Gil seller spam is really bad now

[Xanikk999]

I have to turn on /busy as soon as I log on or else I get an annoying message once every 30 seconds - 1 minute. This prevents me from seeing tells from actual players and also I have to drop /busy whenever I need an invite from someone.

Is Square Enix going to do more to combat gil sellers? I play WoW as well and I can't remember the last time I have received a whisper from someone trying to get me to buy gold. They obviously did something to kill gold sellers in that game because it's not a problem anymore, at least not on the server I play on.

[AskaRay]

Move to Lich, small server still with little to no spam.

[CompSci88]

Move to Lich, small server still with little to no spam.

and nothing to do as well

[Imoen]

It has BEEN bad. I don't remember a point in the history of the game (since 2.0) where it hasn't been bad.

In WoW most of the gold sellers sent me mails instead of tells. You can't send mails in this game unless you are friends.

Honestly, outside of no gil sellers at all, I'd rather have the crap coming through my mail, at least I can delete it at my own convenience then lol.

[SnugglesD]

Moving to a small server is actually the worst possible advice for dealing with RMT spam. Going to a continually locked server is the best solution. If they can't create characters, they can't spam. I see a couple messages a week on Gilgamesh.

The reason you don't see it on wow is because they have "official" gold buying now. Something I'd really rather not see in FFXIV.

[AskaRay]

Moving to a small server is actually the worst possible advice for dealing with RMT spam. Going to a continually locked server is the best solution. If they can't create characters, they can't spam. I see a couple messages a week on Gilgamesh.

The reason you don't see it on wow is because they have "official" gold buying now. Something I'd really rather not see in FFXIV.

I guess, but I can trust you last time I got maybe...more than two messages a month was... I don't know before HW?
And I'm usually first to get since my name starts with an "A".

[Gamer3427]

Moving to a small server is actually the worst possible advice for dealing with RMT spam. Going to a continually locked server is the best solution. If they can't create characters, they can't spam. I see a couple messages a week on Gilgamesh.

I guess, but I can trust you last time I got maybe...more than two messages a month was... I don't know before HW?
And I'm usually first to get since my name starts with an "A".

It seems the only solution is to go to a small, unpopulated server, that is also locked because it's too populated. That, or a JP server. I hear that the gil spam is non-existent there. Truthfully, it seems like all the complaints about it are the NA servers, which probably says a lot.....

[Eul]

That, or a JP server. I hear that the gil spam is non-existent there.

I can confirm my server never got any Gil Seller here. Also JP people almost can't read english word so it's useless for those outsider to sell there (might be banned quickly or no one interested?)

[LurkerREM]

So exactly does that say about NA Servers? Could it be that North Americas just feel that being annoyed continuously is something paying customers shouldn't automatically accept? Do you ever strive to improve anything and get rid of the gilsellers? It is not hard to do it with programming, something I know something about. The developers just don't consider it a big enough problem if no large-scale complaints.

[Negafox]

I see a couple messages a week on Gilgamesh.

I see them numerous times per hour on Gilgamesh. Heck, I see botters running around Uldah all the time.