Spammers/Gil Sellers

[Metalplosion]

Every time I go into a major city I'm hit with a WALL of text. I'm can't speak for everyone but for me this it totally ruining my MMO experience. If I wanted to play a game by myself and not chat with others I have a lot more options I play an MMO because I like interacting with other people. and before someone tells me how to black list I know how to do so in fact I have over 30 spammers on there so far.

[NZ_Player]

Every time I go into a major city I'm hit with a WALL of text. I'm can't speak for everyone but for me this it totally ruining my MMO experience. If I wanted to play a game by myself and not chat with others I have a lot more options I play an MMO because I like interacting with other people. and before someone tells me how to black list I know how to do so in fact I have over 30 spammers on there so far.

my sentiments exactly


the handling of this RMT issue is incredibly bad, they are acting like its their first rodeo
the development team needs an award, the marketing and community teams need to be fired

[carlos777uk]

Or how about this novel approach - SE employ some GM's?!?!?!?!?!

Really, how tight are their budgets that they can't afford a dozen people to trawl two or three worlds each over the course of an evening and just ban every account they see spamming gold selling.

It beggars belief that this wasn't implemented from the off.

[Gintenshikun]

I'm not a big fan of getting hit with a wall of spam when I walk into a city, or getting beeped every five minutes by someone sending me a private message to buy their gils. The biggest trouble is trying to grab a name when there are 5 sellers in one place and blisting them one by one by copy/past. A spam/blist option would be lovely. To avoid accidentally getting someone that's just a pain in the general behind like area, there could at least be a little pop up saying [Is this a Spammer or General D-Bag?]... or [Do you believe this person violating SE Policy Y/N]... I guess the second one would be more professional.

[NZ_Player]

The sellers and botters will soon give up if a live GM banned 20 accounts in the space of an hour.

no they will never give up, ever

these are starter towns, its the first experience people have with the game in its MMO state.
a very bad first impression to say the least.

the game itself is being judged and until they get off their arses and actively engage in countering this problem LIVE then its going to leave a long lasting detrimental effect

[Mykll]

What game was it that allowed you to not block that character, but block that character's entire account? That would help.

[Kelryth]

No idea what that game was but It sounds like an awesome idea.

[Alidar_Jarok]

The creators of this game need to make a call to the nice people at CCP in Iceland that develop EVE-Online, a while back they installed a type of Sniffer program that seeks out Spammers and in-game item & Currency transactions and automatically send the gathered information to a team dedicated to enforcing the TOS Agreement

[Hansem]

The game hasn't been out very long and they are already invading our game. We as players need better tools to help combat this growing threat.

Reporting these gil sellers manually through the Support Desk is a drawn out affair and is very annoying.

I propose to square that a system needs to be put in place that would easily allow us to report these dastardly creatures. This most awesome of features would include:

1. Add an option to the chat name click menu to report as a spammer/gil seller.
2. Automatically add reported gil seller to your /blist.
3. Remove Gil sellers text from the chat window.
4. Automatically ban a character and/or their account from even using the chat system if a certain amount of players have reported them for spamming until SE can investigate them.

This issue is going to get a lot bigger in the coming months and we need the right tools to fight back.

Good ideas all around, but your number 4 is dangerous, because if 5 or 6 people report someone just to grief them, it will ban the victim from using his chat system until the SE investigation...

[Kelryth]

Good ideas all around, but your number 4 is dangerous, because if 5 or 6 people report someone just to grief them, it will ban the victim from using his chat system until the SE investigation...

That is a good point but I was thinking more along the lines of 50-100 people.