nearly 2 years later...

[Duuude007]

Does SE just not care?

Of course they care. Every active MMO has to deal with it. If there is an economy to exploit with RMT, they will exist.

[Dubah]

Name ONE, just 1 MMORPG that dont have a single gil spammer.
I rarely get any, too many gil buyers in your server maybe.

Well, I can name tons that don't have gil spammers, seeing as gil is only on 2 mmorpg's, so Everquest, World of Warcraft, pick a MMO that doesn't have the name Final Fantasy and they don't have gil spammers.

But seriously tho, Everquest has no plat spammers. There is your serious 1

[Dubah]

SE does care and they work hard on this, and I think the system could be better. It would be nice if they had a click and report, which copied the message and did all that in one step. If you get these, report them, it goes a long way. SE puts out reports as it investagates these issues, but we don't want the banhammer to drop without them looking into it.

My preference would be, right click = > Report. It would send it to SE for review, and mute that player (not blacklist) so you can't get tells from them until X amount of time has passed.

I used to block and report, but it feels like it goes nowhere. I don't even block anymore, i just talk to my FC and LS, sorry for anyone who actually wants to send a legitimate tell, i can't see it because my chat gets blown up all day long. WTB Chat filter.

[Amaranths]

Only way it's going to stop rmt on NA servers is if the US bans companies from selling video game money like they have in other countries on JP servers we have no rmt spam I've been in a JP server for almost 2 years I've never gotten a rmt message we have bots that's about it

[Moonleg]

Doesn't WoW have a built-in chat filter as well?

Not unless they got it with WoD. At least until I stopped playing at the end of Mists the only real way of filtering chat was to download the BadBoy addon, which would mask and report all recognized spam. Worked like a charm.

So, SE, about those addon APIs ...

[Niwashi]

Name ONE, just 1 MMORPG that dont have a single gil spammer.

LOTRO had a lot the first few weeks after its release. Then they added in the right-click report feature and text filtering and so on, and all the spam vanished. It's not that other games don't have people *trying* to spam them. It's that other games don't allow it. SE seems to be the only company that just lets the spam run rampant, without putting in any features to block it.

[Laraul]

Only way it's going to stop rmt on NA servers is if the US bans companies from selling video game money like they have in other countries on JP servers we have no rmt spam I've been in a JP server for almost 2 years I've never gotten a rmt message we have bots that's about it

Donald Trump says he's going to get the RMT under control, and get the Japanese to pay for it!

[CGMidlander]

SE seems to be the only company that just lets the spam run rampant, without putting in any features to block it.

Try any NCSOFT or Nexon game

[Uriel_Kross]

I feel as though the mentor program is the start of removing Gil spammers,
Step 1: create a system where new players can still get the help they need and that is by invite only.

Step 2: block anyone under X amount of hours played and/or under X level from using any form of communication other than the mentor chat.

Since it's by invite only it will stop the spammers from being able to spam tells or say or shouts

[Synestra]

Getting 100% rid of currency sellers in any MMO is next to impossible, havent seen a game where theres literally zero sellers and i pretty much have played all of them.