Gold Sellers

[Doctorhoo]

I think SE needs to do a better job in this area.
+ (EASY START FIX) Start off with an Ignore/Blacklist option direct from the /shout in general chat with a Right Click on the name instead of typing it in as the most basic protection for people to quickly block spammers.

I have some level 50 crafters in my FC that got hit by SE's Gil Stealing Police because they legitly did business on the Market and crafted some high profit items at the right time which sold. Do others have to fear SE doing this every month and taking more GIL away from others too? That's not something I want to become the norm and don't wish that upon anyone. BTW, I'm not for limiting Gil Transfers in person or by mail. That system needs a tweak too while we are on it (Type your friend's name vs scrolling down - sucks when you have over 100 on it).

+ (EASY FIX) - Get a LIVE GM in game on the server to watch Gold Spammers and help with policing chat, especially in the City States. Even if its only for 3 hours a day, its better than none.

[Chakoteh]

I have 60+ on my blacklist, all gil sellers... I think 4 of those have been deleted which means the others are still active players. I was copying and pasting the /tell or /shout and sending it to SE thru the cheating submission, but given that only 4 accounts have been deleted... not sure what they are doing with those complaints.

[Elyl]

A block list should be used for players that you don't want to listen to, not filled up with gold spammers. Aion had this same issue and it drove me away and a lot of other people.
MMOs have had features out there to block them for years, so the fact that SE failed to implement anything to block them from the start is a major failure in my opinion.

-Lvl chat restrictions: 1-9; 10-19; 20-29; etc....
-Right click - report spam is even better. And it auto adds to a separate block list. If more than XX # of people block the same person they get banned entirely from chat.
-Shout time restrictions.

The fact that I've reported over 100 spammers using the in-game support desk and only 6 have been deleted from my block list is a serious disappointment. If something isn't done in the next month or so to address this issue, it will cause me to cancel the subscription, as it just screams "F-you, don't care, deal with it" attitude towards the player base.

[Misiah]

Some of those may have been hijacked accounts. People have been posting on the forums about this going on. Folks need better passwords and need to use Tokens to secure their accounts. Hopefully, SE is making them get a Token when they help them get their account back.

[KisaiTenshi]

I actually deleted the entire blacklist when I got to 75 and it turns out none of them are still going by that point. Though my blacklist is back up to 8 now.

[Shadowtrek]

It would be cool if there were an option to only get private messages from friends or party members :-)

[MrRooks]

How is this still an issue? It's nuts, every hour or so I have to add a new person to my block list. Get your shit in check Square.

[nijn78]

It would be cool if there were an option to only get private messages from friends or party members :-)

Nope, if you want to contact a lvl 50 DoH for materia or crafting, how would you?
I like the idea of unable to whisper below lvl 10 better.

[Natolii]

Frankly, I would much prefer people not being able to send me a Tell unless they were either of the following:

a) On my friend's list.
b) In my Free company.

I do not bother at all with Say and Shout. It's the tell spam that pisses me off.

[Karatecatgrl]

Ps3 players actually have it easier to add to blacklist.

You do know there is a slash command for blacklist?

It's /blacklist add "name here"
With ps3 our on screen keyboard has a predictive text dictionary and it will recall order patterns of typed sentences so all I have to do is... I tell the game to send a tell to the gold seller and then use the d pad and delete /tell I then pen the keypad and type /b and select from the dictinary blacklist and then it predicts my next word to be add and then the quotes. Then I use the dpad to insert the 2nd quotes and then press x twice. Quick and painless.

Ive only had 4 deleted from my blacklist. But I would like to see something done with the chat feature.