Gold Sellers

[nijn78]

I was grinding out Garuda HM for 2 days finally beat it and my relic quest was gone (I didn't abandon it, it just vanished) thats alot of time and gill invested, and Sqenix doesn't seem to care at all, I put in a ticket and they told me to post here, good thing i'm still on free play so i dont acctually have to spend money on this broken game with shitty support!

I'm confused, what does this have to do with gold sellers?

[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]

This doesn't solve tell Spam. Frankly it needs to be treated as harassment.

Here's how they could fix it:

Newly created account characters or accounts:
-Can't use shouts or yells until lv 10.
-Cool down on global chats.

Hacked Accounts:
-Report and ignore option added when you click/target on a name in chat.
-30 reports will mute them permanently and send a report to square enix to investigate.
(Judge debuff)

Strike their business:
-Put a gold transfer cap in mails and trades.

[HongKongPhoo]

That would. Not work because gold sellers would just have several people delivering to one person. What might work is if there was a cap on how much someone can receive in a day or even a week.

[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.

[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!!!

[CountBaal]

You can Black list a gold seller real quick by typing /blist add <R> this will add the last person that sent a message. Hope this helps.