Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Diablo13]

HA, as much chance platting fog, they are still around. THAT'S why it appears to everyone that SE is just doing nothing, and these criminals are laughing at them fit to burst.
Such a shame that powerful companies with money and resources can't throw a DDOS attack back at these Muppets I.P.'s, or launch a damaging high frequency carrier wave or something back to the the servers that initiated
these potentially game breaking ATTACKS!Honestly, if we had a drop down menue on the right mouse button, which when clicked on the name, both blacklisted them on our account, and added them automatically to a master blacklist on the game SERVER side, it wouldn't disrupt the game and game management would have the names and details

[Diablo13]

reported quickly, accurately, and directly to them for action. Immediate account suspension, to allow management time to check out details and who was on THEIR "friends" lists and how much in game money was on the accounts, then suspend followed by a ban and ideally prosecution, I think the number of Gill sellers might fall dramatically?

[Diablo13]

Now this post is already far too long, but in the interests of trying to suggest practical solutions; If we had the right click denial of Friendship/Blacklist, 1 button dropdown function in game, it has to be a simple matter for a "sump" in the games software to log a "player" who had lets say twenty friendship refusals in a day, an abnormal amount, without even undertaking an event or moving from his place of inception. That is surely the simplest way to recognise and then block ALL the registered character'S from that originating IP. The people who have the talent to make this great game, surely would have NO PROBLEM putting a small software trap like that in game and the genuine players would most likely be very happy to help SE by reporting these people and clean up OUR game?

[Fenral]

"You can edit your post to bypass the 1000 character limit."™

[BreathlessTao]

Seriously SE, can you please do something about this already? The first thing (literally, the first thing) I see upon exiting the inn room is a THM clone army, all stacked up on Baderon and then teleporting away one by one. The very first thing I see. (Well that and a "new" Support Desk notification about a message I already read and dismissed, but that's another thing.) I'm a veteran, I've been around since before the beginning, I'm (sadly) used to the phenomenon. But I can't imagine what it must feel like for all the new players. Heck, it even frustrates me. And I'm not new by any definition.

[Zabuza]

Seriously SE, can you please do something about this already? The first thing (literally, the first thing) I see upon exiting the inn room is a THM clone army, all stacked up on Baderon and then teleporting away one by one. The very first thing I see. (Well that and a "new" Support Desk notification about a message I already read and dismissed, but that's another thing.) I'm a veteran, I've been around since before the beginning, I'm (sadly) used to the phenomenon. But I can't imagine what it must feel like for all the new players. Heck, it even frustrates me. And I'm not new by any definition.

Most new players who start playing on Heavensward won't stick around for this reason. But SE seems content to let their digital world burn... at least in North American servers. Have read people complaining about this even on other sites now, the word is becoming more widespread. If it's like this on HW, SE will become known for this by the general gaming public. It will be a certain black mark for the western market they wish to sell to.

[tocsin]

Have read people complaining about this even on other sites now, the word is becoming more widespread.

That may be the best way to get SE to address the issue, at this point. I would encourage people to start sending in submissions and requests for articles to be posted on popular gaming sites, highlighting the issue as the plague that it is. once IGN, PCMag, and Gamespot start making articles, and creating actual bad publicity, maybe it may be addressed.

[Zorvan]

Such a shame that powerful companies with money and resources can't throw a DDOS attack back at these Muppets I.P.'s, or launch a damaging high frequency carrier wave or something back to the the servers that initiated

Where's ANONYMOUS when we need them, eh?

[Symbiant]

We will just place the same post from the other thread

I find this quite comical
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...ea451db7426145
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...e4f354761a51eb
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...4cf9d31e16ce16
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...ba6cfe299b32bf
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...7cd96e929640ec
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...e8ebe4f3e86269

So that's 50756 accounts banned in 2 months let us do the math kiddos

50756 * $12.99 = $659,320.44 * 12months = $7,911,845.28

So now they cut into what the company makes by $659,320.44 a month and $7,911,845.28 a year.

This is just for two months. I know over all its a lot more but, I am not going to dig around for it to prove a point I think I have done enough. If they did not care they would not do this.

On the thread you posted a great deal of the posts are the same people yapping about it. Now I am not saying that RMT is not a real thing but, I would say very little of the game population actually post on this forum.

So in the end you should thank them for at least trying. Also if you know how to fix the RMT without screwing innocent people over then why don't you contact them and tell them exactly how to do it since you seem to have all the answers?

[Zabuza]

We will just place the same post from the other thread

I find this quite comical
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...ea451db7426145
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...e4f354761a51eb
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...4cf9d31e16ce16
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...ba6cfe299b32bf
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...7cd96e929640ec
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...e8ebe4f3e86269

So that's 50756 accounts banned in 2 months let us do the math kiddos

50756 * $12.99 = $659,320.44 * 12months = $7,911,845.28

So now they cut into what the company makes by $659,320.44 a month and $7,911,845.28 a year.

This is just for two months. I know over all its a lot more but, I am not going to dig around for it to prove a point I think I have done enough. If they did not care they would not do this.

On the thread you posted a great deal of the posts are the same people yapping about it. Now I am not saying that RMT is not a real thing but, I would say very little of the game population actually post on this forum.

So in the end you should thank them for at least trying. Also if you know how to fix the RMT without screwing innocent people over then why don't you contact them and tell them exactly how to do it since you seem to have all the answers?

You're right about one thing, very little of the game population posts on these forums. If every player posted on the forums, this would be at least 5x as large, I guarantee you that, and almost all of the replies would agree with me, not yourself. Not taking the time to type a dev reply is trying? Tons of suggestions have been made, and not every one of them hurts innocent people. Also, I have tried to contact them numerous time with no response.

As nice as those bans look on paper, they are empty numbers. QoL adjustments need to be made, that is the only way to satisfy players at this point. Some of these features are simple to implement and have been asked for for years now, yet there's been no implementation of said features. These bans aren't doing anything, and that's a problem.