Gold Spamming Solution

So wouldn't it be quite simple to suspend those accounts once they have been blacklisted by more than 10 people within an hour? That way the gold spammers would be stopped in their tracks pretty fast. It would also be easy code to write and implement. Just an idea.

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Originally Posted by KomoChameleon

So wouldn't it be quite simple to suspend those accounts once they have been blacklisted by more than 10 people within an hour? That way the gold spammers would be stopped in their tracks pretty fast. It would also be easy code to write and implement. Just an idea.

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Several people, including myself have suggested this. The blacklist appears to be entirely client sided, since spam sometimes slips through when you load it, which wouldn't happen if it was being blocked before being sent to the client.

Stuff like this makes me sad:
http://i44.tinypic.com/29ldbg4.png
That level 50 character is likely going to be stripped and/or the guild stripped. Too bad there isn't a way to , like, send a PM to a FC leader somehow.

Even better yet ...when I click on the name and it asks you if you want to send a tell...add the option to blacklist the player right from there.....this would at least make it easier to blacklist them quickly.

I suspect though that the peoples who get their accounts hacked might be buying gold, and that is how? But I could be wrong.

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Originally Posted by KomoChameleon

I suspect though that the peoples who get their accounts hacked might be buying gold, and that is how? But I could be wrong.

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I really want to say this is the reason. Why would anyone trust some someone who uses hacked accounts for spamming?

Gdmit how the hell did they get my shit =/. I don't need to buy shit from anywhere ; ;

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Originally Posted by Scission

Gdmit how the hell did they get my shit =/. I don't need to buy shit from anywhere ; ;

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Do you have the same login and password on any other game or email?

My email maybe. But not password ; ;

Man, I do feel for you. It must be weird as hell seeing a screenshot of yourself being raped like that.

It is mental rape yes. My main is a drg with relic. I did that in my first week of playing as I took a week off work just for that ; ;. Now I was working on my bard relic ; ;

Still nothing fkin a bro this shit sucks. I even deactivated my account waited 10 mins and reactivated it to log in and still 3102

Spam situation is intolerable.

They need to have GMs hop between major centers and insta-ban any spammers. Let the Task Force/Customer Service sort out if it was a legitimate ban after the fact.

I'm more interested in how they're actually hacking accounts... back in the early alpha/beta they had a problem where people logging into the game would somehow log into someone else's account.
We never really figured out how that was happening and apparently SE fixed it, but I wonder if they didn't completely patch the code and now a back door is completely open for hackers who know where to look.

Blacklisted by more than 10 people an hour huh? So if 10 people or so decide they don't like this one player, they could all blacklist and instant ban? Yeah, nothing like a new way to cyber-bully. Great idea.

If only they could utilize some cutting edge tech from the 1980's "AOL-type" chat rooms..
Have a admin watching all the server chats, not full UI's and world rendering... just chat channels (town "chatrooms" specificly) and hand
out flags to accounts for investigation (with a temporary ban of coarse) to obvious offenders. This is an easy, fast, effective, and most
importantly to the service provider CHEAP solution...

There are spammers in the major cities right now that have been fixtures like lamp posts for the last 2 weeks ... I report these ASAP with
full copy paste of the exact spammed message shout/say/tell whatever.. That type of complete negligence is shockingly bad for a
AAA & SUB-based title in the current market.

IMHO SE or any MMO needs to offer a higher standard of customer service and response time to justify it's monthly SUB..
There are more and more free to play MMO's that are coming close to the quality of SUB based MMOS.

FYI .. I am not hating .. I love this game despite it's faults and plan on continuing to play and pay it's SUB 8).
Honestly there a few things that needs polished, reworked, utilized, or straight up fixed.
This lack real time action against spammers is in my top 5 of these issues.
And no... 2 weeks of the same spammers is NOT acceptable AT ALL!