If I were to SPAM these forums...

[Arkenne]

If you don't really have much use for them, you could edit the /tell's so they are filtered out of your chatbox, and also remove the sound ringing with them.

That way there is SOOOOOO much peace... seriously...

[Issac]

Nitpicking semantics, really? /Really?/

Gordon does have a point, though. SE has done a rather poor job of taking care of the issue. Many people have discussed this and provided valid ideas for solving the RMT dilemma.

We should keep complaining. Make all the new threads. A service we pay for is being impacted by something they're not doing enough to solve. It's almost to a point where it feels like a conspiracy.

But thank god I'm on Masa, I never get any RMT tells. But I've spent time visiting other servers, I feel for ya.

[DragonFlyy]

Another work around is to put yourself on /dnd. Can't receive tells that way.

[Teryaani]

the easyest way to advoid rmt spam is to move to a jp server theres like none ever on masa

It's less frequent. You shouldn't have to move servers to avoid it though.

If you don't really have much use for them, you could edit the /tell's so they are filtered out of your chatbox, and also remove the sound ringing with them.

That way there is SOOOOOO much peace... seriously...

This person is most wise. My experience in game was so much nicer after doing this. You lose /tell functionality, but thanks to RMT almost nobody on Siren uses it anymore anyway.

[Tidbits]

Another work around is to put yourself on /dnd. Can't receive tells that way.

Then you cant get team invites, then you cant trade, end up with FC/LS chat full of "Hey, you're set to busy, cant invite/trade." not an answer.

Us providing 'solutions' or the ever brilliant telling folks how to use basic game settings isn't the way either, it is well and truly out of hand especially on my server, 2 a minute at least, some 2-3 paragraphs long.

We need to keep pointing to SE's epic and unmitigated failure in this department until (oh one can hope...) SE fixes it on their end.

But again, if RMT is not an issue on Asian servers, they may never notice what happens on poor lil Coeurl...

[Teryaani]

Us providing 'solutions' or the ever brilliant telling folks how to use basic game settings isn't the way either, it is well and truly out of hand especially on my server, 2 a minute at least, some 2-3 paragraphs long.

SE needs to fix it, but us giving suggestions so people can try and get through the game without flipping a table and storming out isn't a bad thing.

But again, if RMT is not an issue on Asian servers, they may never notice what happens on poor lil Coeurl...

I don't think they're unaware, I think they're out of their depth on this.

[Arkenne]

theres a program to block rmt spam without disabling personal tells, though im not sure if its allowed to talk about that program here

Tho thats interesting, you better don't.

[Skyhound]

Recognizing and cleaning up spam on a forum is significantly easier than doing so in a game. It's comparing apples to oranges in programming terms, you have to devote actual manpower to investigate every RMT claim in the game. On a forum, most of the protection is practically automated.

[ErzaScarlet77]

Tho thats interesting, you better don't.

yeah, dont wanan risk my account, if somone really wants to, im sure google will help

[Noshpan]

Everyone wishes that RMT spammers and dubious hackers and bots were banned, accounts revoked and never to return again in a prompt fashion. However, the staff appointed with the task of dealing with illicit activities is probably not as big as the, say, the staff Blizzard has appointed to do the same job (and even they take time). When it comes to RMT it's nigh impossible to be preventative. Like a computer virus, you can't prevent new ones from being created, but you can take measures to keep your system (and information) safe.

Any MMO with an anti-RMT team are doing what they can, but since the sources of these RMT companies are based outside of the legal jurisdictions of Japan and the United States, there's nothing they can to shut it down. Top it all off, as long as there are those who continue to use RMT services, cheating scripts, or simply don't care that others use them (because they honestly believe that it doesn't affect them), these annoyances are here to stay. Personally, I'm for a little naming-and-shaming of those whom are proven to use, or condone the use of, RMT and bots.

And then there's one final thing to consider: MMO companies tend to gather all of the information that they can, how bots are currently working, what keywords do RMT spammers use to by-pass filters, making sure as many claims of illicit activity are genuine and not made out of harmful spite. And then, once they have enough information, they work on a plan (that they've most likely been developing during this whole time) to make RMT and botting activities more difficult.

Now some of you are probably thinking "Why don't they [Square Enix] just make it so you can guy gil directly from them?" Well it doesn't always work. Blizzard implemented a similar feature for Diablo 3 and then there's the token system in WoW. Neither have done nothing to stem the tide of botting and RMT.

In conclusion, everyone here can agree that the RMT spam is irritating. Botting is annoying. Some of us have given up on reporting and our statuses are set to /busy just so we can keep our sanity while playing.