Three years of RMT

[Jas710]

Three years. THREE YEARS of daily gilseller /tell spam. Those "actions taken against rmt" notices seem meaningless, as we have been still resorting to setting ourselves on "busy", and/or filling up/deleting/making room on our blacklists.

There is still no easier option for us to report these sellers. Where is the "right-click to report" option, etc?

And why has this problem been so difficult for the company to resolve in the first place? Do IP traces. Issue legal warnings. Whatever it takes. Come on!

[ADVSS]

all it takes is a transfer fee and you could be rmt tells free, sad that Sarg still has these issues, havent gotten a single tell in like the 9 months ive been here since leaving Sargatanas. none. at all.

[Schneehase]

a easier option to report these sellers would be rly nice, like u said ^^
just wondering how often u get on ya server a tell by a day/week o.o b'cause sounds a lot
here on shiva I get a tell like 1-2x/monthly

[ADVSS]

well made a char on midgardsormr a few hours ago and it was like one a minute, sargatanas was probably close to about 1 every 2 min, sometimes 2-3 at the same time, lemme tell you i feel for you guys, i really do. It just isnt even right at this point why there isnt a right click option on tells, to mark as spam.

[Schneehase]

holy...........

[MarsAttacks]

On Midgardsormr. Sometimes up to 3 RMT /tells in a minute.
At least one every 2-3 minutes.

It sounds like some servers hardly get any RMT /tells at all? Is there more development staff on the servers or something?

They should just have an anti-RMT quest in the beginning of the game and also disable /tells until level 5. Something that will never get seen, guess I have given up hope on this game.

[Lunaxia]

all it takes is a transfer fee and you could be rmt tells free, sad that Sarg still has these issues, havent gotten a single tell in like the 9 months ive been here since leaving Sargatanas. none. at all.

Having everyone transfer their characters to a server that is so horrendously overpopulated it is impossible for anyone to make a character there, let alone RMT bots, is hardly a solution to the problem...

[Atoli]

It sounds like some servers hardly get any RMT /tells at all? Is there more development staff on the servers or something?

No, it's just that servers with high population are usually closed off for character creation, so Gilsellers can't make characters to annoy you with
On Ragnarok, I haven't gotten an RMT tell in at least a year, and even before that it was like once a month. We do get the one that is /saying his ad in the starting city though.

But I know Ragnarok is the highest population server on the EU datacenter .-.
Been trying to create an alt for weeks now and it was just pretty much constantly closed off, with short openings in EU mornings.
Servers like Balmung don't even have that anymore, without a paid transfer it's impossible to get into so they are completely RMT-free.

Sadly, that means RMT and Botting is even MORE prevalent on low-population servers because that's where they all flock to instead.

[Gemma]

Having everyone transfer their characters to a server that is so horrendously overpopulated it is impossible for anyone to make a character there, let alone RMT bots, is hardly a solution to the problem...

Oh they still have plenty of bots trust me, I have alts on that server & see them all the time (hell even if you do a blanket search of Ul'dah you'll see a bunch of gibberish names in a fake FC queing up for WP, which is what they like to do.), they just don't advertise through tells cause its so hard for them to get back on there. They just silently go about making their gil & porting all over the place. No server is safe from RMT not even Balmung, they just don't have to deal with /tells. Doesn't seem like a solution to me, seems more like monkey hear no evil monkey see no evil.

I agree OP the RMT situation is out of hand, even XI wasn't this bad. Wish they would actually do something with the Task Force they say is working on it...

[Culfinrandir]

This weekend has been horrendous on Leviathan... I was getting them at the rate of one every ten seconds for a while. It's quieter during US gaming hours but during EU hours it can get oppressive.

They often use slight corruptions of the same set of names that are actual Leviathan players too. Those RMT based on player names have existed since I started playing in 2.2 - some are actually the same names that I blacklisted back then & removed 2 years later.