Gold Sellers

[Gimme]

Should be able to build a filter so that if someone blacklists a character it will generate a Flag on that account if that account gets flags a number of times then it is blocked from chat and forward to get looked into as gold spam.
Or have an option in the black list to flag as a gold spam then if that character or account is flagged a number of times then it is blocked from chat and forwarded on to get looked into.

[JojenReed]

I don't have a problem with just blocking gold-sellers, although I don't think it would be bad to implement a level restriction on chats, like in other MMOs.

In one particular MMO I've played there are a number of main chat channels, with certain restrictions:
Location - Server-wide. Must be level 20 to use.
General - Talks with users in your area. Non-restricted. This channel is rarely used, as anything posted in this channel is likely to be overridden by guild/alliance/party/etc chats.
Peers - Users in your level bracket - 1-19, 20-49, 50-79 etc... Very few gold spammers ever make it past level 30 or so, and by that point peer chat doesn't have much use anyway. The hacked accounts are few and far in-between and it's simple to block them - with right-clicking on the name. Although, to report them you do have to whisper them. And on the hacked accounts front - AO implemented a "secondary password". A 4-digit pin that was required to be entered if your account is signed into by a different IP address than usual. (i.e., if you logged on from a friend's computer, it would ask for your code. Then, if you logged on again on your usual computer, it would ask for it again.) This pretty much eliminated a lot of the hacking issues with compromised accounts.
Shout - Shouts in this game are highly limited - you have to purchase a special ticket in order to use a shout, available from the market for a certain amount of gold, and it has a level restriction to avoid abuse.


With what AO does to lessen chat spam, you don't have to deal with it very often at all, once you make your way up to low-mid-level (around 50-100). By mid-level (100-120), they're pretty much non-existent. And even a casual player can make 100 in a week or so. I will say their bot policies needs work, but at least they've got chat spamming down.

With that said, FFXIV is still fairly fresh. I don't come into a new game expecting everything to be perfect. There will be kinks. And gold sellers and bots is something that every MMO has to deal with at one point or another. And being that this game is so profitable, I highly doubt Square Enix is going to sit back and let something drive away potential customers. These things take time, and I think it's better to just keep reporting and be patient. I only have a few users on my blacklist, and one of them has been deleted since about.. two days ago. Could be a fluke, of course, but still, it was nice to see.

[L33K]

or lobby to teh politicians to make golds selling & cheating a crime & punishable by law!!!

[fancybandage]

or lobby to teh politicians to make golds selling & cheating a crime & punishable by law!!!

A lot of them are already doing time

[KopiKopi]

Before blaiming the gil seller, blame those gamer first. if no one buy no one sell. simple logic. would you start a business if you knew there isnt profit to begin with? If gil seller population can increase, it only means there are many in the game that does indeed go buy those gils. And let's be frank, if you have people in the game trying to sell Titan Hard Mode, And yes you are reading it right, 350k per run. Then yes you can be sure there are peeps out there who will buy gil then pay these stupid people. So even those who attempt to sell such in game services for gil should be taken care too.

[AvRae]

What Tera Online did to stop RMT? Harsh but it locked out a good portion of the market from playing too, they banned China and most of SEA out from the game. Should consider banning China too, probably make them play in a little server on their own with a population cap of 3.

[Faeldra]

What might be a good idea is to make an option when you richt click the spammers name in the chat log and report spamming / rmt etc there, after a person gets say 10x such a report from diffrent players, square could auto ban them, and let a GM check the ppl that get blocked that way. we can flag the spammers way faster than SE this way...

same idia as Valmanway. (i didnt read the whole post lol)

[Asimov]

Why don't you (Square Enix) give us the tools to right click report/blacklist.

Why do we have to go through this hard process to report a RMT.

SE you have the tools to read a log file.

You receive a report.
Go check log date/time and you should be able to read the text where the report i taken from.
And like others mentioned ( when you have received enough reports from a single person, your RMT agents will check and ban)

Lots of players simply dont wanna waste more time reporting.

They have bought this game to have fun and play games, NOT being Agents and using time to report over and over again.

If i wanted that I could just buy Windows office.

We know you have banned multiply of accounts, but RMT have turned to /tell instead of spam main chat.

We have to use a macro to blacklist them, Cmon give us the tool.

[Lunavi]

I'm on the japan realm hades, I didn't exactly know how to register this complaint. So basically a character named Willelm Beak shouting in La Noscea is trying to advertise spamming for gold sales and its flooding the chat constantly. The site he is spamming is mmoaa.com. This kind of thing drives me nuts. Plus the spamming is really annoying.

There is a blacklist. Use it It helps alot!