Gold spammers are taking advantage of SEs limits.

[DivineOracle]

Let's face it, RMT know they will be banned eventually, that is why they make characters in masses then wait till their batch is banned and then bring the other batch after, This is the same problem that was in early days of FFXI.

Eventually some people get tired of blacklisting and reporting them, so they stop bothering, which in the end RMT plans are working, to annoy you as much as possible and get poor fools who are stupid enough to buy their gold. or use whatever dumb services they have for very lazy players.

I blacklist them, and then HOURS later after reporting, they are STILL their spamming. and when they are hammerd, they bring out a replacement, this just keeps going on and on. this is how they work.

In other words SE needs a faster way of dealing with them, and because they know that character will be there a while. so they are very aggressive with the spam.

[ZAsha_Tia]

Well I am about to be the most hated person on FFXIV: ARR but there is a way I believe to slow down if not stop gil sellers for good. This is a suggestion to the people at S.E.. Banning credit cards and internet protocols is good but they will find ways around them. They are currently taking advantage of the create a character option. I don't want this but maybe instead of charging for how many characters you have... maybe charge a fee for each time you create a new character.

Lets say you charge $10 per character creation... I hate it but for them... They would be paying and eventually losing the money they get from the selling in the first place. I believe they will not be able to function if that is the case.

Please everyone voice your opinion on this subject.

[ZAsha_Tia]

Oh and just an FYI... I have been in the same position in Ul'dah and in the last hour 5 new characters have been created.....

[Abrasumente]

I feel the same way, but I do not agree with money for new characters. That's just absurd. I think them losing 30 bucks + on an account is worse than $10 for a name. Buying up those cd keys just means they would be not only taking up more of SE's product and making SE a nice profit, but suffering a monetary loss on their farming end. Thus, SE profits, RMT's go broke. Great strat. Just ban the accounts. Furthermore, I think the right click blacklist would be nice, as well a feature to blacklist an infinite amount of players.

[Nudal]

Going off of ZAsha's post.... Instead of a $10 fee for character creation, how about make it a security deposit instead. You pay $10, then get refunded that money if you prove to be a legitimate player with no bans/reports for spamming.

[RaphaelDDL]

SE actually profits a bit from RMT.
SE bans, they make another account and re-buy game (SE profits).

[Delrosa]

SE actually profits a bit from RMT.
SE bans, they make another account and re-buy game (SE profits).

They have to profit from someone cause with their lazy attitude towards this game they aren't going to have much of a player base to profit from before long.

[NCsniper]

There should be a report rmt spam button, that saves the last post that you want to report as rmt advertising. It should silence the account's ability to broadcast in game and mark the account as suspect until it is checked out by a gm. Maybe Just have it silence them after about 5 or 10 people click report to hopefully stop people from abusing it.

[Loony_BoB]

There should be a report rmt spam button, that saves the last post that you want to report as rmt advertising. It should silence the account's ability to broadcast in game and mark the account as suspect until it is checked out by a gm. Maybe Just have it silence them after about 5 or 10 people click report to hopefully stop people from abusing it.

Yes. Although it shouldn't work that quickly - one or even five people should not be allowed to ruin one person's game because we all know that would be abused. I would opt for a full communication silence after 15 people report the user. It should happen very quickly. When you report someone, it should send any chatlogs from that user's name along with the report, and if there is no wrongdoing (ie, the person reporting them was trolling) then the people doing the reporting should be given a one hour (minimum) game-ban for their sins. That should be there only to act as a deterrent to trolls.

[Vinter]

Just don't allow shouting or yelling until you're level 15 with any class. That'll solve most of the problem.