Everyone complaining about no action on RMT, please read

[Kayden1010]

I heard last time they got asked an RMT question they legit ignored it.

One day SE is going to have to put this RMT on the very forefront of their list, and I think that day is when Heavensward comes out, when that day comes the servers are going to be overrun by RMT's, and gamers, but so many RMT's that in all likelihood the servers will collapse and the network as well. When that happens SE is gonna have a real issue, with losing real customers and restoring the servers. SE won't lose me as a customer but there are lots of people who will get fed up. Things will completely fall apart and they're gonna know why.

[Zabuza]

One day SE is going to have to put this RMT on the very forefront of their list, and I think that day is when Heavensward comes out, when that day comes the servers are going to be overrun by RMT's, and gamers, but so many RMT's that in all likelihood the servers will collapse and the network as well. When that happens SE is gonna have a real issue, with losing real customers and restoring the servers. SE won't lose me as a customer but there are lots of people who will get fed up. Things will completely fall apart and they're gonna know why.

That's exactly why I have created my petition. I fear what will occur when Heavensward hits the shelves and new players flood in. Sure, I'm frustrated with it myself. However, I desperately want SE to heed this warning, as new players WILL be turned off by the constant RMT spam, 100%. Because of this, they will stop playing, not realizing the good game they will be missing by doing so. To me this is a no brainer. They can increase their profit and success with Heavensward by taking care of this RMT problem. I really hope they understand this fact.

[Kallera]

I heard last time they got asked an RMT question they legit ignored it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember the line being that they didn't want to leak plans causing the rmts to respond and prepare in advance.

But people are losing confidence that the situation is under control, they must " rebuild lost trust", as it were.

[Zabuza]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember the line being that they didn't want to leak plans causing the rmts to respond and prepare in advance.

But people are losing confidence that the situation is under control, they must " rebuild lost trust", as it were.

Well it has been nearly two years now, and the RMTs have actually gained strength as opposed to losing it. It is understandable that people have lost faith in SE's ability to deal with this problem.

[Niwashi]

If they could just add a filter that stops any /tell with a list of the most common offending website ads that would stop a lot. I don't know about other servers, but on Zalera it seems to be three main websites that are constantly at it.

I need to take screenshots as those names probably aren't accurate, but just about every /tell I get is from the same circle of 3-4 gil selling sites. And the pvp one puts spaces between the letters to make it harder to track. It can't be that hard to code that sort of detecting filter, could it? (honest question).

It wouldn't be hard to code, but for it to work they'd need to continuously keep updating their list of blocked "words". Spammers get around this sort of thing by using weird characters in place of the real ones, like writing "www" as "ωщω" or writing ".com" as "• Ç Ω /\/\" and similar variants on their main name, anything that looks close enough for a reader to figure out what it was intended to say.

In order to be effective, a text block list would have to keep being updated with whichever new workaround version the spammers start using. It turns into a race between how fast they can change the text in their ads and how fast SE can update the blocking. So this sort of thing can slow the spam down each time it has to be updated, but then some will get through next time it's SE's turn to need updating for their block list. If maintained well, it can produce some significant improvement, but not a cure.

We used to see this sort of weird spelling in the spam here (apparently from gilsellers assuming the normal versions would be blocked), but lately they haven't even been bothering with that. SE apparently isn't blocking even the standard fully-spelled-out versions of the website names.