Gold Sellers

[Peachy]

Makes you wonder. They dont do this for fun, so they must have a lot of customers in FFXIV. So maybe SE doesnt want to enforce harshly because they would end up banning a massive amount of players. EQ2 sold their own gold at one point and would temp ban players for buying from off sites, along with what others have said about TERA, I find it really hard to believe this is simply SE not acting.

They can easily enforce something and it would prevent a lot of other would be gil buyers. Id like to see a small tag in a persons search info if they have bought gil and been punished for it.

[Giralus]

Options to :
Block tells or friend invites from lvl 1-9,10-19,20-29,30-39,40-50,50.

Block tells from anyone not on friends list, in free company, or link shells.

Block friend invites from anyone not in free company or linkshells.

Have level restricted chat and shout channels same as above . 1-9,10-19,20-29,30-39,40-49,50

Have a reposted time for shout of 5 minutes. Shout isn't for constant communication. It's to notify all people in zone of something.

One click report button that also adds the person to your blacklist .

Blacklist size increased to 5000 people

[OlyverW]

It is getting really bad I hate having to go busy all the time, I went off busy for less than a minute to join a friends party and got 4 back to back RMT tells! . I have friends I wouldn't mind getting a /tell from if they need me or want me to join their party.

I have a few mitigating suggestions since this problem doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon that if you are busy you can receive tells and party invites from people who are already on your friends list or have some other way to quickly communicate with people on your friend list (besides using moogle mail) . Also the ready check in dungeons should not be blocked by busy

[Nashred]

They got bad on ultos.. I dont get why they constantly spam.. I can read once, If someone wants to buy gil they can go to their site they dont need to see if 30 times in 5 minutes, it just makes people angry..
Ultros has got so bad right now and bots are everywhere. As soon as our server opened for new players they moved in.

It is easy to stop too, get rid of the free 30 day trial period or require a charge card to set up the free trial.. Maybe charge very small charge like 50 cents for a trial month..

Why is the black list so limited too...

The bots are so obvious why are they still there?

I think it is funny when they brag about banning 300 rmt accounts or what ever.. Really I could do that a day on one server.

[moudoka]

They don't even hide their botting anymore, why should they? On Fairie, we found almost a dozen BLM bots stuck in some sort of loop. Almost twenty players reported/recorded the whole event. Not a single ban, because the next day, those same bots were level 50 BLMs being sold on these sites. It's the same for miner/botantist bots. They all have the AFK chair up, and are running in exact patterns, mining/harvesting shards to sell on the marketboard. The bots are out of control, and the methods we have for reporting them don't work, and are time consuming for a scripted reply of "we look into this, we know it's annoying, etc" and nothing gets done.

Every MMO I've played has bots, but man, they are brazen on ARR, because there are NO in-game GMs. Not a single one. You'd think a company as big as SE could hire a few in-game GMs to monitor this activity and bring down the banhammer. In fact, as I type this post, I've been spammed by 5 gil-sellers already.

[Akary]

i wish there was a report option when you right click there name and it auto generates the relevant info for them without having to waste 15mins each and every time

[Able]

At this point, I just roll on busy status constantly so I can't receive tells. I use LS's to communicate.

[Zedd702]

There are plenty of good suggestions. But I am telling you if they would add the previous things I suggested and one more important item I failed to mention. We'd see a helluva alot less spam.

If they restricted /t, /shout, /yell to a level like say 20 (yes it sounds harsh, but it would reduce the spam immensely and give SE time to investigate and ban appropriately). It would make spammers work a little harder to send these tells/messages instead of filling up my blacklist list with a lvl 1 who sent me a gold spam message then recving the exact same format from a new level one just minutes after I black listed the first. City of heroes had this very same restriction in place. It was a lvl 10 requirement before a player could send tells/shouts/etc and even higher level for trial accounts, because this is where the flood gates pour in with Gil sellers, they don't have to pay to advertise so they create many trial accounts and spam away.

Recap:

SE should:

1. Place restrictions on trial accounts: ie friend requests, in-game email etc
2. Auto Spam blocker. Time a player out for spam after 2 back to back messages (more so for shouts/yells)
3. Level requirement to send tells to players and even higher lvl req on trial (non-paid) accounts.

Those three things would slow gil selling and spam tremendously...

The MAIN thing I would LOVE to see is the option to BLACKLIST the ACCOUNT, not just the name of said hjkahsk or adfsfsfsf... If you could block the account rather than a small fraction or temporary character 1-1000, that will force them to be a lot more creative like having to create a whole new account to spam from because not only have you blocked the first character, you blocked future messages that can be potentially made from the same account in the next 2-3 minutes.

[Darksummoner198]

its like anything thing else they use them in return ban you for buying so in all means make money off you and them same time this is how the game industry works like it or not.

[kratier]

came here to post this issue needs to be addressed immediately

some random gold seller just has been constantly spamming me and he just makes new accounts and like. literally within less than a minute he's on another character spamming me again