Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[WinnieM]

/sign

Umm yeah. I really think that something should be done about these gil spammers. It used to not be as bad, but it's really hard to tolerate now. I usually don't set my status on busy because I've got friends who aren't part of my linkshells or my free company and they communicate with me through tell. So it really gets on my nerves.

[Havenae]

You are correct. We cannot root them all out, corruption is everywhere. Yet, least we should eliminate as much of them as possible.

You're absolutely right, they should be rooted out as much as possible as well. In fact I'd be in favor of a more streamlined report feature for that too (because some people are just stupid and will actually brag about it) if I didn't know it would be abused to Thal's balls and back. But personally I think SE is too lax on their ban policy. I say: "1st time offense? Too bad you're gone, permanently." We know, we already know you're not supposed to do it. People do it anyway. They think they won't get caught or they'll get a slap on the wrist and be back in a few days. Sure you'd lose a few customers like that, but I think if this crap continues, they're gonna lose a lot more than those few who buy gil.

Mostly because it annoys the hell out of people. But it also degrades the social aspect of this game. You basically we now have an entire line of communication that can't be used, because if you do then you have to read all the gibberish these 'people' spam you with and chances are you're going to miss a reply from an actual person in the mess of it. So why bother? But then that takes away a method for people who aren't in the same FC or the same Linkshell to interact, essentially making this game more cliquish and socially devoid than it already was.

I couldn't tell you how many friends I've made in other games through whisper and tell features but it has certainly been much more than I have through guild/clan/alliance/<insert player ran group here> channels. Someone send a tell out of the blue, "hey I like your character." or "Hey we need another tank/healer/dps, wanna come run this with us?" or "Hey could you help me? I need to find...." You can't have any of that here. and Why? Because SE wants to pretend like they have it under control? "RMT report feature? Pfft no we;re not implementing that, we got this."

NO.YOU.DON'T

[LaylaTsarra]

They need to make Busy a permanent setting so I don't have to be bothered resetting it every time I log in. Simply not worth putting up with dealing with them off busy.

[Jamyl_Sarum]

/signed
pointless because se doesn't care, but signed anyways.

[Niwashi]

They need to make Busy a permanent setting so I don't have to be bothered resetting it every time I log in. Simply not worth putting up with dealing with them off busy.

The equivalent for that is just to take the Tell channel off of your chat windows and remove the sound notification from it. Unfortunately that won't stop the Friend invites, but on the positive side it won't stop you from joining groups either.

I'm not quite ready to give up on communication in a social game yet, so I haven't done that. I'm still really hoping SE will eventually take this seriously and get rid of the spam so I don't have to resort to this, but if you've reached the point that isolation is preferable to the constant harassment, that's the best way its available.

[Gramul]

I recommend a new Inquisitor job to root out the gil buyers/sellers.
It will allow for player killing and looting their bodies.
And I can not think of a single way that it could go titanically wrong.

[moudoka]

Sign me up, I really think SE gets kickbacks from these Chinese sellers. The numbers, and actual websites are doubling every month. I've seen a new website being spammed every week. There's zero recourse to them. To those that buy gil, shut down their accounts too. They feed these animals. As of now, there really is NO penalty for buying or spamming everyone to death. These gil sellers don't care if you ban one account, they have fifty waiting to be used. Something seriously needs to be done.

[Ophie-Mio]

Sign me up, I really think SE gets kickbacks from these Chinese sellers.

Shaking my head from the literal cray in this statement.

[Zabuza]

I recommend a new Inquisitor job to root out the gil buyers/sellers.
It will allow for player killing and looting their bodies.
And I can not think of a single way that it could go titanically wrong.

You'd see a pile of dead bodies constantly in the streets of Ul'dah, haha.

I do find it interesting that...

Ul'dah is painted as the most corrupt, money hungry city in the game's story, and also happens to be the headquarters of all the corrupt spam bots that are offering you "money exchanges."

[Lito00]

Signed.

Please, SE... please fix this!