Gold Sellers

[Demonchld]

I have this issue to both on NA and JP Servers its a daily thing non stop. Its a bot just sending all these players gold spam and it needs to stop problem I think is all these bots do is delete and make new toons so it makes it hard to track for squareenix maybe...

What they need to have is a system that will flag an account that gets so many reports a day and auto bans them. The only way it will stop is if lazy people stop buying gil its as simple as that. Yes I know u want that bad ass house or u have no time for the game but honestly thats not my problem an MMO is a time consuming game deal with it or move on. Stop giving all ur money to these damn Chinese who just hack account and sell gil for a profit

[Fumamyena]

Ok, yes GS suck and yes, all the SPAM is a bit ridiculous. I see a lot of comments about other MMO's such as WoW and how it was handled by Blizzard. RMT still exists on all of those games too. Remember WoW has been out for almost a decade now so when it was first released the shear number of Gil Sellers did not exist. The right-click to black list is going to be a great feature but what most people in this thread are suggesting is just not feasible. In all honesty, the problem isn't so much the people selling the Gil or the PL services, its all the people that use those services that have caused us the problem we face today. If there wasn't a substantial profit from buying in game currency these companies wouldn't exist. Be mad at all the players that are purchasing this money, but we live in a time of instant gratification so people are inevitably lazy.

[Cor_Dirge]

seriously SE, fuck the gold sellers for now and fix more important issues like the fact that 2.1 constantly crashes ps3's and you haven't even considered fixing it yet.

[GuardianX]

Okay I have ran out of blacklist spots. 200\200 and I can't blacklist theses ppl anymore. SE at least make more room to blacklist people.

[Lordfurious]

Also my ignore list is filling up fast with a 200 limit. I ignore all spammers immediately I believe I am up to 100 ignores. Please fix this madness asap or i will have to tell my friends this game is the same as WoW in that regards. It is impossible to hold a conversation when 3 pages of gold selling tells shows up.

[Amiarah]

I´ve had ppl blacklisted for weeks as bots and goldsellers. At first I blacklisted and reported as a good player. But seeing as se don´t care about it I´ve now stopped.
And yes. It is a real threat to normal, honest paying customers.. I´m just playing this game atm, cause I enjoy it and have nothing else I want to play. But as soon as my fav game is up, I´ll leave and probably never come back. A LOT cause of RMTs not being dealt with. It hurts the economy, and the general gameplay for us honest weirdo´s playing the game. As a crafter it really messes up the way of making gil. The get the prices down with their stupid botting. And I´ve even seen ppl from FC´s botting and reported. They are still ingame. If they wont care about me, guess what? I´m not paying for their game.

[Djose]

It doesn't seem like SE is making an honest effort here to solve the problem, they just cover it up with their "oh we banned xxx accounts this month for RMT/botting" instead of executing action against these RMT sites, as well as in-game preventative measures to prevent spamming/botting.

I have already cleared my blacklist once, about 2 or 3 weeks ago, and it's already coming up on 50 names. Prior to that purge, the only outside player contact I would have (aside from party members or FC members) is the brief windows when I would un-busy to do a meld or take a party invite. No tells, no /shout, no /yell, no /say, absolutely NO outside contact.

It settled down for a little while, but it seems like the RMT/botting problem... make that INFESTATION... is coming back again, even though now we see that it's primarily the same 3 maybe 4 sources (eusgame, pvpbank, game4top, and the chinese-named or silly-named mining bots).

[gadzi_h]

Out of my 69 blacklisted RMT's only 8 have been deleted so far so I think the response time is very slow. So that is a rate of just over one a month for an average of 13 reports a month, less than 10% ban rate. So really this is not a high priority issue for them. I would be interested in knowing if the rate is any better on other servers.

[bohsnake]

any game the has a gil/gold or anything for that rate that takes time to accumulate is ganna have people looking to score on it

in truth you can't really do much of anything about them because they will never be the same one twice always different characters
black list them all day long you will get a big black list and their still making char these people have nothing to do but scam and con having every game they can make a buck off of

[Lainmyst]

Actually I know of two MMOs that have 0 gold spammers or bots. One is Tera which is a Korean game (famous for rmt issues) and The Secret World. Tera blocks anyone from posting in chat or in messages or in shout any thing with an email or web address. There are ways around it but for some reason and what ever else they did there are no gold spammers and no bots anywhere. For The Secret World, the way they designed the game made gold spammers and bots a non issue. Not sure how they did it but I have never seen a one in that game.