Fix the gil spam shout issue or the community will fix it for you.

[LamiaTrucido]

SE, you know the fans of your game are endlessly creative.

You know this because of 10 years of FFXI.
You know this because of windower.
You know this because of 100 different mods and aps that came out based on windower.
You know this because of salvage duping.
You know this because of bots at ground kinds for 7+ years.
You know this because of fish bots and Hakyru.
You know this because of the unlimited colorless soul packet issue that has been exploited recently.

If you don't fix the gil spam shout, someone else will, with a mod that interacts with your game in a way you don't like.

I recommend you fix it before someone with too much time on their hands fixes it for us.

[Timsierramist]

Agreed. It's almost a daily chore now. Get up in your room, take a quick shower, get dressed, check weapons for rust, and report/blacklist endless RMT spammers before you can even start the game. If you don't, your entire chatbox will be filled with endless BS. SE has done an excellent job thus far on this game, and a lot of the main issues have been solved. They really should focus on getting rid of these Gil Sellers for good now. Obviously, we can't fully get rid of them and never will. But we need to do more to make them feel unwelcome than have them run unchecked as it almost seems right now.

[Daraqueth]

It IS possible to get rid of them for good.

It just depends on what lvl SE is willing to interact.

Don't allow use of -/shout until lvl 15 (will make it a little harder for lowbies to communicate - but will take spammers time to level up a char every time they get banned).

Or go the Eve-Online way - Sell game-time that you can "redeem" in-game as items... allowing them to be traded on the market. This allows players who want to buy GIL - to sell game-time to players who would rather spend GIL than real money for game time - this method completely eliminates gil-traders - but requires good ways to make GIL - otherwise the gil/$ wont be worth it.

Don't allow spam-shouting - this will make it harder to gather PUGs in open channels, instead LS' would have to cover that part, and players wanting to assemble groups would have to gather there.

If nothing is done - I would wager option 3 will happen anyways - simply because people will want to turn off shout.

[rwyan]

The community is its own worst enemy. If players didn't actually use these services, then we wouldn't have to put up with it. Granted, the best thing for SE to do, like Daraqueth mentioned, is for SE to sell an in-game item that can be traded amongst players and be redeemed for in-game time.