Unceasing, relentless daily harassment [RMT]

[Igziabeher]

if paid 15 bucks a month to join a gym, but there were people there who catcalled you, shoved advertisements in your face, and generally made your experience unpleasant, wouldn't you expect management to do something about the people harassing you in THEIR establishment? mean they're the ones who let them in...


and no, kingatlas, gil isn't really required for any gear in this game, its all pretty much handed to you or earned via untradeable raid tokens. sure some people dont have much time to play, but if you don't have much time to practice guitar, you aren't going to be on Jimi Hendrix's level.

[Caitlinzulu]

if paid 15 bucks a month to join a gym, but there were people there who catcalled you, shoved advertisements in your face, and generally made your experience unpleasant, wouldn't you expect management to do something about the people harassing you in THEIR establishment? mean they're the ones who let them in...

The comparison is somewhat flawed.
Shure the management could show the advertisers the door and they would be right in doing so; But to make an accurate comparison you'd have to imagine the advertiser to have an infinite number of "brothers" who would come in as soon as the old one is shown the door to continue the advertisement.

And replacing the team that handles the bans wont help. RMT have to advertise to be able to catch them so you will always get at least one tell/shout from them anyway before they can even be targeted for a ban.

What would make it easier to deal with is a simple right click report/temp blacklist option. That way rmt tell bots could be targeted a lot quicker.
Second it could help to have user configurable tell filters, filtering server side isnt quick enough unless SE can make alterations to the filter without general updates.
What would certainly help is an option to limit tells to only people on your friend list.

[Igziabeher]

valid enough, caitlin, but you cant really flood a membership-only organization with unwanted people, there's some flaw in the system that is allowing them to even enter in the first place, and thats my point. I think that is also OP's point, it isn't a matter of what *WE* can do to deal with it, its not our problem. We pay to be here. If the gym analogy doesn't work out, how about a grocery store where there is a drug dealer on every aisle trying to sell you something? You'd probably expect management to hire some effective security, or you'd just shop elsewhere.

[MaeIsMean]

What would make it easier to deal with is a simple right click report/temp blacklist option. That way rmt tell bots could be targeted a lot quicker.
Second it could help to have user configurable tell filters, filtering server side isnt quick enough unless SE can make alterations to the filter without general updates.
What would certainly help is an option to limit tells to only people on your friend list.

Yes, to all of this. But also include tells from LS and FC, so I don't have to friendslist all of them too. (and while you're at it, allow a unique nameplate color for FC, pretty please!)

[Veilqa]

Sadly this seems to be the staple of mmos today. Take for example Blade and Soul. Now known as Bot and Spam. BnS was hyped to extremes and rightfully so with a fresh take on combat and arena PVP. The reality of course is that the game became in less than a month a bot circus. Bots in the forums, bots in arena, bots in tag matches, bots gathering, bots crafting, bots doing dungeons, bots in raids, etc.

I'm not saying we should accept bots for what they are and just shup up and play. I'm saying that it is a difficult issue for developers. Some take it more seriously than others and I believe SE does take the problem seriously unlike NCSoft with BnS.

In BnS a majority of the bots have premium accounts (pay monthly) so this does create conflict when the player base cries for results and NCSoft remains silent. Bots gone = money gone.

And for ffs, I make like a million gil in a week or two. Why the hell would you buy gil from these parasites?