Is it just me or are all these gil sellers ran by 14 year old kids?

[Teeko]

I guess they figured if Billy Mays screaming at you can sell a cleaning product, them annoying the crap out of you is a legit business strategy.

[DragonFlyy]

The language is horrible to A) bypass filters, or B) google translated it for them from their native language. The reason they do spam it, is because it works. A lot of people who have never played an MMO wouldn't understand that it is against the rules to buy gil. It's been that way since the beginning of MMOs.

[Lovescake]

better than them doing it in Shout to be honest.. but check it out.



i literally logged in and within 10 or so seconds this was my chatbox.

[NyneAlexander]

judging by most of the in game attitudes and practices, the majority of the player base is 14 year old kids too. So it would make sense

[LineageRazor]

They do it because it works. Just like email spam. Doesn't matter if you hit 1000 people who aren't the target market as long as you also hit the target market. It's such a terrible business model that it's been successful for as long as there have been MMOs.

To report them, main menu > support > contact us > report cheating. Or something like that.

This ^

It's what mass marketing is all about. It's the reason we have e-mail spam, unsolicited callers, even television advertising. It doesn't matter how annoying or intrusive it is, or how much it alienates the majority of people - if it's cheap, and manages to bring even a tiny percentage of customers from the overall number of people being advertised to, then it is profitable and unlikely to stop anytime soon.

[Synapse]

Like, why do they think that spamming you over and over multiple times will get people to want to buy from them?

Its a business tactics, it will work on many people, repetition until it becomes common.

More importantly, do they understand that 1000k is 1 mil? I swear they run these business' to make money but have no clue how to run a business!

Its good to keep the same unit format. easier.

[Xieveral]

Is it just me or are all these gil sellers ran by 14 year old kids?

Know your customer. Their consumer base is made up of illiterate children and manchildren.

[Luxx]

Come on, 4 posts and you are calling people names already ?

the other guys been here for 3 yrs and he's being a rude annoying grammar nazi
or w/e you wanna call them. so...

[Clavaat]

English usually isn't their first language. By taking up space, it forces it you to see it. The text doesn't matter as long as the website is in there. I'd honestly be curious to see a documentary or something on the daily life of an RMT.

[FritoBandito]

the other guys been here for 3 yrs and he's being a rude annoying grammar nazi
or w/e you wanna call them. so...

Whole point was that if he's going to point out someone's mistakes then he needs to be on the up-and-up himself.