Gold Spammers

[Sqrly]

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?

[Risvertasashi]

There are many threads like this. The community is doing its best to reach out to Square Enix about the issue. Unfortunately, we seem to mostly be falling on deaf ears, but we are still trying.

/busy, although a terrible solution, may help you keep your sanity.

[repoe]

As in all MMO games, RMT is always a cancer. Its like whack a mole, they can keep banning, but more will just pop up. I just tune them out.

[Alisi]

As in all MMO games, RMT is always a cancer. Its like whack a mole, they can keep banning, but more will just pop up. I just tune them out.

There are better ways of dealing with them. I've never played a game before this that had so many. Even WoW dealt with them way better than this game does. I thought seeing a couple shouts was annoying until I started this game...

[repoe]

Never played wow. But I recall something about their responce was starting their own gill selling option? I may be wrong but whatever

[Conradus]

Never played wow. But I recall something about their responce was starting their own gill selling option? I may be wrong but whatever

No, I bet you're thinking of Eve Online, who did it in a limited self-regulating fashion. You can't directly buy ISK (the in-game currency) for real money. at least not legally (even with this program, Eve has gold sellers). What you CAN buy for real money is a "PLEX". A PLEX can is an in-game item that can be redeemed for a month's play time that costs a little more than subscribing for a month. You can sell this to other players for ISK just like any other item. So what you have is good players who make enough ISK that they can buy PLEX from the bad players and play while paying no real-life money. And you have the bad players who can turn real-life money into ISK by selling PLEX to the good players.

[Alisi]

Never played wow. But I recall something about their responce was starting their own gill selling option? I may be wrong but whatever

LOL. Nope. I'm just saying it's possible to deal with these gold sellers. Wow does it and they didn't do it by caving in to them. You don't get any whispers from gold sellers. The most you get is a shout in trade 3 or 4 times an hour. I played WildStar and even they had figured out ways to deal with it when that game was only a few months old.

It's a nuisance. It can destroy the economy of a server. Accidentally clicking something these people send to you could possibly put your entire computer at risk with key loggers. And it brings into question how they deal with our personal information if something as simple as gold sellers can't or aren't dealt with in a reasonable way.

Perhaps you are simply used to it. Coming from games where you NEVER get this, this was nearly a deal breaker to me.

[Maero]

Tbh the rmt situation is out of hand since Gold Saucer.
I must have my status set to busy, soon as it's off i get blasted by nonsense. Well over 20 in a hr is just annoying especially when crafting for example

[Niwashi]

As in all MMO games, RMT is always a cancer. Its like whack a mole, they can keep banning, but more will just pop up.

All MMOs have to struggle with this problem. The difference is that most of them actually put some effort into doing so, and keep the levels of RMT down to a barely perceptible minimum. SE on the other hand, despite putting together a "task force" to deal with assorted types of cheating and botting, hasn't bothered to put any tools into the game at all to prevent it. They're basically just letting the RMT run wild, as no other major game does.

[YukiNoir]

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.