annoying.

Just throwing out there that it isn't necessarily that RMT goes up or down, but that the number of players online goes up and down. Few people were playing immediately before 3.0, because what was the point? No point in trying to bump your ilevel up or cap poetics each week when the massive jump in ilevel was around the corner. Now fewer people are playing because it has been 3 months since a major piece of content.

With fewer players online, the RMT have fewer people to spam, so they rotate through their spam bots faster, and individuals get spammed more per minute. It's the same reason RMT spam seems higher at 4am then 8pm.

[LongsunZhao]

I know this is a giant problem. But isn't the route of all this the websites selling the gil. You take out farmers and another 10 will appear.

In my opinion. Square Enix really need to enforce the law and stop these websites operating...

Would it work to cut the websites out, then that might solve the whole problem.

[Malevicton]

I know this is a giant problem. But isn't the route of all this the websites selling the kill. You take out farmers and another 10 will appear.

In my opinion. Square Enix really need to enforce the law and stop these websites operating...

Would it work to cut the websites out, then that might solve the whole problem.

There's no such law to enforce.

[LongsunZhao]

Wouldn't it be a trademark violation or something like that?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

How is RMT violating a trademark?

[Syrehn]

Whelp my blacklist is capped 200/200 AGAIN; all full of RMT spammers. For the love of all that's RMT SE would you PLEASE stop playing "Follow the RMT trail" and just ban these accounts.

It honestly doesn't feel like SE has any global chat filters going because I get the same messages from spammers constantly. With SE's ineptitude at blocking RMT spam (that's right RMT/Bot team I'm looking at you) and unwillingness to implement proper tools it's almost like they're shoving us in the direction of 3rd party chat filter options.

During this RMT nightmare I have noticed something interesting these past couple weeks. The amount of spam I get when on low level classes (e.g working on DRK at 51) is almost null; I had virtually none as I went from 30 - 51. I tried idling around on a low level class (while alt tabbed working) for a few hours and had maybe 1 or 2 RMT. I switched to my 60 WHM and got hammered within a few minutes; this was constant spam until I swapped classes again at which point it stopped.

When I'm on a max capped class it's a constant barrage that drives me insane. I've taken to switching to low level classes while I idle around and it's been pretty quiet. I'm honestly wondering if RMT are filter spamming max level characters.

[Fayden]

/signed

It is unbelievable how this is still an issue. SE has had more than enough time to figure out a real solution to this problem. This is my biggest issue with the game.

[Sicno]

It's pretty obvious that SE is not willing to make any significant changes to make this not as big an issue. They'll just repeat their formula that doesn't work and that gives the illusion that they care when they don't. I gave up already, it's no use.

[DragonHunterG]

God forbid you make the mistake of thinking, I'll go ahead and turn on tells now, should be (might be) safe and then immediately after allowing them, get blasted with RMT tells (firmly realizing why you blocked all Tells in the first place). Needing to change my status to Busy all the time shouldn't be necessary and I shouldn't have to permanently block tells, but i do because quite honestly i have to thanks to RMT bots.

and there are always characters in the main areas of the city states spamming RMT using the Say command as well. so i can't even walk into the markets with getting some crap thrown at me. do i have to disable Say now too?? sooooo annoying. Square please do something. I can't report all these, I just can't. there are too many.