Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[T2teddy]

• Thirty day restriction on new accounts disabling the creation of more than one character per world.
  
• Thirty day HOLD on the deletion of any character.
  
• In chat/tell, right click and report RMT post.
  
• Once 25+ people have all reported the same RMT, that account is auto-silenced and put in suspension for review.

Four simple ways, which combined would probably solve the worst of it.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

You'd have rp'ers throwing a hissy fit if they couldnt make 8 characters instantly when they start the game.

[XxSliphxX]

Honestly the chat spam doesn't bother me at all. I'm VERY good at ignoring things that i don't care about. To be honest i don't even understand how it bothers people so damned much unless you are constantly looking at your chat bar? I dunno....anyway I will add my suggestion. I'm not reading 100+ pages so maybe it's been said, but how about simply making it so you can't send tells until you are lvl 20-25ish or so "other games do this and it works well". It won't get rid of the problem because honestly you will NEVER get rid of the problem unless you completely remove gold AND the auction house from the game "which as we all know will never happen". However this will at least slow the tells down tremendously. Asking for anything else is pretty much futile. All the forum rage in the world won't stop them.

[Zabuza]

Honestly the chat spam doesn't bother me at all. I'm VERY good at ignoring things that i don't care about. To be honest i don't even understand how it bothers people so damned much unless you are constantly looking at your chat bar? I dunno....anyway I will add my suggestion. I'm not reading 100+ pages so maybe it's been said, but how about simply making it so you can't send tells until you are lvl 20-25ish or so "other games do this and it works well". It won't get rid of the problem because honestly you will NEVER get rid of the problem unless you completely remove gold AND the auction house from the game "which as we all know will never happen". However this will at least slow the tells down tremendously. Asking for anything else is pretty much futile. All the forum rage in the world won't stop them.

It's been said. Also, it's easier to ignore if you're a veteran who knows how to turn /tell chimes off and move the /tells to a separate tab. But for new players? Being spammed with the chime in a cutscene? Yeah, no. That's extremely annoying no matter who you are, and the way to turn off those /tell chimes isn't exactly obvious. I had to search around for it for over five minutes the first time.

P.S. I've added a list of suggestions that people have compiled to the OP so that people no longer have to sift through 100+ pages. It is simply a list made by others throughout the thread, signing the petition does not mean you endorse these methods, only the ones listed in my original letter. If anyone has any method that I have missed, let me know.

[XxSliphxX]

It's been said. Also, it's easier to ignore if you're a veteran who knows how to turn /tell chimes off and move the /tells to a separate tab. But for new players? Being spammed with the chime in a cutscene? Yeah, no. That's extremely annoying no matter who you are, and the way to turn off those /tell chimes isn't exactly obvious. I had to search around for it for over five minutes the first time.

I actually still have the chimes going on tells cause i just like the sound of it lol. I know i'm weird but yea it actually doesn't bother me in fact I kinda am used to hearing it every once in awhile.

[SpookRooster]

I guess it's time to be set to busy and set up a linkshell, then...

Heavensward is going to amplify the shit out of this issue. Maybe then, Square will start to care. I've seen the RMTers advertise special deals for the expansion, so I imagine the spam will become more violent. And with the release of the first expansion for this, I hope they'll start taking this seriously to not let it all go to total waste.

But this is Square, so they probably will.

Though, how is Guildwork? I don't really care about all the features they list, but I do have interest in the filter. Does it do what it should without Square banning you?

[Zabuza]

Best to look at reddit for the answer. Just type in guildworks in search on the ffxiv reddit.

Sorry to tell you that in such a roundabout way but again, noone can admit they have it installed if they do. Probably can't link you any of the sites either lol. Sorry.

As soon as one of these messages comes up, I just right click and black list straight away, it is annoying though

That's fine until your blacklist gets full, then it becomes even more annoying.

[KisaiTenshi]

I actually still have the chimes going on tells cause i just like the sound of it lol. I know i'm weird but yea it actually doesn't bother me in fact I kinda am used to hearing it every once in awhile.

I turned the chimes off and turned the Party/Alliance chimes on, and in most cases I regret the Alliance chimes because people are sometimes worse at spamming that with ascii art.

But the thing is, when people try to directly message me, I always miss it because the chime is off.

[Niwashi]

P.S. I've added a list of suggestions that people have compiled to the OP so that people no longer have to sift through 100+ pages. It is simply a list made by others throughout the thread, signing the petition does not mean you endorse these methods, only the ones listed in my original letter. If anyone has any method that I have missed, let me know.

A few more:

• Option settings for whether to allow Friend requests, FC invites, party invites, etc.
• Throttling the rate at which /tell messages can be sent.
• Give the "viewing cutscene" status the same effects as "busy" status, e.g. no /tell messages, Friend requests, etc.
• Modified versions of /busy (e.g. blocking /tell while allowing party invites, or blocking strangers but allowing friends)

But the biggest thing they most need is a combination of #1 on your list, right-click reporting, with a 24/7 staff of GMs monitoring those reports and doing the bans real-time rather than a few weeks later. (If the bots last long enough to be profitable before getting banned, then banning doesn't work. They just get replaced. Immediate bans as soon as they first begin their spam attacks would stop it, since they wouldn't be profitable enough to be worth replacing.)

[Zabuza]

A few more:

• Option settings for whether to allow Friend requests, FC invites, party invites, etc.
• Throttling the rate at which /tell messages can be sent.
• Give the "viewing cutscene" status the same effects as "busy" status, e.g. no /tell messages, Friend requests, etc.
• Modified versions of /busy (e.g. blocking /tell while allowing party invites)

But the biggest thing they most need is a combination of #1 on your list, right-click reporting, with a 24/7 staff of GMs monitoring those reports and doing the bans real-time rather than a few weeks later. (If the bots last long enough to be profitable before getting banned, then banning doesn't work. They just get replaced. Immediate bans as soon as they first begin their spam attacks would stop it, since they wouldn't be profitable enough to be worth replacing.)

I really like the cutscene suggestion. Added all of them to the list.