RMT Enforcement - Something Interesting is happeneing

[Khalithar]

It's been a great change and I can actually use the Tell system now. There's a reason why players have been asking for this instant report feature for so long, it's damn effective. Now we just need that option extended to anyone's name we right click so we can start reporting the party invite bots that have suddenly popped up.

[Velisra]

While I've been impressed with the effectiveness of the RMT report function in game, now we're seeing random party invites from obvious gil sellers. It's obvious what they want--to advertise their services--since the character names are random sorts of names that always contain things referencing gil selling.

I've been hesitant to use the RMT report function when I get these party invites, since the person hasn't actually tried to sell me gil and I don't want my report to seem like a "false" report when SE looks at it. I've tried accepting the invite to see if they would say something so that I could then report, but as soon as I accept the invite, they drop party.

Thoughts?

[SigSauer]

While I've been impressed with the effectiveness of the RMT report function in game, now we're seeing random party invites from obvious gil sellers. It's obvious what they want--to advertise their services--since the character names are random sorts of names that always contain things referencing gil selling.

I've been hesitant to use the RMT report function when I get these party invites, since the person hasn't actually tried to sell me gil and I don't want my report to seem like a "false" report when SE looks at it. I've tried accepting the invite to see if they would say something so that I could then report, but as soon as I accept the invite, they drop party.

Thoughts?

Can't report them using that function even if you wanted to. The function only works when there is a message on chat.

[Velisra]

Can't report them using that function even if you wanted to. The function only works when there is a message on chat.

Ah. I hadn't actually tried it so I didn't know that it wouldn't work anyway. That's that then.

So I guess I'll just ignore it for the time being. I'm not sure there would be a way for SE to combat this new gil seller advertising technique!

[Niwashi]

I'm not sure there would be a way for SE to combat this new gil seller advertising technique!

Well, all it would take is to block character names from using certain RMT related strings.

In chat, they can get around rules like that by forming their URL name with other symbols that just resemble the letters needed, or with placeholders and instructions on what to replace. But that doesn't really work with only a first and last name that are already limited to letters and a few special characters (apostrophe at least, though I think that may actually be the only one).

If SE prevented using certain RMT site names in character names as well as terms like "sellgils" or "sellsgil" and variations, I don't think these invite ads would work. At least not unless the bots started actually sending advertising messages to whoever accepted, but at that point, they'd be subject to the reporting feature that already drove them out of /tell spam in the first place.

[Derio]

Yea now they are using party invites so they dont get banned. And sending party invites isnt doing anthing wrong, but you know they are a gill seller just by their name. But they dont say anything so its hard to really report them.

[Oldschoolegamer38]

You can call me silly for this but why hasn't SE tracks the MB's? we all know the RMT's and botters control the shard markets, that would be the first thing they can take action to stopping them outright.It might take time but in the end, they will net a lot more people.

[Moonlite]

You can call me silly for this but why hasn't SE tracks the MB's? we all know the RMT's and botters control the shard markets, that would be the first thing they can take action to stopping them outright.It might take time but in the end, they will net a lot more people.

When they talked about this in 11. It was felt more beneficial to allow a certain flow of items and try to catch the big bank rmt. The truth is no one has proof which system is better. But as a player you see instant benefit when they ban a bot. But maybe catching the bank and removing billions of gil is better. It also looks good when they say we eliminated 100 billion gil. Police do this all the time when they report busts to the media.

The pessimist in me thinks allowing those shards into the world is needed. Right now Balmung has 13 stacks just over 14 thousand wind shards total. They start at 79 gil and go to 150. If we got a crafting patch with a few recipes that needed 10+ shards the price could get crazy. If players were paying 1000gil per shard SE would probably have to reevaluate how they distribute the crafting catalysts.


And Holy Necro Batman

While the lock servers every time they delete a bunch they might have to go to plan B. Which in some cases is try to steal accounts. And while you may think it is ok I have an authenticator. They seem to get around this other ways. When money is involved people seem to find ways /sad face.

[Maero]

RMT still comes in bits but truly love the option they had added to report. I think the way it was before players did not want to be bothered, but now that it is so easy to report perhaps the playerbase have started to report more which is great.

[Lexia]

Well RMT pretty much dead on Balmung and Giglamesh, since the servers are locked as once they die out or get banned there no coming back for them to those servers. Not sure if that will cause a increase on smaller servers though.