The #1 Question Asked For The Letter From The Producer:

[Elmeron]

Was about RMT. On almost every page of the thread that was the question that was brought up by players, and always the community upvoted these questions because we wanted an answer so desperately... We got zero response in regards to the number one question. Are you kidding SE?

It'd already reached the point of ridiculous, but to continue to ignore the community that makes your game possible is so disrespectful! We practically begged for some kind of answer for the next Live Letter from the Producer, and got zilch.

I'm honestly starting to think about canceling my pre-order because I'm starting to feel like this issue isn't going to be addressed by the expansion, and I can already see the RMT issue becoming twice as bad once the expansion hits, and as it stands now, it's already bad enough, so to me, that much RMT in a game is just unimaginable.

I love this game and had thought that SE was trying to turn around and improve their image, but clearly I was mistaken in that regard. I don't understand what's so hard about addressing this issue. The community has offered up plenty of solutions, and other MMORPGs have found ways to solve this issue! It's not as if this is something that is unfixable! For one, maybe start by hiring more than three bloody people to handle RMT across all worlds (I seriously feel bad for these three people by the way, they must have absolutely no life outside of constantly banning the RMT people, since they are the only ones working on this)!

I don't want to quit this MMORPG. I have been playing MMORPGs since Perfect Word (my first MMORPG that I played, as you can tell, my tastes have improved considerably lol), and FFXIV is the first MMORPG where I have actually made progress when it comes to endgame. For an MMORPG to have a grip on my imagination and subscription like that, isn't easy, and I probably won't find an MMORPG like that again, at least not for a very long time.

I just don't understand why this is still even an issue... It shouldn't be. It just shouldn't.

[Nadrojj]

Lol cancelling your pre-order because of tell spam? Do you blist and report each one? I only get maybe one tell a day on Balmung, when i do /blist add <ctrL+R>.

[Elmeron]

Lol cancelling your pre-order because of tell spam? Do you blist and report each one? I only get maybe one tell a day on Balmung, when i do /blist add <ctrL+R>.

Your World is in the rare category then. Most players in other NA worlds receive spam at a ridiculous rate, and now we are getting friend requests and seeing spam in /shout. Also, yes, I'd cancel my pre-order because of tell spam. Especially when it's been getting progressively worse and worse and SE has completely ignored all requests for transparency when it comes to this issue. That shows me they don't care about the playerbase that exists outside of Japan and that doesn't make me feel great about supporting them.

On the other note, "Do you blist and report each one?" No offense, but you really must be clueless at just how bad it is on other Worlds. If I were to do that, that is all I would be doing, and wouldn't ever be actually playing the game. That is how bad it is.

[kupokage]

The ordeal with these tell spams... Would it be too farfetched to think that SE themselves, at this point, are the ones advertising gil for cash? "They got rid of the hookers, now they're undercover to catch the johns" type of thing. Just a thought.

[Mugiawara]

Lol cancelling your pre-order because of tell spam? Do you blist and report each one? I only get maybe one tell a day on Balmung, when i do /blist add <ctrL+R>.

Balmung is near 24/7 lock-down but there must've been short period of time where the window was open.
The Gil sellers are getting worse, one even Friend Requested me yesterday and about 6 tells throught-out the day.
2 within an hour and one of them just now as I type this.
Using Balmung as an example of "I rarely get a tell" is bad because of what I said above, and any other that's near lock-down.
Believe it or not, other servers are ran rampant of RMT's, we just don't see. It actually does ruin peoples experience and many have
left because of it. People shouldn't have to play RMT police, report, blacklist be full to the brim, remove /tells and do
100 other things to enjoy the game. For every one we report, 600 million just back en masses.
I still have the same folks for months on my end. It was worse when I was on Leviathan.

[NorthernLadMSP]

Lol cancelling your pre-order because of tell spam? Do you blist and report each one? I only get maybe one tell a day on Balmung, when i do /blist add <ctrL+R>.

Honestly, if you've been on Balmung your whole gaming time, you have no clue what other servers go through. I've been on Balmung for about a week now, and the spam here is unbelievably different than it is on other servers. On Balmung, it really is only a tell or two a day.

However, as having come from Leviathan, I can assure you that not all servers have it as good as Balmung. During my time on Leviathan, I would get tells constantly. You see constant shout spam messages (up to 10 times in a row every few minutes) every time you visit the 4 major cities. You get friend requests everyday from Ughghsk Didhdkd. It's annoying as hell.

[Nadrojj]

Balmung is near 24/7 lock-down but there must've been short period of time where the window was open.
The Gil sellers are getting worse, one even Friend Requested me yesterday and about 6 tells throught-out the day. 2 within an hour and one of them just now as I type this.
Using Balmung as an example of "I rarely get a tell" is bad because of what I said above, and any other that's near lock-down.
Believe it or not, other servers are ran rampant of RMT's, we just don't see. It actually does ruin peoples experience and many have
left because of it. People shouldn't have to play RMT police, report, blacklist be full to the brim, remove /tells and do
100 other things to enjoy the game. For every one we report, 600 million just back en masses.
I still have the same folks for months on my end. It was worse when I was on Leviathan.

Honestly, if you've been on Balmung your whole gaming time, you have no clue what other servers go through. I've been on Balmung for about a week now, and the spam here is unbelievably different than it is on other servers. On Balmung, it really is only a tell or two a day.

However, as having come from Leviathan, I can assure you that not all servers have it as good as Balmung. During my time on Leviathan, I would get tells constantly. You see constant shout spam messages (up to 10 times in a row every few minutes) every time you visit the 4 major cities. You get friend requests everyday from Ughghsk Didhdkd. It's annoying as hell.

Fair enough. I guess I just am ignorant to the issue since our world is on constant lock down like mentioned before. To let something like tell spam steer you away from playing a game imo is a bit ridiculous but hey your money your choice. Good luck.

[RiceisNice]

Fair enough. I guess I just am ignorant to the issue since our world is on constant lock down like mentioned before. To let something like tell spam steer you away from playing a game imo is a bit ridiculous but hey your money your choice. Good luck.

You really have to put it in perspective. It gets pretty bad when you get spams every couple of minutes or so; your only choice would be to deal with it or isolate whispers (as well as trades and party invites) entirely including genuine ones from other players.

They're both really shoddy alternatives to something that's been going on (and getting progressively worse) for a while now.

[Gyson]

Lol cancelling your pre-order because of tell spam? Do you blist and report each one? I only get maybe one tell a day on Balmung, when i do /blist add <ctrL+R>.

Er.. I'm on Balmung also, and there are times where if I'm getting only one RMT tell per 10 minute window I'm thanking my lucky stars.

Half a year ago it didn't seem this bad, but lately those tells are coming in really often.

[Airget]

It'd already reached the point of ridiculous, but to continue to ignore the community that makes your game possible is so disrespectful! We practically begged for some kind of answer for the next Live Letter from the Producer, and got zilch.

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