Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[AeraLure]

I could see on a free MMO, but on one with a paid subscription I think there is no excuse to have let it continue.

[MihaelB]

I could see on a free MMO, but on one with a paid subscription I think there is no excuse to have let it continue.

Especially after at least two years with no real productivity despite filling up servers with people to prevent more account production which isn't a solution.

[Negafox]

Personally I loathe the RMT messages, but ar they not a necessary evil? Personally I believe we kinda need them like the US needs illegal immigrant workers; they farm the mats we're too busy/lazy to farm. [SNIP] The RMT will keep trying to farm/sell their wares, and hopefully enough gil buyers get nailed so the RMT are unable to sell the gil, but they'll still try and we still get cheap mats we really don't want to farm/pay exuberant prices for.

No -- they are NOT a necessary evil. I should not be constantly bombarded with unwanted private messages. I should not see /say spam when standing near a marketboard. The gil spammers use bots for farming mats and artificially manipulating marketboard prices -- flooding the economy with gil to those with cash and making players staying within the rules poor. It makes it difficult to legitimately farm mats to earn gil because they use bots to farm and sell insanely cheap (little to no manpower required).

[RosaBlanche]

where do we sign this petition? I asked SE 6 times to give me a "block /tells from free trialers" option but it's like they dont care.

[Gilthanis_Tremaine]

where do we sign this petition? I asked SE 6 times to give me a "block /tells from free trialers" option but it's like they dont care.

Players on Free Trial can't send Tells.

[Chat Restrictions]
- The chat options /shout, /yell, and /tell cannot be used by Free Trial characters.

[BreathlessTao]

Ok so I just got a tell, and the usual

【20000K Gil ==54 U'sd】.

isn't even any surprising anymore.
But then what's the next thing in that message? Get this:

Lots of LV 180 (HQ) items on hot sale.especially top-level disciples of war& hand.

Idk if this is actually new, I certainly haven't seen this before personally, so I'm a bit baffled right now. It's not even gil anymore, it's top-tier HQ crafted items that they're selling? As if the markets and crafting aren't total trainwrecks anyway; as if gil itself isn't bad enough. WAKE UP SE!?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I don't get why they would advertise ilvl 180 gear when you can't even craft gear that high yet. Unless...can the 180 PvP gear be crafted?

[Kio]

I know the special task force works hard, but the situation on many servers just hasn't improved at all in a full on year. Can we please have better means of dealing with this? The available methods suggested to us thus far just aren't effective or sustainable.

[Felghanna]

Cael'ureos Heavenscar - Midgardsormr

[Ashkendor]

I don't get why they would advertise ilvl 180 gear when you can't even craft gear that high yet. Unless...can the 180 PvP gear be crafted?

You can craft i180 stuff. It's astral silk/griffin leather/adamantite.