Reporting RMT Suggestion

[Hasrat]

Is it really that they just log out? Here I was assuming they found some exploit or were deleting/recreating the character over and over. If they're just logging out, the blacklist definitely needs changed to let us add offline players to it. That's just terrible design.
I figure they're operating on "if they can't bl it, they'll see more messages." Obviously doesn't work for most that don't care anyway, but it's all about getting enough attention from those few someones that are willing.

It is indeed far more irritating to not be able to stop it so quickly/easily (which is again probably the goal for them). I've just had to adapt to leaving the bl prompt window open for 5-10 minutes before confirming. If they spam again, the window is already up and the bl usually goes through if you hit it near immediately. Or if you just wait a while to try, sometimes the character is back and can be added to the blist.

[needsram9]

I think one takeaway here is the Gil spammers adapt more quickly than does the game. And at present, the game is kind of putting the burden of spam filtering on players (by Reporting RMT and Blacklisting, and then some of the additional tricks mentioned above). Does this seem correct?

[Valenth]

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It's probably a scale tipping all the time. I mean, if the devs are ahead of the spammers, then we don't notice, right? This is usually the case with public work such as this. To make a comparison, the same goes for police work irl. If they do their job well you won't notice. It's a very ungrateful job because people often don't realise all the nastiness that is being prevented. It's a cat and mouse game with the true 'problem' laying in the fact there is obviously a market for gil-sellers (otherwise they wouldn't spam to begin with). I don't think any company has found a great answer though. Some try to combat RMT by having in-game currency sales, but I feel like this is kinda validating the spammer's existence which I'd rather not.