Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[LandricFrey]

SE service has been absolute crap since the early 1980's why on earth would you expect it to change now, don't get me wrong I whole heartedly agree with your sentiment but in truth this will be doing nothing. They will not listen to you they will not change. If you saw the bashing they took over Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, and saw that even in the gigantic out cry of hatred of that game. They still did nothing. I know people that would call them five or six times a day and they got the same line every time about how it was being handled but it wasn't. If it will make you feel better to do this then by all means, but all of you should curve yourself in the most likely case that you will be disappointed.

I actually kind of liked Mystic Quest, though I'm glad it wasn't a numbered entry in the series.

They do listen to us; I was happy to see Terra's theme make it in even though it took a long time. They've responded to and fulfilled other requests given on the forums too. I think that's it, we just have to keep at them and maybe, eventually, they will do something about it. Better late than never.

[Eye_Gore]

Before I could ignore the tells. They didn't really bother me. Shouts they do now, again ignored and gone before you can blacklist. One thing that can't be ignored, the friend requests. Well you could but you would have that on your screen forever.

The RMT people are so bad that now their player names are their websites. It doesn't get much worse than that. They are just thumbing their nose at us. They are pretty much calling you out saying there isn't anything you can do and we aren't going anywhere.

So it seems they don't want to do chat/level filters which has been asked more times than one can count. How about a different approach. So these tells and friend requests are using some sort of PC based program to search players names and bombard them with such spam, right? Now I could be wrong, but how else are they getting our names? Using the player search function.

Now how many of us actually use that? Show of hands. Me personally have never used it to find someone. Anyone I actually communicated in game with was standing right in front of me, as was I with legit people who talked to me.

Disable the player search function, it seems to be not working as intended.

[Kaela]

add my name, Kay'la Yukinekove, of Goblin. I am tired of the bs bots.

[Yubelchen]

It´s not so extrem on Zodiark, but it is still annoying and new players have started to ask higher characters about this during the Easter Event FATEs. A few of them couldn´t understand that this RMT guys are Bots. "But you have to pay for the game, how can Bots be in this game?"
I couldn´t explain this, just tell them to ignore or blacklist this guys and never take a look on thier websites.

I have to signed this, i want to avoid that new players fell for that trap...and i also don´t want to get that /tell messages and friend requests anymore >__>

/signed Eral Lorca, Zodiark

[Aerowaffle]

Reported more farming bots just now. One of which I remember reporting a while back (my browser remembers it too). It was level 20 something when I first reported this one, now the bot is level 50, purely by farming shards and crystals.

If SE were prompt in dealing with farming bots, it would cut into RMT's source of gil. Rather than waiting to try and find more, by then the damage has been done and the gil has been sold.

[Bloodmoon]

Zalera server is overrun. You can't have even have an active /tell channel because this spam comes through every 30 seconds. Okay, so we B-list the first 200 of these people. Contrary to popular belief these characters do not get deleted. Maybe 5 of my 200 have been deleted since I came to Zalera about a year ago. They must have died of natural causes, because nothing is being done. Now /shout channel is at risk, because the RMT have taken to simply spamming /shout all day long since no one wants to use /tell anymore. We've been cut off at the knee communication-wise in the form of the prohibitive use of /tells and /shouts. These people are hijacking our game time and our freedom to use a product we paid and continue to pay for on a monthly basis the way it was intended. Are we, the non-RMT partaking community, the majority or the minority here?

[Bloodmoon]

It feels like the latter, because these people are not disappearing. Their characters aren't even getting deleted. Open-world communication on Zalera is discouraged and therefore near non-existent thanks to the lack of activity against RMT behavior, a policy which severely needs a redesign.I think we as paying customers are entitled to speedy action against offenders. They aren't simply guilty of RMT, they're guilty of harassment. These people actually have the guts to name their characters to the like of "Ggatm'com Sellgilv," a name I liken to an illegal alien carrying a sign reading, "Undocumented and unafraid." This is the actual name of a character who has attempted to 'befriend' me in the time it took me to write this paragraph. They befriend you so that you have to take more steps before you can actually B-list them, therefore they have more time to harass you. The atmosphere on this server in particular is truly pathetic, and SE ought to be ashamed to let it continue.

[Sramdi]

/signed

Please add me. The lack of action on SE's part is getting frustrating.

Sramdi Nitodus, Hyperion

[Saseal]

Zalera server is overrun. You can't have even have an active /tell channel because this spam comes through every 30 seconds. Okay, so we B-list the first 200 of these people. Contrary to popular belief these characters do not get deleted. Maybe 5 of my 200 have been deleted since I came to Zalera about a year ago. They must have died of natural causes, because nothing is being done. Now /shout channel is at risk, because the RMT have taken to simply spamming /shout all day long since no one wants to use /tell anymore. We've been cut off at the knee communication-wise in the form of the prohibitive use of /tells and /shouts. These people are hijacking our game time and our freedom to use a product we paid and continue to pay for on a monthly basis the way it was intended. Are we, the non-RMT partaking community, the majority or the minority here?

Characters aren't deleted when the accounts are banned - characters are deleted by their owners to avoid detection. You won't know which bots are banned and which aren't. There's almost no point to Blisting them (I've switched to using the blist for the constant RMT shouters. I'm looking at you, New Gridania and Ul Dah).
But in agreeance, Couerl is over-run also, and it's crippled the Tell system.

[Iromi]

I thought for sure by now they'd have added right click and report or something...but wow, they're still just saying nothing...