RMT - I'm done with this game

[elisis]

After giving loads of suggestions in-game, through support center, and here, the only response I got (besides from some fellow users who are as mad as I am about RMT and SE's lack of action) was being banned from the forums.
Instead of hearing the complaints of hundreds of players and doing something about it, Square-Enix chooses to do nothing but silence whoever complains. Where are we? North Korea? Cuba? We can't talk about the problems anymore? And we don't deserve an official answer from Square-Enix?
It's not like we are begging for a favor. We are actually paying for a service (to play and enjoy the game). And as far as this service goes, it's one of the worst I've seen.
The social side of the game is beyond crippled. We can't stay logged in without being /busy, or else spambots spam and friend request us every minute.
I'll probably keep playing until Heavensward comes out. That is, keep playing it as a single player game (tells disabled / busy / unable to communicate properly). After that, I'm done... won't keep playing this game to be treated this way.

If you want to be lawful neutral and ban me from the forums for having told some inconvenient truths, then BE lawful neutral and ban everyone buying and selling gil daily. I'd gladly accept the ban if I knew it would be done to the ones really breaking the game.

[Cyclingsofa]

Action against illicit behavior is good and all but will only get you so far. The damage is already done by that point.

You need better prevention methods - Go talk to the guys making FFXIV APP about their simple regex filters, and please for the love of god make it simpler to deny friend requests.
Pressing "no" only to have to go into your friends list, scroll all the way down and decline again is so dumb it's beyond belief.
If it's a real friend they can always send you another request of you misclick, no loss...

Prevention > Action every four weeks...

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I thought the RMT situation was really good in this game on Phoenix when I joined around 2.2, but it's become worse and worse with time. Now it's not just /tell's, it's friend requests. Direct harassment, Square Enix.
I had a big fat friend request from a stupid gilseller stuck in the middle of my screen during the last few, but very long story cutscenes - it completely ruined the mood because I for forgot to set myself as busy.

Fix that shi-...

[Tanji]

I've counted 17 friend requests since Friday on Faerie, and in the 30 minutes I've been on this morning I've received 9 tells. This is insane and has been getting worse and worse as time goes on. It's past time this was changed.

[Riepah]

Yep, the RMT situation is unacceptable for a pay-to-play game - it's nothing short of an atrocity. And SE doesn't even acknowledge that there is an issue in the first place, they just keep ignoring all the threads and complaints. It's shameful and disheartening.

[Brightsayge]

lol, I wonder if SE has a big bucket of your tears sitting in their hq. you should all quit, that'll show SE.

[Cyclingsofa]

lol, I wonder if SE has a big bucket of your tears sitting in their hq. you should all quit, that'll show SE.

We only complain because we care. Those who don't have already left.

Do you have a problem with that?

[Brightsayge]

I care too. that is why I suggested you quit.

[T2teddy]

We only complain because we care. Those who don't have already left.

Do you have a problem with that?

No she's got a problem with an inflated ego, apparently.

On topic, though, I'll not let the gilspammers drive me off. That's just silly. I don't even use busy or disallow tells. It only takes 5 seconds to BL, and at the end of the day, I send in the reports.

[Kyouki]

No she's got a problem with an inflated ego, apparently.

On topic, though, I'll not let the gilspammers drive me off. That's just silly. I don't even use busy or disallow tells. It only takes 5 seconds to BL, and at the end of the day, I send in the reports.

Well it seems you play on a server that is a bit more lucky with "less" RMT... On Goblin i blacklist 10-30 each hour and i play a lot during the day. Not to mention all the friend requests from Wanttosell Gildotcom (no real name, just similar). We have lots of FC's with exactly 18 members. 2x lvl 1 and 16x lvl50 blackmages. They farm dungeons, they claim monsters in the field, warping around underground. I see tons of mining bots that i have reported over and over again and i run into them every day, no matter what time i go dig up my map. Sometimes i believe there are more bots hanging around on my server than real players :/

[seekified]

Cerberus is okay, I usually get one friend request and one tell per night. Still, it's annoying and I'm surprised nothing's been done as of yet.