Square Enix, what is your plan to stop RMT advertisers sending party invites?

[Joe777]

Would like to know because frankly it is harassment and is disruptive to us to just receive a party invite like that out of the blue.

[Clethoria]

Unfortunately, it's not a problem that can just stop. Some way or how they can still worm themselves in. Unless there's a GM or two watching 24/7 at the entrance point to police the city states, they're going to keep popping in. If there's a name spam filter, they'll get by it. Roe names look nonsense as is(ignoring lore), and it's not like Quwrof Wrlccywrlir can be differentiated from Ascryswf Plrglvhds. I think some games have crazy hard spam filters for names, but then that takes away from creativity. Players can decide to sell their own accounts if it came down to making a profit as well. You can throw 100 security walls and verification to make an account but it'll only end up annoying people not involved.

Another mmo I've played bars the player from speaking in chat until like lv 10. But lo and behold, those bots can speedrun and make it past the quest npcs to shout:B U Y G O L D* SCAM SITE dot C OM HAVE GOODDAY. I know it's annoying and boy do I hate having to run past the closest Market Board to see a giant wall of gibberish.

[Rhindas]

I mean they could make a toggle option along the lines of "Not accepting party invites" I guess. But /busy will help in the short term at least. I can already foresee people forgetting to turn the toggle off though.

The thing is, these RMT companies are *really* good at what they do. They're excellent at finding loopholes and workarounds. Patch one hole and they'll find another that people didn't even consider. It's almost amazing.

[Rennies]

I'm going to tickle them until they can't breathe and they die and we'll be rid of them forever and live happily ever after.

[Aerish]

auto mute when sending same messages too many times ?

[Mimilu]

Why not just let us right-click report people who send invites?
Most of these RMT bots use the website they're representing as their name anyway. :-B

[Dustytome]

They could just add it to the inappropriate names list if they have one and block them from creating those characters in the first place. The only reason they're using that method is they can make the character with their website in the name.

[Paladinleeds]

auto mute when sending same messages too many times ?

They put a small differentiator on the end of each message so it isn't the same message. I watch the patterns.

[Aerish]

Create a milice of bot hunters in game, made of players ?

We have Systems like Linkshell and even something to point out a place in any map, dev could make a system from it i guess

[Mimilu]

Create a milice of bot hunters in game, made of players ?

Is milice suppose to be militia?
I don't know if we should be giving players that kind of power or encouraging witch hunts... >x>
Plus, that would make me curious as to where/what our subscriptions are going to if they can't hire more GMs to monitor such things... >x>
Are we in .hack now?