RMT nuisance PLEASE STOP THEM SE

[elemental10]

Supply and demand, my fine friends.

Players keep buying from em, why do they want to stop?

The bigger the playerbase, the more chances someone will actually buy from them.

[MrsFluffyButt]

Two Options:
- /busy
- Turn off/ignore the chat box.

No harm done on your half. Now stop with these pointless threads? That dead horse must be getting tiiiiiicked.

[MrsFluffyButt]

One more thing; You think it's a good, fair idea to ban new players/characters for 72hrs just for sending /tells,/shouts and friend requests? My god, I pray to Hydaleyn that we ain't on the same server.

[MugenMugetsu]

I believe I may have found the only viable option left for dealing with RMT. Just ignore the spam. Go through the 4 button click process of declining their friend requests and just play the game. It's apparent that only the very small handful of RMT that SE are going to ban when the banhammer waves happen will be the ones who are banned. Those RMT will just repurchase the game, make new accounts, make new characters, and continue to spam us until we all pull our hair out to the point that we're all bald, IF we let them get on our nerves. There are SO very many threads. SO very many concerned players. Zero response from any community mod on the issue. It's obvious. We are NOT going to get a response. Sorry to be pessimistic. Truly I am, but I have given up.

When those with the power to actually do something to alleviate the playerbase from the annoyance caused by the RMT choose to only do the little that they actually do, with a STF of only 3 people, and no indication that there will ever be any more than those 3 working on the issue, and with the problem only continuing to be as bad as, if not worse, than it has always been, it's hard to have any faith that it will ever get any better.

Here's to hoping that the game is very successful, and has a very long lifespan, even though a large portion of the playerbase pretty much has to suck it up and deal with the RMT plague with only the very little help that is provided by the company who developed the game and accepts our sub payments. I can only hope that new players are as understanding as we are and decide not to vote with their wallets and that they continue to play the game rather than leave with a bad taste in their mouth due to the fact that SE are not actively banning RMT accounts as quickly as we might like them to.

[Chewy2nd]

SE really need to add features to stop this, it can put new players off. Stuff like detecting certain speech patterns, or making it so you need to reach level 15 or something until you can tell/add friends (only exception being a "recruit a friend friend"). The RMT team they've got is doing a good job, but the root of the problems needs to be tackled.

[Drako]

Indeed, the goal of stamping out RMT in a way that would satisfy this or any community that is bothered by it. Is the same as the goal to achieve world peace. imho

[Malevicton]

Indeed, the goal of stamping out RMT in a way that would satisfy this or any community that is bothered by it. Is the same as the goal to achieve world peace. imho

Sorry for using a rhetorical device. Moving on.

So you really think getting everyone to stop buying gil counts as a 1-step plan? That feels intellectually honest to you?

[Saerydoth]

I accept that there is no magic bullet that will make RMT spam go away. But there needs to be a MUCH easier way for players to report it. Right now you have to fill out a form for each one, and that is FAR too much effort. We should just be able to right click the name - report RMT spam - and have it automatically block that person and remove their text from our chat window. This is the way that the MMO's that have gotten a handle on this have done it. Because most players are not going to go to the trouble to fill out a form every time they get an RMT spam message. But they WILL go to the trouble to right click - report spam.

[Mercuito]

To the OP.

The more you Buy gil the more the RMT on the server know you're a potential customer. The people who get the most amount of spam and tells have probably bought gill in the past. That's why they spam you so much.

I get like 1 friend request a day. No big deal for me. And it's funny cos in this game you don't really need money expect to buy a house and to craft but money is only valid in the crafting circles. In the adventuring circles and pvp circles the best gear is all earned and can't be bought. So to the OP since you know the sites and get spamed a lot I would say you buy gil

[Saerydoth]

To the OP.

The more you Buy gil the more the RMT on the server know you're a potential customer. The people who get the most amount of spam and tells have probably bought gill in the past. That's why they spam you so much.

I get like 1 friend request a day. No big deal for me. And it's funny cos in this game you don't really need money expect to buy a house and to craft but money is only valid in the crafting circles. In the adventuring circles and pvp circles the best gear is all earned and can't be bought. So to the OP since you know the sites and get spamed a lot I would say you buy gil

This isn't really true though. I'm a newcomer to the game. I started 9 days ago. And I've been getting RMT spam starting on day 1. And no I have never bought gold/gil/whatever in any MMO I've ever played. These people are actively looking in the starter areas for new players and spamming them. This is the same pattern they've followed in every MMO I've ever played. Yes, they exist because people do buy gold/gil. But they don't only spam the people who have bought in the past. They spam as many people as they can. I'd love to report every single one of them, there just needs to be an easier way to do so. I really don't have time to fill out forms every time I get a spam, because if I did I wouldn't be able to do anything else.

This isn't my first MMO though, and I know there's no magic bullet SE can use to get rid of these guys. They are a plague on every single MMO out there, big or small. All SE really needs to do is provide us an easy click/report way to report/block these guys, so we don't have to fill out a form and use up space on our blacklist.