Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[SpiritMuse]

So there are currently spammers from two different websites competing for the most /say spam in Gridania here. One of them is an old familiar site name, the other is a new one I've never seen before.

[kennybenny2]

so. just gonna leave this here. its a direct link to the page for reporting gil spammers. it actually works too. i setup a chat log filter to include only tell data, copied their character names, included the various messages and timestamps and i report it. takes me about 5 minutes if i have alot of them and need to change the filter settings before hand. my gil sell tells have gone from every 5 minutes to once a day in less than a week. and no, i dont spam duties, and no i dont sit around with my busy status on. i craft/gather/chat pretty much all day on here. even more so now that 3.4 has a date on it. true, i do have dual monitors and run in windowed mode pretty much always (who doesnt nowdays) we all want the devs to make it automated yes. and i agree something more needs to be done. but for now i'd rather see them all focus on bringing me new content than fixing something we can easily fix ourselves.

https://support.na.square-enix.com/f...=5382&la=1&p=0

[Kazza2003]

Sooooo signed^^.

[SpiritMuse]

There are now three (3!) gill spammers competing for who can spam the /say channel in Gridania the most. You can't even see two of them - they've somehow hacked their characters underground or invisible. Come on people.

[DiscoDuck]

Signed. Why can't we be like the jp servers? they get 0 RMT tell spam and afaik no bots running around

[FinaSel]

Signed. Why can't we be like the jp servers? they get 0 RMT tell spam and afaik no bots running around

It's true there is not RMT spam in my server.

But, there are bots occasionally. They mostly stick to the lower level areas or warp around so fast they are rarely seen. They seem to be used for leveling, not gathering.

HOWEVER, there is this one bot that has been running around for the past few days now in our server and no action has been taken yet.

I have already reported it 4 times in the past two days, writing in both English and Japanese, so whoever gets the message can understand it and fix this problem.
But still, the bot is still doing this. Not logging out for more than 24 hours, doing the same exact routine over and over.

They have complete monopoly on some items on market board!

What do we need to do to get the GMs to notice JUST ONE PERSON!?
It should be easy. Just ONE person? How long will this illegal activity be tolerated?

How hard is it? To read reports for one bot on this one server. Why can't this be solved quickly?

EDIT: I am tired of this bot being ignored. Perhaps reporting the player for harassment will at least let me speak to a real human about this situation? Has anyone tried this?

[Sicno]

Signed. Why can't we be like the jp servers? they get 0 RMT tell spam and afaik no bots running around

Because they're smart enough to know that if they bother the japanese player base the developers WILL actually do something about it.

[Astyrah]

Signed to help.

Signed. Why can't we be like the jp servers? they get 0 RMT tell spam and afaik no bots running around

Because they're smart enough to know that if they bother the japanese player base the developers WILL actually do something about it.

We do have bots over here in the JP servers, mostly THM and ARC bots who teleport around and stack in one place killing low level mobs.

And the japanese do engage in RMT but they do so very discreetly - they buy their RMT/gil thru jp yahoo auctions and the like.

[goob]

RMT employees will go wherever they make the most money. Tired of seeing RMT spam? Blame the people who buy gil. If you buy it you're part of the problem so don't bother complaining.

As long as there are more RMT employees buying copies of the game and subscribing than there are people leaving due to RMT, why would SE do anything about this? The exact same problem was huge in FFXI and it was the sole reason I stopped playing. But there apparently were a lot of people willing to keep the game going despite the gil sellers.

Now the FFXI gil buyers, plus those from other games of course, are in FFXIV, and apparently there are enough of them still buying gil that the RMT people are willing to keep buying copies of FFXIV with or without legal payment methods.

Stop expecting SE to do anything about the RMT problem. It's not going to happen and you should've realized that by now. If you really want RMT to go away, stop buying gil and discourage your friends from buying it.

[birdy_reene]

As far as the tell bots go, The ability to set tells to friends only, and ability to disable friend requests would solve that problem