Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Zabuza]

I guess if two new players who were friends got into the game at the same time they could not whisper each other. Truth be told, ruling everything out then, custom chat filters and banning the gilbuyers are probably the only effective measures.

To be honest, right click report function will make it more convenient for sure, but you guys forget these RMT can just make account after account. That very same fact is the reason increased blacklist capacity won't do too much either. I merely suggest those things because they are easy to implement and will ease the player's minds a bit. Not to mention they should be the standard for MMOs nowadays. But it's really a band-aid and not a cure.

[Tincuptaru]

I guess if two new players who were friends got into the game at the same time they could not whisper each other. Truth be told, ruling everything out then, custom chat filters and banning the gilbuyers are probably the only effective measures.

Most of the time when I am playing with a friend in a new game we use Teamspeak or Skype. We hardly use the chat function at all. If I am meeting new people naturally I will want to text with them over Skype as I don't know them. I have been in MMOs with a tell gate of at least level 10 I've seen some with a tell gate of level 20 to combat the RMT spam. Often times in order to get rid of a disease you need a cure with some side effects.

[Zabuza]

Most of the time when I am playing with a friend in a new game we use Teamspeak or Skype. We hardly use the chat function at all. If I am meeting new people naturally I will want to text with them over Skype as I don't know them. I have been in MMOs with a tell gate of at least level 10 I've seen some with a tell gate of level 20 to combat the RMT spam. Often times in order to get rid of a disease you need a cure with some side effects.

Heh, well said. It's just a shame that RMTs make this something that's had to be done in certain MMOs...