Gold Sellers

[Dererk]

Want a easy solution? Button "Report gold seller", which will report account and last text message. If some account acquired multiple reports in short amount of time and reported text messages is the same - ban this account.

Ya just see how long till this gets abused by trolls and jerks 10 Gil says it doesn't even take 5 minutes till it happens.

[DylfinSecond]

Ya just see how long till this gets abused by trolls and jerks 10 Gil says it doesn't even take 5 minutes till it happens.

All spam I see was in private message. So allow to report only private message. This can be abused only in case when someone sends tell to many players. And I can't sure that this scenario match "abused".

[IsaacDamodred]

It is not our job to report gil sellers. That is what we pay SE for. That is a basic statement that all rational not rmt-supporting players should all agree to. Scripts can be put in place to recognize abnormal player to player communications, when these scripts detect the abnormalities they should then do keyword searches on the content of the sent communication. If these tells are being sent repeatedly by lvl 1 characters without a response, ban them from tell. If they are a true player, warn them for spamming, give them back their tell permissions after doing something in the game rather than constantly talking in tell. The chat system SE has is entirely not private and they have access to every message. If they see any "WWW G O L D, Hello, my friend" or any abnormal chats that are likely RMT spam, send that spam bot simple telling them that they have 5 minutes to vacate the inn room they are hiding in and prove that they are actually a player. The only people that might possible get banned on accident are your freakish Mor Dhona creepers, the ones that stay there for ever and gossip all day, but you can ban them too, totally annoying tools.

[IsaacDamodred]

Oh and I get 4 tells every 5 mins, like clock work, all 4 at once, 2 of the tells from the same twats SE refuses to take action against. Banning them occasionally does nothing, screw with their system. Delete all the unbacked gil floating around. Any member that receives gil from a RMT trader should lose that gil and be permanently banned from any SE online game in the future. Harsh punishments are needed, not a slap on the wrist and a deleted account. All they do is right up another char named gdsjdsgadsgsdg dodoodsep. These names are also dead give aways, delete any character with them. If you want to play a MMORPG, you need to play the ROLEPLAYING PART OF THE GAME AS WELL. If your name is not RPG worthy, aka random letter inputs, ban, and ban again when someone tries to do it again.

If you happen to be one of those, "I don't care about the roleplay, I just wanna skip every cutscene and name my character character something that is seen as incredible uncreative and lazy like, Dr. Doomsauce, Clouyd Strife, Savior Butts, or Butt Face," well I hate you and the negative input you give this game. If you could care less about the RP part of MMORPG, get the hell out and stay out. If you get tagged as a bot because your name is so far out their and ridiculous, well, it's your fault. How hard is it to really think of a char name that has a genuinely creative first name and last name?

There need to be character name filters, nothing vulgar, nothing that includes the name of a body party, food item, or the input of random qwerty inputs.

[Avenger]

This has got to be one of the longest-lived threads in the forum system, having started shortly after launch!!

The really sad thing is that, 17 months later, the most (only?) noticeable improvement (?) to this situation is that RMT spam is now sent via /tell rather than /shout and /yell.

p.s. People tell me that spam was a problem in the beta also... and in 1.0....

[IsaacDamodred]

Japan Looks Into Gold Farming

The following comes from the above link to an article that was published in July 18, 2006.

Last month Square Enix banned 250 accounts for using third-party software to collect massive amounts of gil, the game's currency. The publisher removed 250 billion gil from the game's economy, warning that real money trading...

"will not be tolerated"

...in the game. Earlier this month, Electronic Arts removed 15 trillion gold from the Ultima Online economy and banned more than 180 accounts for taking advantage of an exploit in the game.

SE is a be dishonest about it's policies. The RMT only gets worse and yet

RMT...

"will not be tolerated"

Is SE reporting any of this RMT income and sales to any of their players respective tax bureaus?

How come SE isn't filing lawsuits against these RMT companies like Blizzard did? http://virtuallyblind.com/2008/02/01...rd-injunction/

What corporation allows a clandestine industry to interfere in their business WITHOUT go after them legally? None, that's the answer. Most corporate powers are more than happy to assembly an army of lawyers but you don't see SE doing this.

I am not from Japan, I do not understand the Japanese culture but that does not matter. SE is an international corporation therefor needs to conduct business with ALL cultures in mind and that MEANS STANDING FOR YOUR CUSTOMER BASE.

[moudoka]

Good luck, I fill my freaking blacklist in less than a week. The bots aren't going away, they're multiplying and expanding. I've said to look at the marketboards, and you see the same seller with 20,000 shards up for sale...every few days. Yeah, sure, I bet those are all legitimately earned *eyeroll* You report them, get a generic "We'll look into that" crap, and nothing is done. I have to go to "busy" mode, miss every tell from my FC, friends, etc, because SE refuses to deal with the bots. So, does this mean I get a discount on my subscription, since I'm unable to use all the features due to extreme amounts of laziness on SE's part?

[Fallke]

This issue has definitely been getting worse lately on Midgardsormr. I am not going through my blacklist and reporting 200 individual player names.

Give us a bigger blacklist!

[DylfinSecond]

Give us a bigger blacklist!

Dude, blacklist doesn't solve this problem. All spammers recreate characters with new names constantly. You can clear it without any doubts and fill anew. It only works for short time before spammer change a character and allow to block a few messages from first one blocked.

[Zebyxus]

We need a specialised reporting system that doesn't take half an hour to complete, a simple menu command that pre-fills a report sent in would speed up the process of getting Gil Spammers punished as they should be.