Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Mycow8me]

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So is botting DF now how they are earning money and spiritbonding? I think its pretty obvious... Must have something to do with unsynced df.

Theres a few of them that keep appearing next to the market board on cactuar in limsa.

My question is, how does it get this far/go this long unnoticed? What kind of things do they even look for when searching for cheaters. I can tell plain as day.

IMHO this stuffs never gonna end until SE stops trying to tackle the problem themselves. There's plenty of people in the community who would LOVE to help with this problem in any way they could. Even if they just made reporting easier....

[Pluvia]

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Edit your post doesn't matter if he's a bot or not that's going to go down as witch hunting a person and you're going to get banned from the forums

[Mycow8me]

Cant edit it anyway, im on my phone. Won't let me. If i end up banned oh well. An admin could just as easily remove the pic or delete my post. I cant even delete it myself. I could care less, ban the good guys for trying to help.

Nevermind, found a way to load desktop version. Still think the picture was worth more than words. I dont even bother with the current report system for cheaters anymore.

[Grekumah]

Greetings,

We're aware of the increased friend request activity by RMT characters and we’ll be implementing new countermeasures in Patch 3.1. Until then, we ask for your patience and apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused you.

[AlphaFox]

Greetings,

We're aware of the increased friend request activity by RMT characters and we’ll be implementing new countermeasures in Patch 3.1. Until then, we ask for your patience and apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused you.

And about that simple report function we have been asking for practically since day 1 of RMT spam? Cus it sounds like your only mentioning about friend request measures.

[Niwashi]

We're aware of the increased friend request activity by RMT characters and we’ll be implementing new countermeasures in Patch 3.1.

Thanks, but I'd rather you implement some countermeasures against RMT /tell activity, like the ability to report it simply and directly from the chat line (like we've been requesting since the game launched). That's still the far bigger problem.

Still, I guess it's nice to hear at least some minor bit of the issue acknowledged.

[Airget]

Thanks, but I'd rather you implement some countermeasures against RMT /tell activity, like the ability to report it simply and directly from the chat line (like we've been requesting since the game launched). That's still the far bigger problem.

Still, I guess it's nice to hear at least some minor bit of the issue acknowledged.

What good does it do though? You don't get rid of anyone useful if they just squash the bug that appears out of nowhere, you have to find out where the nest is. RMT have to be lulled into a false sense of security to be taken out, to make it to difficult for them to proceed forward however if you just become more and more aggressive towards banning pawns all you do is ban pawns, you don't ban where it hurts, the ones holding the gil.


That's why the feature is kinda pointless, there is already a way to report RMT through support and quite honestly it should be enough, let them know the name and they go from there but quite honestly, do you really think it leaves a good impression when a simple right click would have the option "Report RMT". Consider that for a second and understand why the report function should remain through the support section and not become a part of the right click options when you select a persons name.

[Naunet]

That's why the feature is kinda pointless, there is already a way to report RMT through support and quite honestly it should be enough, let them know the name and they go from there but quite honestly, do you really think it leaves a good impression when a simple right click would have the option "Report RMT". Consider that for a second and understand why the report function should remain through the support section and not become a part of the right click options when you select a persons name.

Wat. Making it difficult to report means LESS people bother with reporting. Making it as easy as "right click-report" means far more people will take the time to report problem characters/accounts.

As for your "false sense of security" strangeness - is that what SE's been doing for the past 3 years? I'd say that whatever sense of security the RMTers have, it is far from false at this point.

[LandricFrey]

Greetings,

We're aware of the increased friend request activity by RMT characters and we’ll be implementing new countermeasures in Patch 3.1. Until then, we ask for your patience and apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused you.

Thanks for listening and keeping us posted! Any countermeasures, no matter how small, will still be much appreciated.

[Derio]

Thank you. And I really would like to thank the OP for creating this formal letter along with the signatures and how well they stated the problem.