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

[Zabuza]

Why do I feel as if I'm the only one not bothered by this. I'm always on, get a lot of spam and I just don't care, I ignore it, move on, and play. I have my chat set so that it will display everything except tells and if I get a tell I'll simply quickly switch over to check what it was and then switch back. Sure they should mediate how much RMT there is but I think cancelling a preorder and saying that they don't care for the community sounds like a child throwing a fit because he didn't get what he wanted. Have fun in whatever other game you want to play! I'll be preparing for Heavensward :P

I also have /tells in a separate tab with the chime off. I usually get a /tell every minute. I rarely even check the tab because I know it's RMT 99.9% of the time. A child throwing a fit? The /tell option has been pretty much taken away. Our social ability has been hamstrung in a genre which thrives on its community and social interactions. This is extremely troubling, as is the constant harassment. If this isn't something to complain about and make the devs acutely aware of, I don't know what is. This issue is so bad it has gotten to the point where it's something worthy even unsubbing over, given SE's lack of initiative to improve the situation.

[JillyBean]

This is exactly why they rarely pull questions from the NA threads. If those latter 63 people had simply upvoted the first post, it would have had 125 likes. Instead, we just like to repeat post for some inane reason and dilute the votes.

They were from two different threads. One about XIV, the other about heavensward. One would assume the same people upvoted in each thread. (I did.)

I also didn't link my similar post from the Heavensward thread. I didn't really think it fit that subject, but others were posting in both threads so I thought I'd get the word out in both, too.

[Rendecrow]

Stopping it starts with the players. Don't buy gil, Don't buy carries/loot drops etc.. Report player's that buy/bot etc. Otherwise I never see rmt going away. Instant gratification is not always worth it.

That's like saying, "I shouldn't have to use a bike lock or lock the doors on my house if people would just stop committing crimes." The reality is that this is not an issue players can solve as there will always be someone who will do it. If you want to cut down on the annoying /tells, it starts by banning the people who buy gil. Eventually enough people will stop buying gil, either because they are banned or are to afraid to buy, that the gil sellers will be forced out of the market. That is the solution to this.

[SummonerSenah]

I have an alt on Jenova that I hardly play and honestly the amount of rmt tells is a big part of it. Why play on Jenova and get constantly harassed when I can play on Balmung where I only get tells directly after a maintenance (that's when they are able to get on the server to make a character) and it's usually only one or two tells a month? The last time I played on Jenova I got hit with probably a tell per minute. It's like someone posted earlier; on the less populated servers you would never actually be able to enjoy the game if you just spent your time reporting every rmt tell. I set myself to busy to counter it but when it comes down to it, that's just a bandaid. There needs to be a long term solution because this is a long term problem. Especially since not everyone has an alt on a heavily populated server they can play with if they want to avoid spam, so it's really in SE's best interest to be more aggressive with getting rid of rmt.

[Elmeron]

Yoshida answered a question about the RMT situation btw:


Source : http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen..._yoshida_this/

Yeah... That seems to be suuuuuper effective.

P.S. Will be spamming your forum SE daily with an update on RMT. See how you freaking like it!

[Wulfyn]

That's like saying, "I shouldn't have to use a bike lock or lock the doors on my house if people would just stop committing crimes." The reality is that this is not an issue players can solve as there will always be someone who will do it. If you want to cut down on the annoying /tells, it starts by banning the people who buy gil. Eventually enough people will stop buying gil, either because they are banned or are to afraid to buy, that the gil sellers will be forced out of the market. That is the solution to this.

Problem is there are players that know others that are buying but don't want to "snitch". Then there is the possibilities of gil being sold to rmt for rl cash, and players knowing who is doing that. The bike and the house comparison would be valid back in the day. Today it is moot since we are talking about online gaming and being a ghost so to speak.

In the end we can all agree that there really needs to be consequences swift and severe.

[tjw]

P.S. Will be spamming your forum SE daily with an update on RMT. See how you freaking like it!

Considering that the forums get spammed daily with updates on 'lag', 'screenshots', 'embarassing moments', 'whines' and other non-important issues, I don't think the moderators will care.

[Yumi_umi]

Busy status made 99% of rmt spam problems go away.
Busy status = new online status.
Don't remember the last time i actually played with online status for more than a minute ( due to trading etc ).

[ServerCollaps]

best way to avoid rmt spam?

transfer to a crowded server with 23/7 character creation limitations and you will nearly never get a tell

got my last rmt tell 2 or 3 weeks ago

[Elmeron]

best way to avoid rmt spam?

transfer to a crowded server with 23/7 character creation limitations and you will nearly never get a tell

got my last rmt tell 2 or 3 weeks ago

I have friends and an FC on my World, so that's not a solution. A lot of people are in the same boat.