Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Ryaz]

I will agree that this is a problem. I've been away from the game for a year and came back about two weeks ago. I was surprised to see my blacklist was still full of spam accounts that hadn't been deleted. I still get about a half dozen tells and a bunch of friend requests everyday from characters with blatant Gil selling names.

[Pluvia]

I will agree that this is a problem. I've been away from the game for a year and came back about two weeks ago. I was surprised to see my blacklist was still full of spam accounts that hadn't been deleted. I still get about a half dozen tells and a bunch of friend requests everyday from characters with blatant Gil selling names.

When they ban accounts characters don't show as deleted the only characters that show as deleted are ones people deleted or transferred off your server so you should be safe removing all the old ones

[Niwashi]

If they are subject to the same rules as the rest of us then their Spam will be relegated to the ARR areas.

The spam bots themselves have no reason to leave the ARR areas, or indeed their starting city. They can spam people anywhere while remaining there. I expect they'll remain level 1 characters in Ul'dah spamming everyone who's off exploring Ishgard.

The bots accumulating all the gil for them to sell, on the other hand, would do better if they reach the most (gil) profitable content, so those ones may be aiming for HW (if the increase in gil profitability is worth the added real-world cost). But as bots they could also rely on middling-profitable content and just doing lots and lots of it. It'll depend on whether the content they're already doing can keep up with the gil demand of their customers.

Are these 4X Blms actually doing all the quests?

If they are indeed doing expert runs, then they completed all the 2.0 main scenario quests. If they can deal with 2.0, then they can probably manage the 2.1 to 2.55 additions to it.

[Magusrex]

Dummy characters on servers, not real, with random names, if they get a friend request or a tell the person sending the tell/request goes null...meaning they think they are sending requests, messages or shouts but only they see them...It is all automatic without effort and the gil sellers waste their time without even realizing they are not doing anything...how bout it?

[Niadissa]

Just a friendly push to the front page. I know it's been asked and ignored before, but again, can we get a response even if it's just a "Yes we are aware" would be better then the blatant ignoring we have gotten so far.

[Solaria_Luna]

I now have 8 gilseller friend requests which I'm too lazy to get rid of...and I think in the past day (yesterday) I think I heard (as I don't view General chat all that much anymore) 10-15 tells. (I'm starting to get lazy blacklisting the rmt tellers too)

[Zabuza]

Very little time left until HW. We shall see what happens in the next week or two. Then we will ultimately see if they had anything in the works this whole time.

[Rizon]

Very little time left until HW. We shall see what happens in the next week or two. Then we will ultimately see if they had anything in the works this whole time.

Keep dreaming those good dreams.

[Nadirah]

Reporting them needs to be easier. MUCH easier.

[Zabuza]

Keep dreaming those good dreams.

What dreams? I honestly don't expect anything. Just will know for sure when HW comes if our voices were heard at all. If nothing improves, we'll know for sure they did not care about our protests.