Rampant botting and RMT..nothing being done

[Noshpan]

Nothing happening, eh? I guess it's because they're not being more public about it like Arena Net was with that pvp cheater, but then, neither is Blizzard. Blizzard will only say "x amount of accounts for cheating were banned". Also, speaking of Blizzard, the staff that they have allocated to different features of World of Warcraft alone is many times bigger than the staff that SE has allocated to Final Fantasy XIV.

The anti-cheating staff for FF XIV has to thoroughly investigate every single report because they don't want to accidentally ban someone whom was maliciously reported by a troll. Because if they just banned or suspended every single reported account, then there would be a slew of threads filled with people saying that their account was wrongly reprimanded. So dealing with the rmt and botting and cheating takes a painfully long time.

So patience, patience. Not even Blizzard is always capable of doing something immediately.

Right now, I'd just settle for an easier method to report and mute spam bots (so I don't have to empty out my blacklist so frequently).

[Teryaani]

Nothing happening, eh?

Most of us aren't saying that they're doing nothing. What we're saying is that what they're doing isn't stopping the spam. Because it isn't. Botting and gil selling is going to keep happening, I think most of us just want the being bothered to stop.

The bots and RMT sellers are on the JP servers just as much as they are on the other servers. The only difference is that there they do not spam/send whispers/send friend requests...because they know better than to shake the hornets nest in the owners' back yard.

I think that's part of it. They do send /tells on JP servers, but only in text swapped English to defeat the filters and it's much much more rare. I suspect that it isn't as lucrative to advertise that way which is exactly where I wish we could get on NA/EU servers. In other conversations about this, it's been made perfectly clear to people that players on JP servers buy gold. It's just marketed differently.

[SummerSkye]

In other conversations about this, it's been made perfectly clear to people that players on JP servers buy gold.

Yep. Go make a character on a JP server. Then search for level 50 BLMs. You will see the same army of "Sasfdsg Kldsalld" type names just like on any NA server. The people that say that it is not an issue on the JP servers are simply wrong. That being said, what bothers me most about RMT, is that they deter new players that are trying this game from taking it serious or subscribing. No other subscription based MMO has this level of spam. I know friends who have came out of their initial cut scene to a wall of spam from RMT. Not good. This game, like any MMO, needs new players coming in.