Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[myahele]

As annoying as it is, why not use captcha verification when making new accounts. characters?

And maybe do it every once in a while if a person doesn't have a security token?

Although I don't think it'll be too effective

[Morbid]

Nothing changed back from my forum ban. Yet the same RMT bot groups remain on my server right now even after this most recent account wipe. Look at their reported numbers. Yeah SE is doing tons... '_'

[slml320]

Larger team to deal with RMT and more chat filters. They are likely already quite aware of those options. Outside of flat out IP bans there is only so much you can really do. There is a reason even older MMOs struggle with this issue even to this day. If players would stop buying the gil we wouldn't even have this problem.

tiggy you come in here have a whaa whaa white knight on a situation that hardly affects you spout unsubstantiated claims as if your a dev or yoshi himself..report ppl who don't agree with your bs .. plz move along!!!

[Tiggy]

tiggy you come in here have a whaa whaa white knight on a situation that hardly affects you spout unsubstantiated claims as if your a dev or yoshi himself..report ppl who don't agree with your bs .. plz move along!!!

But you right there gave me such a good reason to come back to a thread. Funny how you say unsubstantiated when everything you just quoted from me had been done in other games and only worked but so well.

[Morbid]

Four man BLM FC confirmed still active on Jenova. U'ldah steps.

Jenova server people already know which group.

[Crescent_Dusk]

What I don't understand is why after all this time you still can't have an option to right click a spammer's name to report and block them without clogging up your blacklist.

[Arkann]

"Greetings Yosuke,

Let us spit in your face s'more, m'kay ?"

[Welsper59]

What I don't understand is why after all this time you still can't have an option to right click a spammer's name to report and block them without clogging up your blacklist.

Because the people that matter to get things done are on JP servers, so they don't really understand the severity. The minimal banning they do (yes, thousands of accounts when dealing with RMT is considered minimal), because of the lack of occurrences on JP servers, will always seem like the only necessary step to take. Maybe our GMs aren't able to express these things due to limitations in protocol (or they're just bad at relaying collected information to the necessary folks in Japan). It's not an apparent issue to them, so there's no need to work on something as small of a QoL change as right-click report... yet.

Leviathan just now had 37 DIFFERENT bots spamming RMT /tells in the span of 10min. I was AFK for a while, came back to that... decided to count it up. Quite a high number as of late, whereas normal is maybe 15 or so different ones every 10min. Unnecessarily long messages per /tell, as we are all aware of... we, as in those of us on NA/EU servers.

RMT are rather clever for this game, in that they know not to mess too much with JP servers (as they easily could, regardless of profitable outcome). It really doesn't have too much to do with less buyers on those servers. When they really made their presence known across every server at launch, that was when SE stepped up to stem it. Now, they don't do that for every server because it's a lot more problematic. If all you do is bot, it really doesn't matter about the "effort" put in lol. It's not like RMT tend to dig into their own pockets to support these thousands of banned accounts, afterall.

[slml320]

But you right there gave me such a good reason to come back to a thread. Funny how you say unsubstantiated when everything you just quoted from me had been done in other games and only worked but so well.

to put it in plain terms for you tiggy you spin your bs as if you know everything.. you always have and always will in all the posts you have made in this thread have been nothing more than a claim that se has done this doing everything they can they AND will fix the situation.. enlighten us all to your source tiggy… PLEASE BECAUSE IM INTERESTED TO KNOW!! While I'm on it answer me why you come here and still spout crap on things that have very little bearing on you? .. as your server doesnt have much rmt as you have said!!

[KisaiTenshi]

As annoying as it is, why not use captcha verification when making new accounts. characters?

And maybe do it every once in a while if a person doesn't have a security token?

Although I don't think it'll be too effective

It's completely ineffective. They just capture the captcha request and run it through OCR or some crowd-sourced AI solver where people are paid pennies to do it.

The only real solution to combating RMT and Spam would require everyone to have a unique token to login. If you think people have enough problems remembering passwords, just wait till you have to find that Amiibo to login.