We need an easier way to report rmt on pf

[Eimdal]

A lot of pf are rmt pf and there isn't a button to report the pf like the button in the chat, you need to write a file report. We need an easier way to report this players.

[Starflake]

Damn, those people who advertise selling clears are still doing it after all this time and it's the same people? It's almost as if reporting them doesn't actually do anything and you are wasting your time!

[Hyperia]

As I understand, its mostly a NA / EU issue and not so much for JP so they don't put much effort into it. The sellers know this, so they stay far away from the JP servers so they don't invoke the ire of the Devs.

Sorry folks but the best thing we can do is ignore it and walk past the person selling stuff... that's all we can really do.

[KageTokage]

As I understand, its mostly a NA / EU issue and not so much for JP so they don't put much effort into it. The sellers know this, so they stay far away from the JP servers so they don't invoke the ire of the Devs.

Sorry folks but the best thing we can do is ignore it and walk past the person selling stuff... that's all we can really do.

Turns out it's also a problem on the JP datacenters. It's even the exact same groups of people trying to push sales as on the NA/EU servers.

That said, I doubt they'll ever actually do anything about it. The devs honestly seem just as out of touch with the JP playerbase as they are with us when it comes to enforcing illicit activity.

[Mavrias]

no rmt prices listed in the game so gms won't do anything about it.

[Jojoya]

That said, I doubt they'll ever actually do anything about it. The devs honestly seem just as out of touch with the JP playerbase as they are with us when it comes to enforcing illicit activity.

As long as there are buyers, there will be sellers. It's only if people stop buying that sellers will start disappearing.

Banning an account does little even if you can prove RMT was involved. It's easy to get a new account and level/gear a new character for new sales. Use of VPNs and false personal information on accounts makes it difficult to truly enforce a ban.

I don't think it's a matter of the developers being out of touch. They agree it's a problem or RMT wouldn't even be mentioned in the ToS. But it's very hard to enforce something like this in an effective manner. Something like enacting a blanket ban of any advertising of paid carries (whether gil, RMT or whatever) in game would help but it's not going to stop stop buyers and sellers from contacting each other through reddit, Discord and other means outside of game.

If the player base has any ideas that would be effective in stopping RMT, I'm sure SE would be interested in hearing them. Personally I would love to see the buyers getting punished but proving RMT took place is difficult to do unless both parties get careless talking about it in game chat channels or on streaming services like Twitch.

[Raltar]

It would be hard to actually get evidence that they are doing RMT. None of the listings say anything about real money, so for all we know they are doing it for gil(they aren't but there's no proof). Ultimately, we wouldn't have the RMTers if people weren't buying. Banning the RMTers doesn't do anything because they have backup accounts. If we could ban those buying, though...that would have more of an impact, imo.

[KageTokage]

WoW recently adopted a policy of "No content selling ads on PF at all". I don't think XIV would really lose much from doing the same.

It wouldn't get rid of the problem entirely but it would at least remove the spam from PF as I've seen as many as 12 different players advertising at the same time before.

[hydralus]

On the subject of ads on the partyfinder, I wish those brothels would stop advertising the same place 3/4/5 times in a row. It's just ridiculous.

[Vahlnir]

On the subject of ads on the partyfinder, I wish those brothels would stop advertising the same place 3/4/5 times in a row. It's just ridiculous.

Yeah, it's bad enough seeing them advertise at all, let alone multiple times.