PLEASE change level requirement to whisper ....

[Devils_Lawyer]

Not sure if this will help, when Aion went f2p they made you unable to communicate thru whispers until you were lvl 20 and even then there were still plenty of spammers to go around.

In the end the companies that do this runs it as a bussiness, to them this will just mean a little more work but work that they will do to continue making profit.

[Giantbane]

I'd really just like to have a setting where I only get tells from people on my friends list, linkshells, free company or players i'm currently in a party or alliance with.

That's if I can't have a right click > report RMT that reports their account to SE, removes all tells from them from my chat log, and blacklists their entire acct for at least a week.

[Leshpar]

Not sure if this will help, when Aion went f2p they made you unable to communicate thru whispers until you were lvl 20 and even then there were still plenty of spammers to go around.

In the end the companies that do this runs it as a bussiness, to them this will just mean a little more work but work that they will do to continue making profit.

The difference here is that FF14 is not F2P. When you have to buy the game and get a level 20 character banned for RMT it hurts. Now you have to buy a new game copy and make a new account. Its not just as simple and making a new free account.

I fully support making it at least level 20 before whispers are unlocked. Heck, you could even make a quick quest for it like everything else has. You'd have to whisper an NPC something you can't afford to have anyone else overhear you say.