Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Arkann]

I'm seriously fed up with all this RMT spam, friend requests, and bot invasions. Report spammers called "Sellgils Sfihdsh" or something like that results in a "We're sorry that you receive a high number of friend requests, but sending friend requests is not against the rules". Even when the spammers are called "Sellgils".

I've been reporting at least 5 different bots a day, everyday, for the last month or so (getting a little obsessed with them). I even found a "nest" where level 50 thaumaturges level their archers to become Black Mages and go farm dungeons together, they farm the microchus at Naked Rock on Moogle, or just stay AFK stacked on top of each other.

I went as far as using /sea and setting filters to track bots. Clusters of AFK Black Mages in the same location (with identical characters/gear), bunches of 15 and below Archers in Central Shroud (the future aforementionned Black Mages),... they're super easy to spot, and checking their Lodestone profiles confims my intuition 100% of the time. They all have tons of alts on other servers using the same name with one more letter in their name/first name.

And of course, there's those botanist/miners bots that gather the same thing in the same gear, all day, ever day. Especially that one I see ALL THE TIME when I go from Eastern Thanalan to Central Shroud to gather my Lucis tokens. I've been reporting him everyday for more than a month now, using both Report Cheating, Report Harassment, Square Enix Support website, and the Lodestone report function. Result ? None.

/signed Yosuke Hanamura, Moogle server