Five RMT messages in 20 seconds.... :(

[Rendecrow]

Last night I got 5 RMT messages in twenty seconds. It is really out of hand on my server. There was so much spam in my chat box that the chat box might as well have been broken. Square Enix really needs to fix this.

Here are some solutions to the problem:

1. Ban the buyers. Less buyers will force the sellers out of the market. (Banning sellers means nothing as they usually just hack accounts, so banning buyers is what you have to do.)

2. Promote security tokens more. Far to many players in the community do not use this simple security device due to sheer ignorance of how much protection it gives. More protection overall means less hacked accounts by gill sellers and less overall spam.

3. Be aggressive about this. A big reason why gil sellers in China are becoming so bold as to have their websites in their character names is because they feel like it is something they can get away with.

[Landonian]

Oh look, this thread again.

[Rendecrow]

Oh look, this thread again.

So long as every time I log into the game I get a /tell before the loading screen even finishes loading, I will keep bringing it up.


This is a BIG issue that square enix needs to fix.

[Tanama]

This indeed is a huge issue. Square Enix really needs to step their game up. All of these weekly reports of them banning RMT seems to be having no effect. I have just returned from a long break and the RMT spam has gotten a lot worse since then. How embarrassing.

[Lumidus]

Pretty sure its impossible to stop RMT without causing some sort of freedom taken away from players.

[Teryaani]

Pretty sure its impossible to stop RMT without causing some sort of freedom taken away from players.

I don't think eliminating RMT altogether is what's being asked for here. We just want to not be bothered by spammers. Most measures (increased time between tells, require minimum level for /tell and /shout) would only be temporary fixes at best before the spammers get a work around.

If they added a right click > report spam that had an automated temp suspension tied to it once the number of reports against an account hit a certain threshold (it's important that it be by account as they swap characters so much) it would probably help even more.

It's possible to make it unprofitable for the sellers to advertise in game. Other games have done it.

[Rendecrow]

Pretty sure its impossible to stop RMT without causing some sort of freedom taken away from players.

Pretty sure I have an extensive history over the last 10 years with WoW, Eve Online, Runescape, and many other MMOs which have had the same issues with RMT in the past. Every one of those games managed to bring it under control with only minor inconveniences to the playerbase. If they can do it, FF14 can do it too.

P.S. Sorry if I come off as rude, but it really bugs me when people act as though there is nothing that can be done. There is actually a lot that can be done with very few negative effects to the playerbase.

Example: Limit 5 tells every 20 seconds or something like that. It would slow down the spammers a lot, while only effecting a small portion of the playerbase. Not many people send that many tells that quickly for legitimate reasons.

[Iromi]

Something needs to be done :/

Can we at least have the right click to report them and auto silence them after so many reports?

[m3eansean]

A vast majority of the tells are from level 1 "players" as well. If they could just limit your ability to send a tell until you get your airship access or something it would solve a significant portion of this.

Or at minimum allow only 1 /tell every 5 minutes for players under level 10.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

The large problem with the fixes given is that rmt will just log out, create a new char, and then log back in, no impact whatsoever done to their ability to spam.