Motivate Square Enix to deal with bots & spammers ?

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There i$ only one thing that motivate$ $quare Enix to do anything.

It'$ the $ame with all companie$.

Like it or not, they earn a lot of money from RMT.

I'm something of a programmer. I realize that "regular expressions" (programming tool) are used to parse out the spam and that's why the RMT messages went from clear as day to "myg11u r1.com, replace the first 1 with i and the second, third 1s with l" (made up example).

However, it would not be very difficult at all to limit how much characters under certain level points can shout, like not being able to shout more than once per minute below level 10, twice per minute below level 30, and 3 times per minute below level 50.

They could even, so as not to harm the leading single shout made, add a command for /shoutraise that didn't go against this count and shout for "{Raise} {Can I have it?} <pos>"

The clear and rampant use of third-party tools in XI for years and the limited action they took against them was proof enough.

As matter of fact, the only major ban that occurred in XI's history was Salvage bans with basically amounted to players were duping which caused them to complete a content arc much faster than the grueling pace that was intended.