Gold Sellers

[Twillin]

Im going insain with the amounts of tells ive gotten this last month. Its so horrible im almost constantly on /busy. I know gold spam is a thing in mmo's..im used to it but holy cow please do something! Id love to a) Ban the account and b) not have to take anyone out of a blacklist just so i can add more.

This is almost too much

[SolusFl]

This problem will never be resolved...SE doesn't really care about gold sellers and will ban just enough so everyone thinks they do care. Gold Sellers bring in too much money for SE.

[Dererk]

This problem will never be resolved...SE doesn't really care about gold sellers and will ban just enough so everyone thinks they do care. Gold Sellers bring in too much money for SE.

they do manage to get rid of a whole lot of them the fact that my server was very quiet a few months ago shows this.

The problem is they will keep coming back unless people stop buying from them its not fully the devs fault that they keep coming back its the people who keep buying from them that's to blame if they stopped they'd just go to another game and leave us alone.

[Jentaru]

they do manage to get rid of a whole lot of them the fact that my server was very quiet a few months ago shows this.

The problem is they will keep coming back unless people stop buying from them its not fully the devs fault that they keep coming back its the people who keep buying from them that's to blame if they stopped they'd just go to another game and leave us alone.

there are many ways dev's can stop this they just choose not to they say they delete accounts and such and ban accounts. but the fact that i feel like they are pulling weekly numbers out their butt ... sounds like they really dont care. they need a separate report function for gil sellers and needs to be addressed asap. accounts deleted and ip bans.

[Kaze3434]

there are many ways dev's can stop this they just choose not to they say they delete accounts and such and ban accounts. but the fact that i feel like they are pulling weekly numbers out their butt ... sounds like they really dont care. they need a separate report function for gil sellers and needs to be addressed asap. accounts deleted and ip bans.

this part in particular is a bad idea/wont work well because its not hard to change on ip.

[Black91CRX]

Make you wonder just how many people must be buying gil.

[RaginCajun]

The thing that I would most like to see is gm's moderating the main citiy states, i get a ton of friend requests every day from level 1 characters that seem to just stand there and spam. I'm sure SE are making enough money to have a team of people perform this duty to at least give the playerbase a sense that this problem is being actively tackled.

[Faelandaea]

It is indeed absolutely amazing how many "friends" I have in Ul'Dah that keep sending me requests. Has anyone else noticed this? Maybe it's just a Phoenix server thing, but EVERY friend invite and spam I get from these bots are level 1 in Ul'Dah. LOL. It makes me wonder what's so special about Ul'Dah compared to New Gridania and Limsa.

[DylfinSecond]

Hey, WTF with gold sellers? They annoyed me on version 1.2, on start 2.0 and now when I start to play again! Is it really hard to add "Report Gold Seller" to popup menu in chat? And block account of this f...n gold seller? I almost automatically block anyone who write me something in private already.

[Faelandaea]

Hey, WTF with gold sellers? They annoyed me on version 1.2, on start 2.0 and now when I start to play again! Is it really hard to add "Report Gold Seller" to popup menu in chat? And block account of this f...n gold seller? I almost automatically block anyone who write me something in private already.

That's as I stated a few pages back - SE actually promotes Gil selling due to how they set up this system. In order to decline a friend invite you have to either write a macro (yes, that's easy but why use hotbar space with a macro to "make" a feature for us that should be in by game command?) or go through a multi-stage process. You can NOT blacklist someone who has a pending friend invite. And now what I am encountering is a method that seems to get around even that - the bot was actually insta-spamming me with the friend invites even with a macro to decline them, and before the blacklist option could even register, I had a friend invite from the bot again. i had absolutely no choice but to wait till the damned thing logged off before I could blacklist it.

In every other MMO I play, regardless of activity, you could simply right click and blacklist someone in the chat. If there was a friend invite, it automatically made that go away. But SE has designed the system in FFXIV to be as Gil-Seller friendly as possible to the point that it makes me wonder:

• Are their "stats" they post on banning of RMT actually authentic?
• Is SE somehow getting kickbacks from these Gil sites for financial gain?

It is VERY VERY VERY easy to code in the ability to right-click and blacklist someone regardless of a friend invite. The fact that Square Enix has BLOCKED this feature (this actually takes more code than the solution I describe) says a lot in my eyes.