Mailing System

[Shioban]

I am afraid that I must disagree with most posters here. This is a bad idea.

1. As far as RMTs are concerned this will not even be a speed bump for them. As we all know they run multiple characters under the control of 1 person. Gil and items can be transferred without the us of the mail system. All it would do is limit the amount of Gil that can be sent to a buyer.

2. During Ver 1.0 I created 2 characters. My main is my adventurer. My secondary is my crafter/gather. With the new system that is out the door and my second character is next to useless now.

Consider this post as a request to SE to reconsider their position.

I wasn't stating an opinion.
I was stating fact, I can quote Yoshi-P for you here actually;


http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...92#post1031492

[Quesse]

I am afraid that I must disagree with most posters here. This is a bad idea.

1. As far as RMTs are concerned this will not even be a speed bump for them. As we all know they run multiple characters under the control of 1 person. Gil and items can be transferred without the us of the mail system. All it would do is limit the amount of Gil that can be sent to a buyer.

2. During Ver 1.0 I created 2 characters. My main is my adventurer. My secondary is my crafter/gather. With the new system that is out the door and my second character is next to useless now.

Consider this post as a request to SE to reconsider their position.

I completely agree. This will do effectively nothing to solve the RMT issue but it hamstrings legitimate players.

That said its at least one step forward from 1.0 which had no delivery system at all.

[Peachy]

The hindrance to RMT is due to the fact you can only send mail to people on your friend list, not because it prevents them from sending things to themselves (they obviously have no issue overcoming this). I assume this makes it much easier to track who interacts with RMT.

I dont see why this is such a hindrance to normal players either though.. ask your FC if you can use the bank to transfer items, or ask a friend.

[Undrentide]

Why cant SE close sites like http://www.u7buy.com/ffxiv/ http://www.ffxivgilstudio.com/ffxivgil.html etc down. (A 2 second search on the internet found those). Surely it cant be that hard for Se to take action against them?

[Shneibel]

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you cant close those site, the moment you get em close they ll pop up again under another name, close the RMT site is not the effective way to prevent RMT or stop it

[Meklore]

Why cant SE close sites like http://www.u7buy.com/ffxiv/ http://www.ffxivgilstudio.com/ffxivgil.html etc down. (A 2 second search on the internet found those). Surely it cant be that hard for Se to take action against them?

It's not that simple. It's like U.S. citizens hiding money in the Cayman Islands, if there is no agreement between the two countries you can't enforce a court action on them. The same holds true for the owners of the websites. I only wish it were that easy, FF XI wouldn't have been overrun by RMT

[Jasmine_Aurelia]

I honestly don't know what I'm going to do with my other 7 characters from Legacy if I can't make mules.

[Kenka]

I doubt they will ever create a shared storage of any sort. It would be pointless to prevent mails to be sent to yourself but instead allow you to store everything in a convenient box for easier pickup...

I doubt this will be a hindrance for me since I don't plan on having mules (we'll see later down the road if I can live without them) but I can understand why you are upset. We'll see if this proves to be effective against RMTs...

[Sasagawa]

just find a friend transfer the money you want to him then get him to transfer it to you other character .

[Voqar]

just find a friend transfer the money you want to him then get him to transfer it to you other character .

Exactly.

For one don't consider sending stuff to alts powerleveling by any means. Having this friend blast you thru content is powerleveling. The game does a nice job of dealing with real powerleveling by downleveling overlevel players when they'd be too high and trivialize content.

For two, this mechanism doesn't prevent anything, it just makes it a pain in the butt.

It's lazy development that only causes inconvenience not found in any reasonable or modern MMORPG.

I plan to just make one character that does everything but the principle still stands. It's a BS reason to inflict unnecessary restriction and inconvenience on players.