Losing Interest due to Gil SellersFollow

I hit my cap for gold sellers in my Black List.

I just started playing FFXIV a few weeks, and I love the game. The graphics, the music, the main quest story, the freedom in classes, all of it is just what I wanted in an MMORPG. But I am losing interest quick due to one small factor: gil sellers.

I don't know how to explain it really. I am coming over from WoW, and I rarely saw a gold sellers, and I was on the most populated server for Alliance. The only reasons I can think of why i didn't see gold sellers in WoW was due to either gold being a bit easier to come by or that Blizzard actually took action towards gold sellers.

I don't know. I am seriously consider quitting this game cause I feel SE has no initiative to try and stop Gil selling sites.

I am just over acting? In the future do you think that SE will actually do something to the sites to lower all this god forsaken spamming?

*sigh*

Ya, FFXIV is the new hotness, but doesn't this problem manifest due to lack of security measures against currency sellers? It has been about 8 years since I've played FFXI, and a little while ago I checked to see how the game was doing, and many people mentioned that the game became over run with Gil sellers there.

I know FFXIV is new, and people are hopping over to check the game out (as am I) but to see WoW, a game with over 7x the amount of players, handle thier gold sellers in a swifter method makes me think that SE just doesn't care. I mean, this is the economy of the game that they are just allowing to fall to ****, and the idea if I wanna continue to play, only having to compete with people who just purchase millions of Gil is depressing to say the least.

It just seems like they are turning a blind eye to big issue. And there seriously are no rules in the TS stating that the selling of in-game items for real money is a breach of service? Look what Nexon is doing to player who are cheating and making money, they are taking them to court.

I find it a nuisance if I must pay $15 a month to SE and have SE expect me to pay $5-$10 a month on gil from a third party. That is just...*ugh*

Very similar to Cat, I've put all my tells into an isolated chat log (which only displays tells), removed tells from my generalised chat log, and disabled the sound. Is it ideal? Not really, but the amount of regular people who actually use tells to communicate in this compared to XI is very small, so it is still an effective way to isolate the spam. Only downside to this is missing legitimate tells, but everybody I speak to on a regular basis is either in a FC or LS with me, and know I filter out tells, so it hasn't had any impact on the way I communicate. Hope this helps, once the wall of text has been beaten, the game is enjoyable I'm my opinion, don't let a small proportion of the community stop you from playing!

The more anti-RMT tactics that they use on the game the more of a hindrance it is on the playerbase. (Ex. not being able to send /tells until a certain level.) I rather deal with this then have that to be honest.

while wew're on the subject of gilsellers.. why is it in FFXI although they did exist and run rampant they werent advertising/sending people tells... yet they do so in this game?

Is that the new trend? i.e is it happening in FFXI now too?

Pretty sure they were doing the /tell thing even before they made the level cap to 80.

Fixing the holes isn't really an anti-RMT tactic per se. We're talking about fixing or removing the loopholes in the game that allow RMT to circumvent playing the game as it's meant to be played. We're not talking about restrictions on auction listings, player to player trades, ect..


I haven't been back too long, but I don't recall receiving any RMT tells since prior to abyssea expansions. Even then, it was much more rare to see than it is in XIV currently. I might get a few in a week(including a lot of time spent afk in bazaar mode) back then.

Congratulations, this by far the stupidest statement made this week. Considering how dumb some of the other contenders were, this is a pretty impressive feat you've managed to accomplish.

Gil is damn near worthless in this game. Once you hit level 50, everything worthwhile comes from drops or grinding non-gil currency. All gil does is pile up and become an amusing side game to see how high you can get your stockpile before you find something to spend it on. So far, I haven't found anything yet. I have almost enough gil to buy my own house if I were so inclined. Not that I would. Wondering off into one of the housing zones is pretty much the most boring thing you can do in the game.

The only people that would ever buy gil are gullible folks like yourself that for some reason haven't managed to figure out how little it actually matters in this game. There's a reason why the gil sellers are trying so hard to get people to buy from them. It's because there is no reason to buy from them. Now, stop your whining and enjoy the game, or go play something else.

Yoshida has stated that he prefers a cyclical economy. Rest assured that they will artificially raise the value as needed with major content patches to combat inflation. It's not the greatest idea(personal opinion), but it gets the job done. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if SE already had a lot of content on deck that they're holding back for the specific purpose of trying to regulate the economy.

Game launches and gil starts flooding the economy > FC housing is released to siphon some of the gil out and restore value

gil flood > gil sink > gil flood... so on

I'm not gonna accuse SE of forcing players toward RMT, but it will and does happen as a result of how they choose to regulate the economy. Farm gil while it's worthless and stockpile it until a patch comes along to restore value. If you don't, you're not going to be enjoying content as it's released, If you do, you'll be lucky enough to claim dibs and not have to wait until demand falls off.


Edited, Jul 6th 2014 4:29am by FilthMcNasty

My feeling exactly, I don't know what the OP is really complaining about, RMTs are doing no damage to me and I play a part in nearly everything in XIV. In XI RMTs were effecting the game by over camping NMs, Sky and at times were MPKn players.

When XI change drops to Rare/Ex this almost stopped a lot of it. One of the changes I asked for years ago which some players said wouldn't fix anything when in fact it did.

I love XIV's gil way that you don't need it to play. Gear is easy to get, it's easy to do most things.

I wish there was an easy way to delete the entire black list at once, instead of having to delete one name at a time. XI had a command line option to do so. Wish that XIV had the same thing.