Square's new RMT solution. Will it work?

[Nyu_Maimhov]

As stated in the patch notes: "[2.0] In an effort to curb RMT activities, the number of friend requests players can send per day (Earth time) will be limited to 5.
* The friend request counter will be reset daily at midnight (Earth time)."While I'm glad Square is doing something to slow down RMT spam, this can not be the best way to go about this. Most RMTs on Jenova seem to use /tell, /shout, and /say to send out their advertisements. And now that we are limited to only 5 friend requests a day, this seems like more of nuisance than a welcomed solution. So here are my questions: Will this have a positive impact on the players or a negative one? And what is everyone else's thoughts?

[Risvertasashi]

Well, I do think it will reduce the number of spammed friend requests. I don't think it will affect legitimate players, unless you like join a static and want to friend 7 people at once. But in scenarios like that, just have a couple of them send you requests instead.

As for RMT, it's a bit of a bandaid over a bullet hole. Better than nothing but there's still an awful lot of blood coming out of that wound.

[Blood-Aki]

No, FR are hardly a problem, from what i'm seeing, it's the characers being made, able to send tells nonestop untill they delete or get banned (which takes weeks) that is the problem. i don't think this will even make a dent, much like the current method. you'll annoy some of them, sure. but we'll still have the same problem.

The best solution i think is an anon system, we should be allowed or mask our search if we wanted. This would stop a lot of tells.

Or you could make being a certain level able to send tells, Unless anyone can explain a good reason why we need to allow a level 1 sending tells to everyone on the server, all day.

MMOs are a social game, and limiting tells of new characters limits the ability of genuinely new players to interact. Some game companies judge it to be a worthwhile measure anyways, some don't.

Of course, it would be nice if SE had some way to detect that a character was spamming a bunch of people... but they haven't even been able to give us a right click > report RMT button yet, so...

I had 2 people i suggested to the game quit shortly after because they were utterly annoyed at the constant tell spams they were getting while trying to enjoy the game, they will target you the moment you even create your character, after 1st CSs depending on the server you're on, tell bombs. i hardly think anyone can peacefully socalize of any sort dealing with tell spams, when they are new to the game.

But my point was i hardly doubt anyone would make a new character, sit at level one for a prolonged period of time, and just randomly send tells to everyone. hell level 2 takes maybe 5 minutes at the most it's a clear sign who the spammers are.

[Risvertasashi]

Or you could make being a certain level able to send tells, Unless anyone can explain a good reason why we need to allow a level 1 sending tells to everyone on the server, all day.

MMOs are a social game, and limiting tells of new characters limits the ability of genuinely new players to interact. Some game companies judge it to be a worthwhile measure anyways, some don't.

Of course, it would be nice if SE had some way to detect that a character was spamming a bunch of people... but they haven't even been able to give us a right click > report RMT button yet, so...

[Anarnee]

I think they need to rework the tell system, let us have different settings. Have a friends only tell option, or let us set to /busy or some other /function that lets only receive tells from friends.

I -am- glad that I won't get the friend requests anymore. I had like 13 just sitting there before HW. It was so bad...

[Dante_V]

As someone on Jenova who has been there from day one I can tell you I'm constantly hit with rmt friend requests. I've had up to 10 in an hour in some cases. Just because person x isn't experiencing it, doesn't mean it isn't happening. That's a complete fallacy. Obviously the reports are high enough that they decided to do something about rmt friend requests.

Beyond that it's hardly an inconvenience. 5 FR per day isn't that hard of a thing to get around. I don't see how it will prohibit anyone from doing anything besides rmt doing spam.

[Dante_V]

I do agree about a tell filter. I'd like a dynamic user based filter that let's me block tells containing the words I specify. I get tells from non friends quite often.

[LaylaTsarra]

It's a step forward. The friend request spams are by far the most annoying. I think the large increase in them prior to the patch just shows the losers knew this option was coming to an end.

[Waeksyn]

RMT friend requests are a major pain because they require you to take action (you can't passively ignore them). Hopefully this change will help.

Frankly though, RMT /tells are far more annoying IMO. I wish SE would add a feature to filter /tells. I'd like to see some filtering choices like:

• Turn tells off except for:
  • Allow tells from Friends
  • Allow tells from FC members
  • Allow tells from LS "X"
  • Allow tells from character level "X" or above

[Defias]

They need to pull a WoW and have it where new characters cannot use tell, shout, and yell until they are lvl 10, 15, or 20.
That would end it.