Gold Sellers

[moudoka]

This will get me banned, but I don't care. SHUT DOWN THE FUCKING SITE WTSGG. Those goddamn idiots spam me hundreds of times a day, and SE does NOTHING.
These people have Facebook pages. They are on twitter. And yet, miraculously, SE doesn't do ANYTHING about them. Constant harassment by their bots, all day long. Report them, nothing happens, their bots are never deleted, or banned. Their accounts continue to spam and harass paying players. You've got one month SE. End this harassment.

[KisaiTenshi]

If you see "stacking", it's definitely bots. This is exactly how they work in a dozen other MMO's.


If you see "players" that never move, and are in the same spot every single day and minute until a new patch (these guys only disappeared after maintenance, which suggests that they needed time to update their bot software.) That is also a characteristic of bots. Also these ones in particular can be tested for botting because you can time them.

[Reikon]

That to me is just sad that there's that many bots in this game that we pay for. I would expect this from a Free to play. Every single player in that list was the same Class, same levels and farming all the same things. How is this not a red flag? Having one single Admin for a few hours a day per server would clean this problem up so much. These guys are level 50 bots!!! All on Faerie Server =/

[KisaiTenshi]

That to me is just sad that there's that many bots in this game that we pay for. I would expect this from a Free to play. Every single player in that list was the same Class, same levels and farming all the same things. How is this not a red flag? Having one single Admin for a few hours a day per server would clean this problem up so much. These guys are level 50 bots!!! All on Faerie Server =/

This is Excalibur:

Also there's dozens of bots not shown because their names end with a '

[moudoka]

All run by the same hacksite I'm sure, that SE does nothing about whatsoever.

[Reikon]

Here is a great example of the same and the spam we get on this server. Faerie. Making this game less fun to play and bringing my subscription into question.

[Buff_Archer]

I'm getting a CONSTANT stream of spam via tells, I can't even carry on a normal conversation with friends without the messages being interspersed with spam messages from multiple senders. This is unacceptable and has to stop!!! Now my friends and I have to go on busy so we don't get spam and that limits our options with conversing with each other. The only other place I've received so much spam is older email addresses long since abandoned for that very reason.

The best thing I can think of to equate this experience to at this point, is if you and a bunch of friends were to make reservations at a nice restaurant, spending more money than you would pay at a typical restaurant so you could have a stable. hassle-free environment to enjoy each other's company, and as you're trying to converse and eat dinner, a steady stream of people walk in, get up on the table and kneel right in front of each of you, and fart directly into your face. A couple minutes after they leave, someone else comes in and takes their place. And then when you complain to the management about all these people who keep facefarting you, thinking- 'Surely they'll put an end to this right now!'- they tell you to just pinch your nose, hold your breath, and ignore it.

[Lucke]

That Free Week Campaign is coming, and that's great. Let's have potential new players and subs get constant /tells from these people. Yeah, that's a good way to get new customers SE. Constantly reporting via some antiquated system is getting tedious. I don't even want to report these guys any more because it's such a waste of time, and takes waaaaay too much time.

[Jas710]

So... what's going on,S-E? It is now 2015, and the game is still plagued with RMT spammers. If you think posting a monthly "action against rmt" update means anything to your customers, you are way off-base. You mean to tell us that you've brought this problem to the dev team, and they don't believe you? Maybe your customer support group in the US can't speak Japanese to communicate this properly to Yoshi P? Maybe your US boss is incompetent and has no idea what's been going on? Maybe the golden rule is you guys are making money on the side from these gilséllers? Is the dev team technically inept at BANNING ACCOUNTS INSTEAD OF CHARACTERS? Or how about this revelation... BAN IP ADDRESSES FROM KNOWN RMT WEBSITES. You guys obviously know the URLs by now? Or how about trying this strategy... HAVE S-E EMPLOYEES CREATE CHARACTERS AND JUST IDLE TO GET SPAM /TELLS EVERY 5 MINUTES EASILY to target ban them.What's it going to take? A psuedo-class action lawsuit? A petition with thousands of signatures emailed directly to your CEO? A massive drop in subscriptions to wake you guys up? What's the story, oh mighty Square-Enix?

[QT_Melon]

SE needs to be more harsh on people BUYING the gil than just selling it. If I knew I faced a permanent ban if I'm caught buying gil by SE it's gonna greatly diminish the chances of people doing so because of the fear of not being able to play again. Less buyers = less sellers.

As it stands, people are getting slaps on the wrist and far lower number of any accounts being suspended from doing so in the first place.

Sure it's harsh and I'm sure they can develop a system showing actual RMT being traded.