Quote Originally Posted by Walnootje View Post
How many mmorpg have you played?

Goldsellers will always be there in mmorpg it is not that easy to stop them as you think. And most gold sellers use stolen credit card info's and accounts like it will hurt them if they got banned. You ban 1 goldseller and 10 are ready to go.

WoW still has alot of Goldsellers, pretty much any mmorpg has goldsellers. The only way to stop them is for folks to stop buying gold from them. If goldsellers can't make any profits out of it they will stop seeing it is pointless to keep going when they can't make any money out of it.

Before you blame it on the company blame it on all the gold buyers instead.
False to some degree. Even WoW has systems in place to reduce spam that are not here that would help immensely, how about restricting /t, /shout/, & /yell on new characters. How about a smart blacklist that automatically deletes the (deleted) characters? I hate having to clean up the Blacklist one by one to make space for more all the time. The point is, they don't do enough. Not nearly enough. Saying 'Don't buy gold' is not going to do anything either. You think telling people not to do drugs is stopping anyone? Wishful thinking and is quite frankly lazy talk.

The creators are to blame, they haven't figured out or haven't really cared to try to fix the underlying issue. CCP did a great job in getting rid of Gold Sellers/Spammers in Eve Online. They haven't got rid of botting, but are extremely active on reports. The way Eve Online has done it may not sit well with most at first glance. CCP has opened up the pay to win scheme and lets players spend real money to convert to game money. They way it was handled so well is how they tied the in-game item that is purchased with real money and made it completely free market traded. Not only that, but the item (before converting to in-game currency) has a sink, where one could use the item to sub an account for 30 days. During my time there I'd spend tons of in-game gold for futures purchasing of the item for profit, though sometimes I lost.

The system is a complicated one, and requires thorough planning and balancing along the way until it works right given the game economy. Eve Online is a very different game that focuses on PvP and destruction; that being said the whole game is a gold sink, so the money you spend for in-game currency doesn't get you far and thus doesn't seem so much of a pay to win scenario.