Spammers/Gil Sellers

[oceanne]

An easy solution would be to make a puzzle game when you log in... not a captcha, an actual little mini-game with even 9 squares that have to form a picture before you are allowed to load your character in.

We put this into other games, and it works fine.

Dragon nest game have something like that , you need to add a 4 digit password with the mouse on screen , but the number on the pad change place so you have to be human to know where your digit are every time , seem anoying at start , but end up pretty usefull against auto-log bot and add another layer to the account security

with all the money SE doing with us , the least they could do is have an some emploi to monitor the chat-log in town , that woudnt cost them a fortune to do so , and now RMT start to shout at critical point outside town our serveur have shouter in Mor-dorna and dragon head camp now . soon theure will be shouter everywhere , seriously its is getting over-frustrating, i dont wanna pay for a game that need me to blist 50 ppl/hrs cause SE dont wanna do a move ... if it going to keep that way , i mignt stop SE payment and go play some FREE game that dont have RMT spamer .... i dont pay to be spamed

[Elim]

I would just like to be able to block them from chat with a simple right click -> Blacklist. Its such a pain to spend time trying to catch "asdsad sdfsad" to block while in a town (I shouldn't have to turn off shout to talk to others who are asking questions). Even more so when you have 2 or 3 in the same area constantly spamming.

Not sure if everyone has this problem or if there's a way to fix it, but when I scroll up to look at a spammers name it forces me to scroll back down every time that spammer reposts his message. It makes writing down/clicking a name difficult, though I suppose if I make the chat bigger(big enough for the whole spam message) that would help... I just don't want to.

[FFVII_CID]

Ctrl+C copy their name - Ctrl+V paste it into blocklist.

Now my BL has over 60 gil selling spammer / bots. Over 1/4 of my BL is filled already!

Honestly, if I were a moderator I would have banned over 60 of those gil selling spamming idiots by now!!!! Do something about it SE or let people report them more easily so we can get them banned faster than they can spam us.

It's not that hard to do.. just go in the game and instantly you will see it happening! Click on them AND BAN THEM!!!!

There is just no excuse for this situation. If you don't want to pay someone to do it then let me do it, I would ban them for free!

[Sadana]

I can't imagine being a new player on an NA (or any RMT plagued) server. How would they learn to play, ask for help, or just chat with people? I ran off to a JP server while the log in problems were the biggest issue; now I've nearly abandoned my NA server character because of the constant spamming I'm hit with in every town. Not fun!

[FFVII_CID]

I'm sure that even the forums are better moderated than the actual GAME itself!!! I see no evidence of any sort of moderation in there.. any moderator would need to be completely BLIND to not see what's going on in there! 60 spamming gil selling bots on my BL still have not been banned.. some of them added last week.

I saw 2 of them just standing there at level 1, they are NOT playing the game they are just using bots to spam in public chat. They should be banned. Simple.

So why isn't it happening?

[KisaiTenshi]

An easy solution would be to make a puzzle game when you log in... not a captcha, an actual little mini-game with even 9 squares that have to form a picture before you are allowed to load your character in.

We put this into other games, and it works fine.

That only works in those games because they also use gameguard/hackshield+exe/memory crypto to prevent the bots from just reading/writing to the memory space. Most of the script kiddies are just using pixel-hunting keyboard-hooks. So the only way something like that works is by making the visual data something that can't be "screen read" eg 3D model.
SE can break the memory/packet hackers just by verifying that the information set is valid.
eg, command speed, idle time, position, repetition.

a nice solution would be a "vote" system . when enough peoples (300-400) have blacklister somone

Only need 4, not 400.
The tell'ing ones are memory or packet hackers, because they somehow know where you are. For example, I can be a fresh login, inside the inn, and get tell'd having never left the room. That was my first clue that they're hacking, not doing something visual.

[oceanne]

Only need 4, not 400.
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well the number i wrote was only an example lol

[FFVII_CID]

The tell'ing ones are memory or packet hackers, because they somehow know where you are. For example, I can be a fresh login, inside the inn, and get tell'd having never left the room. That was my first clue that they're hacking, not doing something visual.

This happened to me too! I was wondering how they even knew i had just logged on, because i was still in the inn room!!! :S

[SpitefulCrow]

I don't often post in forums because frankly I dislike them but I had to come here to say something about this problem. It's obnoxious and is ruining mine and my wife's first experience with the Final Fantasy series. I have had /shout turned off for a week. That wasn't enough. I get 2 to 3 private messages an hour. I have even had to turn off /yell. My blacklist is filling up fast. This problem is a huge issue and could be fixed so easily using any of the number of suggestions posted here by others so there is no need in me suggesting the obvious. Fix it.

TL;DR - /bumb

[Suikoden]

This needs to be acknowledged by SE already.