Please disable most chat features under level 30 and trial

[Eriane_Elis]

Spam continues to be a problem but from I hear less-so than many years back. I propose that many of the chat features to be limited while under level 30.

Why?

Simply put, when you're under level 30 you likely don't need to use shout, ever. Party chat, local chat, yes... But shout/yell doesn't seem very useful at a low level.

Level 30 seems like a good number because it takes some time to get there on a new account. Which begs the question, is it even possible to do this on a trial account? I'm not sure but mayhaps it should be disabled entirely except local/party chat.

My two gil~

[ManuelBravo]

You do know you can disable what type of chat views you can see right? -.-; take time to look it up in your system / game options. I know it's hard to do look up simple things and be over whelmed with too many words to read or laziness.

[HyoMinPark]

Spam continues to be a problem but from I hear less-so than many years back. I propose that many of the chat features to be limited while under level 30.

Why?

Simply put, when you're under level 30 you likely don't need to use shout, ever. Party chat, local chat, yes... But shout/yell doesn't seem very useful at a low level.

Level 30 seems like a good number because it takes some time to get there on a new account. Which begs the question, is it even possible to do this on a trial account? I'm not sure but mayhaps it should be disabled entirely except local/party chat.

My two gil~

Trial accounts cannot use any of the chat features (shout/tell); they cannot even form their own parties, though they can be invited.

If the spam you are seeing is RMT-related, they get away with that because those accounts are bought and paid for. You can now right-click and report RMT spam that you see in chat. I personally do not have /say or /shout in my normal chat log that I have up; it mostly has /party, /alliance, /FC, and my Linkshells in it. And /tell.

I don’t really see the need to limit the chat functions under a certain level, to be honest. If they did, all the RMT bots would have to do is bot up to the minimum level required, which doesn’t require much.

[Eriane_Elis]

take time to look it up in your system / game options. I know it's hard to do look up simple things and be over whelmed with too many words to read or laziness.

I'm very well aware that you can do this, you don't have to be rude and condescending. This "solution" is irrelevant to the problem, which is ironic considered you called me too lazy to read.

Trial accounts cannot use any of --snip --

Well my response is over 3000 characters and 1000chars is max here for some reason. Shortest reply limit next to twitter? I suggested many alternatives but my favorite is a combination between level 30 minimum for yell/shout and shadow banning with human moderation. Reporting doesn't work long-term. Sometime the simpler solutions are the most effective.

[HyoMinPark]

Well my response is over 3000 characters and 1000chars is max here for some reason. Shortest reply limit next to twitter? I suggested many alternatives but my favorite is a combination between level 30 minimum for yell/shout and shadow banning with human moderation. Reporting doesn't work long-term. Sometime the simpler solutions are the most effective.

You can edit your posts to bypass the 1,000 character limit.

Disabling features will not get rid of RMT bots. All they'll do is bot to whatever the minimum level required to use /shout or /say is, and then continue about their way; they won't lose anything by doing this since all RMT accounts are controlled by scripts, so no manpower is lost and there is very little inconvenience.

RMT is a feature that will never disappear from any game. Punishing the majority for the actions of RMT bots is not the way to go, in my opinion.

[CainCrimson]

Cant say I've ever seen the spamming problem in the 4 worlds I inhabit, unless you are directing this at the gold spammers.

Additionally I think that muting the entire player base under level 30 due to several vocal spammers and bots is overkill. I'd say hire more in game admins and tighten up what they allow before starting disciplinary actions towards a spammer, whether bot gold spammer or player

[ManuelBravo]

I'm very well aware that you can do this, you don't have to be rude and condescending. This "solution" is irrelevant to the problem, which is ironic considered you called me too lazy to read.

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Well maybe some people love reading various chat hence the option to filter, thefor if people don't do it it can only b e express as lazyness to continuously go back and forth changing the settings -.-; /em playing the worlds smallest violin

[Niwashi]

Trial accounts are already blocked from most chat (as well as a lot of other features of the game).

And disabling new players only hurts new players and therefore the game itself. It makes no difference to RMT bots what level they need to be. They're scripted to auto-level to wherever they need to be. It would literally be just a matter of copying a piece of the gathering bots' script and pasting it into the spam bots' script. Then the spam bots are all level 30, and the only below-level-30 characters being impacted by the rule are genuine new players, i.e. the worst possible place to be putting chat restrictions.

We've already got the feature to get rid of spam bots. Report and block them whenever you see one.

[Xyline]

Don't make newer players feel singled out. I've used the shout command a few times walking around and it's proved to be useful to an extent.

[Makeda]

If the spam you are seeing is RMT-related, they get away with that because those accounts are bought and paid for. You can now right-click and report RMT spam that you see in chat. I personally do not have /say or /shout in my normal chat log that I have up; it mostly has /party, /alliance, /FC, and my Linkshells in it. And /tell.

They're mostly hacked accounts but yeah - same basic result.

RMT sellers buy passwords from things like hackers that have hacked third party gamer forums, they then use bot-login attempts to see which of these are matches to actual game accounts... and then they sit on them... for months at a time, and activate as needed when others get reported.

If you think no one would be stupid enough to use the same username and password on a random gamer forum as they do for their game account... I get this info from what happened in the Guild Wars 2 launch. A few days into launch they banned... 15,000 (or 30,000 - I forget, it was 2013 and my memory on this part is fuzzy) accounts.
- They then published an article on what happened. The number one fan-run fan forum website before launch had been hacked months earlier - it's entire database stolen. Being a non-commercial entity kept up by reputation, it kept silent. GW2 noticed on launch that a massive number of people that had been active in beta were suddenly being reported as bots... so they went and reached out to the fan websites until the one fessed up...

(This is why in GW2, about 3 months after launch, everyone was required to change their password, and locked from use was any password anyone had ever used before - and if you ever change your password there, you cannot use one that is anywhere in their database).

RMT sellers... they're mostly using the accounts of your lazier friends...

They don't buy individual accounts at retail price... they have hackers that can deliver them accounts in the tens of thousands. I would wager at least one person who reads this comment is already hacked... hopefully it's not me... Though I use a security token to help guard against that possibility...


But my points backs up your main point: blocking / muting new players won't do any good against this...

And just because somebody is under level 30 doesn't meant they're new... Some folks have alts...