Gold Spammers

[Alisi]

Everytime I get a friend request from one of these gilsellers I noticed they are brand new characters (level 1) I believe the game needs some restrictions for new accounts a level requirement to lvl30 or maybe after 1st month of subscription to unlock /shout or /tell will help, maybe not to eliminate the problem definetely will be alot less spam on in the chat window.

I don't think that would really work. I've been noticing all the level 50 BLMs that pop up on my server with either nonsense names or the same last name, and it's quite obvious that they're bots. So they apparently have found a way around the level requirement, which is rather troubling if you consider that. Would they've been able to level themselves up? I could see running a handful of bots to 50 but when I see these clumps, there's always like 5 or 10 of them and they all have different names. I think I would've noticed hundreds of bots running around on my server. It would be too odd.

[Maero]

I seen one better the other day, blm bots were invisible. I seen fire and ice being cast but no visible players, until i got to a ridge then the players were partially visible and seen a portion of their names.

[SummerSkye]

There are many threads on the RMT issue in this game, but I must reiterate that this is the single biggest issue facing this game moving forward. The reason is what you see in this thread. New players. Every MMO *needs* an influx of new players coming in for it to remain viable. There is no other MMO on the market today that requires a monthly subscription that has RMT on THIS level. The competition is only getting tighter in the MMO genre. I love this game, but new players will not take this game serious and subscribe when they are getting walls of RMT spam. They will take their interest and their money elsewhere and that does not bode well for this game.

[abacab1973]

Enough is enough, SE. You are failing us as badly as you possible can. Please, do something about this now! Limit the number of different players someone can 'tell' within a period of time, impose level caps on tells, ban new players from telling for some time (until they have actually paid a subscription, for example), employee people to monitor the situation late at night (a particularly bad time for spam)... whatever it takes, because the situation is now a joke.

You have taken tens, maybe hundreds, of millions from your customers - how about spending a small, small fraction of that to actually look after them in return?

You are failing us!!!

[Cakekizy]

Why not just give us a whitelist option. If enabled then we could be flagged as /busy to non-FC members and non-friends while not restricting interactions with those on whitelist.

[Starcade]

FFS, are you going to do anything about these people? The tells are ridiculous.

Unless you disable tells or set status to busy you get 50 tells per hour, each from some new name so blacklisting is just an exercise in futility.

Why can't you pay some people to play the game and insta ban each spam account they get a tell from?

Frankly, because I believe Square-Enix gets a cut from these outfits.

I remember zoning into Ul'Dah on Exodus today and was literally assaulted by FOUR different websites spamming me for RMT crap.

[Aeika]

I wish there was something like a Whitelist option.
Disable all tells, unless theyre a friend or in my whitelist.

[Morbid]

I've finally just gone to muting the /tell along with it being in separate chat window. It makes recruiting for an FC a pain; not like many are interested in joining but this makes it difficult to finding ones that are.

Just created a LS for invite/private convo use.