Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Zabuza]

Gotcha - Sorry, I tried a thread search and didn't see anything so I figured I would put a suggestion forward. I agree the RMT situation has gotten so out of control so I've been trying to find any sort of response from SE about the situation, to no avail. Hopefully this thread is making a dent!

It's fine, I may put up a suggestions section today, compiling those together. And with that, we are at 51 signatures!

[LandricFrey]

It's fine, I may put up a suggestions section today, compiling those together. And with that, we are at 51 signatures!

Way to go! and feel free to add any or all suggestions from my thread under my original post, must have had around 15 or so suggestions there.

[GreatMonkey]

Maybe if we all move to the jp servers, might get something then...

I'll sign.

[lvicious]

/signed

My experiences with GM's and the almighty Task Force since my 9 yrs of ffxi and now here are well... sad. I won't claim to know what goes on at their workplace or what is actually being done and what cannot be done on their end.

I do know that some of the most obvious cases of rmt and regular players using 3rd pty software to bot shards are not being taken care of. I will not mention names as my post will just get wiped and temp banned but it's shameful to see groups of rmt or shard botters since last Fall still going at it in the same locations.

You provide them with all the clear cut evidence you need it would be obvious to a child and they do nothing. Plenty of examples on Excalibur of this type of non action. The tells.. I've had to resort like most to /busy mode. Some of my friends loathe this and put up with the rmt /tells of which I cannot comprehend.

Reporting names is a waste of time especially when they are temp accounts. I gave up and stopped reporting rmt/3rd pty users...but hey if someone reads the petition and actually wakes up one day to care then power to them. Overall the Task Force and GM services are laughable.

As from a technical aspect I have no idea what all they can do but I strongly feel they can do a lot more.

I appreciate this thread and your action but I think it is ultimately pointless. SE could care less besides the accounts they nuke. I would only imagine better filters and /tell options for us would be a remedy.

[KagatoAC]

I'd sign this 100 times if I could. after weeks of dealing with the ever increasing spam on Famfrit (They are even shouting in the cities again). I finally had to break down and filter /tells completely off my chat logs. I removed it from my normal chats channels and made a separate channel just for tells which I named Tell Spam.

I've had to post in my comments that /tells are off and if you need to get my attention you will have to shout in my area and hope I'm watching general chat.

Offically Signed.

[Shizzle]

Considering we already have services to pay for gender changes,name changes etc I think the quickest and easiest method of eradicating the RMT spam bots is by SE allowing subscribers to buy gil from the store it'd certainly stop the sellers then if SE themselves offer the service although itd also mean the economy would inflate to ridiculous levels too.

[Damun]

If anything, this most recent report of how many accounts banned, shows just how ridiculous this has gotten.

I mean seriously 11,000 accounts banned?

SE is not getting to the root of the problem, and they're loosing more customers to people being annoyed by the harassment than they would if they just permabanned the buyers.

[Shizzle]

The buyers is part of the problem Damun, the gil farmers need to be banned as well.

[Damun]

The buyers is part of the problem Damun, the gil farmers need to be banned as well.

Yes they are, they're not doing enough, they're not giving us the tools to really help them mitigate this. The farmers, and the buyers are just getting off way too easy.

[raelgun]

Yes they are, they're not doing enough, they're not giving us the tools to really help them mitigate this. The farmers, and the buyers are just getting off way too easy.

Buyers are the biggest problem, no buyers, much less sellers, people need to understand you can't just only accept a way to filter the tells or the like, reason is, yes it will help at first, however I can assure you the sellers will find another way to advertise and it may get even more aggressive, there needs to be a larger stance against the buyers then the sellers.
With much less buyers, theres little want to sell into that market, the root of the problem needs to be dealt with and thats the players.