Why all the spam lately?

[Xau]

Did something change? At the beginning of the expansion the amount of spam went down to almost zero and it was amazing. I was able to leave myself off busy and people could whisper me whenever they wanted. But the past month or so its just gotten really really bad again :/ guess its back to being perma-busy for me to avoid all the whispers and friend requests from people trying to sell me gill

the main reason the spam bots are back is mostly because people is geting bored of the game, and because of that, theres less people online now, so the rmt bots can create now their characters whit more ease

[Saseal]

Same - I noticed it gone in HW.... then a slow trickle.... then average, but ignorable... and then recently - within the last few weeks - it's become deplorable.

Also, some of the 'say' RMT bots just jump every now and then to make them 'active'.

SE really NEEDs to add a function to tick in the character or system options - 'Only receive Tells from Friends'.
Dunno about anyone else, but the friends outside of FC I've made were not met by Tells... but via conversations in Say/public chat and PF parties. I wouldn't be missing anything by not being able to receive tells from strangers. Only once in a blue moon do I receive a tell thanking me for a Raise, or something (and when I receive one, I usually thank in say/public chat, or just bow to them x.x)

[Kuroyasha]

Why I like being on Gilga. Been here for almost 6 months now....138/200 on the blacklist without going Busy status.

[Recaldy]

RMT? What's that? Yet to get a tell in months on Balmung. :3

[NovaLevossida]

I wish they'd add a separate Tell category called Friend Tells (Tells from friends) so I could leave that on and filter off regular Tells.

[Syrehn]

Why I like being on Gilga. Been here for almost 6 months now....138/200 on the blacklist without going Busy status.

Consider yourself lucky then. I'm also on Gilgamesh and I get hammered constantly. Typically when I log in I get 2-3 within 5 minutes of logging in and then it's just a constant flow. My black list is maxed out at 200/200 and has been that way for a few weeks.

I've noticed something interesting though, the amount of spam RMT tells that I get drastically reduces (almost non-existent) when I'm idling on a low level class. For example I leveled DRK from 30-51 with only the odd RMT spam and can idle on that class without getting bombarded. The minute that I switch to my 60 WHM I get consistent RMT spam.

It makes me wonder if RMT are targeting max level characters more heavily. :/

[FridgePanic]

I get an average of 1 tell a day on Gilgamesh, so my blacklist shouldn't be full for another 5 months.

[Nadirah]

Seriously, all they need to do is bring back the 30 minute auto logout.

Because getting into a vendor transaction or bending over into a crafting synth to avoid being logged out was hard.

[Welsper59]

I wish they'd add a separate Tell category called Friend Tells (Tells from friends) so I could leave that on and filter off regular Tells.

That is one, of many, filter suggestions that myself and others have been requesting since 2.0. Most requested chat filters are not complex or intricate in any way to create. Yoshi-P and the devs are complacent about their ban "effort" of RMT, so I doubt much will be done in the foreseeable future. If no ones quitting solely because of it after all this time, taking a hit to QoL is the least of their worries to prioritize.

[NorthernLadMSP]

I'm so thankful that Balmung never has spam. I haven't gotten a single spam tell, shout or friend request in 5 months, and before that it was maybe once a month.