Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Felis]

Thing is, it's not a problem on jp servers at all. I've been on tonberry 10 months and can't remember ever getting one. I watch my bf play on typhon and he never gets them either.

i think this is because of language barriers.
RMTs can't write in japanese, and the amount of players on JP servers that can understand the english RMT codes are not enough to start a business there.

[tocsin]

The same way that any of us can communicate privately. He made a new character on my server, and sent me a friend request as a level one. when I didn't accept it (lvl 1 friend request, lol) he contacted one of my FC mates, and had them let me know who he was, and I accepted his request. we have been communicating over mog mail.

He should be unbanned around the 19th.

edit: this exact scenario is why I usually argue against creating /tell restrictions for lvl 1 characters. We legitimate players use them as well.

[Starcade]

I 100% agree all that RMT spam is going to cripple the game for new players. If you leave tells on and some one sends you a genuine tell, your going to have to scroll up to read it because of the 3 or 4 RMT spam tells you received right after the tell.

My first RMT tell was literally within two minutes of setting foot in Gridania after the opening CS. This is ridiculous and needs to be bloody stopped.

[seida]

i think this is because of language barriers.
RMTs can't write in japanese, and the amount of players on JP servers that can understand the english RMT codes are not enough to start a business there.

I highly doubt it, you think they would speak English unless there was money to be made from it? It's not that difficult to find out the relevant vocab needed. If there was money to be made, they would do it. Also, there are loads of english speakers on Tonberry and we still never get any (despite there beng gil buyers here). I think buying gil is a lot more taboo among jp players.

Anyway, the other big problem IS the buyers. But of course SE will never ban anyone who buys gil, because they pay a subscription and SE wants their money, no matter how unfair it is to other players. If there were no buyers, the shouts would die out soon enough.

It does sound unbearable on other servers though, whatever they are doing currently, it is clearly not enough.

[Jefferson050]

/sign

I can't take it any more ether.
Getting between 10 and 30 tells a day.

Suggestions:
- Easier way to report RMT on the PS4 (Square button on name Report RMT) Done!
- Option to only accept Tells from friends.

[SinisterJointss]

/signed Shadow Menace - Midgardsomnr

[Werewolf]

Yeah it's really bad now, I used to tolerate it but now I literately get tells as soon as I get online and spammed bad if I don't change my status to Busy which I shouldn't have to do.

They don't even try to hide it anymore, with level 1 characters sending me friend invites named "Ggatm'com Sellgils"...

SE really needs to do something about this, it's ruining their game.

/signed Lou Lupus - Midgardsormr

[Waeksyn]

They don't even try to hide it anymore, with level 1 characters sending me friend invites named "Ggatm'com Sellgils"...
/signed Lou Lupus - Midgardsormr

I've been getting these friend requests from the same name also (and variations once I Blacklist). SE is so toothless that that the RMT can exhibit such huge balls as this.

This thread is TLDR so sorry if I repeat what others have suggested. I would like to see filtering on /tell and friend requests - specifically to filter by player level - along with a white list so I can add exceptions such as FC members, people on my friend list, specific names, etc. RMT are not going to take a character to level 50 to spam their tells and friend requests. If you really want to talk to me, find me in person and use /say.

Edit: /signed Waekswys Styrmwyn - Leviathan Server

[Amatsuhira]

/signed Remmy Palazzo -Behemoth

[Vensari]

Quite literally made my forum account finally just so I can add my name to this. In Cactaur we've been getting a huge influx of RMT traffic which makes communication for a text chat only game nearly impossible. Marking as busy hasn't ever been a working solution for this. My black list for RMT names is quickly nearing one hundred of the allowed two hundred name limit. A majority of those names are still marked as present which leads me to think that they aren't banned/deleted yet.

TL;DR - RMTs are a problem; add my name. I just wanna play a great game w/ a great community.

/signed Vensari Vexhart -Cactaur