GIL Sellers Are on The Rise

[Zezil]

i ever hear someone got hack for shout sell gil. what should can do in this case?
i hear from friend in ls. gilseller shout sell gil and someone shout that character is his friend who got hacked. long time ago i ever believe SE can protect us from this case. but after play ffxi very long time until ffxiv at now.that's hopeless trust. so in this case happen with someone i known or myself . what can i do?

btw yesterday i logout for 3hr and when back to first login i got this character still in SV.. omg but my stand place still same so np..

[MidnightS]

Just got done spending about an hour of late night crafting. Received upwards to about 15 RMT tells. That's not even counting the guy sitting in the Ul'dah Adventurer's Guild spamming the ad over and over in /say.

WTB an /ignore function SE.

[Soraphet]

Not going to lie, this is dumb beyond belief. You are literally saying players are too stupid to right click on someones name and add them to an ignore list without accidently ignoring their friends/innocent strangers.

Ps3 players can't right click.

Edit: To elaborate, the current process for Ps3 players is to write down the name or sludge through the select button to switch menus to get the spammer's name (since his name is rarely there due to it taking up the entire box which is roughly 5-7 lines and the name being hidden) and then use the obnoxious and laggy XMB keyboard to blacklist. There is no easy method for blacklisting and I would very much like one. Of course, I would like them to combat the spamming at its heart, but we can't all get what we want.

Played about 4-5 hours just now, got 1-3 tells about gil, and saw everyone crying about a gil seller in both Ul'dah and Limsa. Was in both cities for about half an hour to an hour, maybe more. While it's a good thing I only have to blacklist one RWT spammer, it's not a good thing when they're there for hours at a time. Many of the new players were simply enraged at him and thought he or she was a real person instead of an autotyper.

[Noshpan]

While I've yet to encounter this issue, I know that it's only a matter of time before I do. At the very least I would like to see a more efficient means of reporting these RMT spammers, with the spammers being automatically muted* for me when I report them. Aion has had kina sellers in the game since the game's open beta and they still lack an effective means of reporting these RMTs after all these years!

*As in, I won't continue to see their spamming text after I have reported them.

[ZelMousse]

WTB an /ignore function SE.

there is one, /blist add "Character Name"

[Shiyo]

Greetings,

We apologize for those of you who have experienced real money traders spamming gil selling advertisements. We are in the midst of addressing this and appreciate your patience during this time.

As there have also been requests for an "Add to blacklist" option when selecting someone's name from the chat log, we would like to look into addressing this as well; however, this opens up the possibility of accidentally blacklisting people by misclicking etc., so we'd like to take the time to look into this carefully.

In the mean time, we would appreciate it greatly if you could report these violators through the in-game Support Desk feature where they will be handled as soon as possible, as Senior Game Master Jhanaka has mentioned below:

I am greatly offended by this insult to my intelligence. I am flabbergasted that the higher ups at Square Enix would think of their playerbase in this way, and even more confused that they would ask you to relay this information in such an offensive manner.

[mschi772]

I am greatly offended by this insult to my intelligence. I am flabbergasted that the higher ups at Square Enix would think of their playerbase in this way, and even more confused that they would ask you to relay this information in such an offensive manner.

This is a company that won't let us send or receive tells while bound by duty because ... people might be mean to each other???? FF14 is an utter nanny state, and SE is like that kid in daycare that will only share their toys if you play with them the "right way" otherwise they'll take it away and show you how to play with it.

[Lefein]

How about an option to right click on their name on the message itself and 'Report as RMT' option? That way, your staff will already have a unique identifier for the message as well as their username. This will also discourage "reverse-abuse" as the moderator will see whether the message was indeed an offer for RMT or not.

Reporting these people should be made as simple as possible, because they do interrupt normal gameplay for us. At the same time, being able to pin the message immediately will mean that there is less opportunity for players to abuse legitimate players of the game.

[Kyri]

I don't quite understand why SE is insulting out intelligence by not making a right click blacklist where you might accidentally blist someone you didn't mean to because I feel its rather dumb not to be able to:
1.Copy name from chat and paste in blacklist
2. type them out, the rmt I have seen haven't had names like fjnsiojml sjlmds yet.
It's not hard and maybe they were trying to not insult our intelligence by making yet another "overly easy" option to do things. Though I too dislike RMT and have seen tells every tell was so far by the same person, and everyone in every zone SH and LS I heard complain was also talking about the exact same person. I had them blacklisted before they even sent me a tell. Honestly I don't like the giant right click option. When trying to examine someone it really isn't that hard to accidentally invite them to your free company, your linkshells, your parties and friend lists. I would rather not add additional buttons to not accidentally push imo.

[Lexxuk]

Problem > RMT shouts in X area
Solution > Report to GM
Problem > 1-2 hours later RMT still shouting in X area
Solution > Don't bother reporting to GM's as what's the point if nothing is done quickly?
Problem > RMT shouts in X area and no one bothers to report them as GM's are slow to react.

How difficult would it really be to have a GM monitoring tickets for "RMT /shouts in X area", go directly to that area and instantly ban the shouter? If the GM's were pro-active and quick, responding and banning /shouts in under 10 minutes the shouts would very quickly dry up, the RMT websites would be not want to waste their money on buying the game (or using up their 1.0 accounts) if they knew they would be banned within minutes of their first shout.

/edit before I went to bed last night at midnight I reported a /sh spambot. It's now 16 hours later and in my chat log, is that spam bot.