Best Advice to Square ever

[Puremallace]

If my name is lAHASjyhwhejkwenmnsdzcs kjhawjkdhajkhdjkashdkjah and I type the word Gold in Shout and /Say then I probably do not have the best intentions.

Seriously other MMO devs have atleast figured this out 8+ years ago how to control the Shout spam.

Come on guys! You can design Ultimate Alexander but banning this is not possible?

[Gothicshark]

Sadly it's kind of hard, have you seen Welsh Names? Sea Wolf Roegadyn names are basically in Welsh. At the same time, I get less Gold seller spam than WOW. The worst game for it is B&S. So yah... I would love to see them gone, but kind of hard. If they make a naming rule that bans an account for vowel use and saying gold, it's going to hit a lot of RP players.

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oh and the gold sellers would just adapt.

[Limecat]

Since SE has no intention of dedicated policing of the chat for things like that, what they could do is give us a client-side filter. Just a regex list in a text file, and anything matching it gets dropped before being printed into the chat box.

[Gothicshark]

Oh and also, in WOW, they use addons to really get the spam out, if you play on a high pop server and make a new alt, as soon as the opening cinematic is done you are hit with a bunch of guild invites which are gold seller ads. Walkthrough the capital city with an RP addon, mouse over a guy, goldseller spam on his RP tooltip. Walk outside the city, gold seller spam Duel invites, basically, the only relief to goldseller spam in WOW is to shut down chat and use discord, or move to an empty server. Fortunately, there are a lot of dead servers in WOW.

[Puremallace]

WoW's problems are very different. If you ever have a conversation with the gold sellers they will tell you they know the exact timing of the GM rotations. My advice to Square would be to look at Aion and how hard they clamped down it gold sellers after that MMO launched wayyyyy back when.

They restricted what trial accounts could do. Lets be serious here it is not some level 80 and rarely a hacked account these days spamming this stuff. it is someone on a trial very low level.

I think they could crack down further on the low level accounts.

[Edax]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a real place in Wales. Those poor poor people......
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

WoW's problems are very different. If you ever have a conversation with the gold sellers they will tell you they know the exact timing of the GM rotations. My advice to Square would be to look at Aion and how hard they clamped down it gold sellers after that MMO launched wayyyyy back when.

They restricted what trial accounts could do. Lets be serious here it is not some level 80 and rarely a hacked account these days spamming this stuff. it is someone on a trial very low level.

I think they could crack down further on the low level accounts.

Have you actually looked at trial restrictions?

[Jkap_Goat]

they need to fix the shout chat in FFXI, it filled with BOTS on the Asura server!

Please SE, do something! It's so bad, I had to turn off my shout because it was filled with RMT bots

[Kleeya]

Word filters can easily be bypassed by adding special characters to the original word while still being readable. What will you do when the gold sellers shouting scripts will generate on the fly thousands of variations like g_old, g'ol'd, go.l.d, g*o*l*d, etc ? All the time developing the filter would have been for nothing. It has been a long time that you can already see special characters in their messages btw.

As for the gibberish names, i prefer for them to use that, than to switch to more common ones that legit players would want to use.

And SE is already fighting against that, with thousands of accounts banned each week : https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...eeb5c58d2c4400. The fact that you can see some shouts in town doesn't mean they do nothing about it.

[KageTokage]

WoW's problems are very different. If you ever have a conversation with the gold sellers they will tell you they know the exact timing of the GM rotations. My advice to Square would be to look at Aion and how hard they clamped down it gold sellers after that MMO launched wayyyyy back when.

They restricted what trial accounts could do. Lets be serious here it is not some level 80 and rarely a hacked account these days spamming this stuff. it is someone on a trial very low level.

I think they could crack down further on the low level accounts.

The problem is the RMT spammers don't use trial accounts and are actually paying for the starter edition (Albeit via credit chargeback fraud).

I think they'd have to impose mandatory chat/trade restrictions on characters below a certain level and/or created recently to have much of an effect on them.