Gold Sellers

[MrKyo]

I don't think SE owns the internet..

You're not wrong, but if SE somehow labels RMT as a threat toward their business or something. (Just woke up, can't find words please send help.)

[moudoka]

I don't think SE owns the internet..

You don't have to own the internet to force a site to shut down for exploiting and illegally profiting off your IP. Which brings me, once again, to the point, either SE simply refuses to do anything about it, or they are in bed with WTSGG. The amount of spam I get from those bots is insane.

[KisaiTenshi]

You don't have to own the internet to force a site to shut down for exploiting and illegally profiting off your IP. Which brings me, once again, to the point, either SE simply refuses to do anything about it, or they are in bed with WTSGG. The amount of spam I get from those bots is insane.

When you see the ads on Youtube, third-party sites, and basically any gaming-replated site, click the > and go "I wish to report a problem with this ad" and just outright report the ad as fraud.

The websites I operate, every week or so I do a search for "gold" "game" "gil" "wow" "ffxi" "ffxiv" "archeage", etc in the ad networks to catch trash like this. It can be hard to proactively block these, but they are always from Chinese companies, or non-US companies, which is why the trash ads tend to show up more frequently for people who don't live in the US.

And they are ALL fraud.

If you are on the legacy servers, the average amount of RMT spam is like hours apart except during the window that new characters can be created.

Also keep in mind that if you see RMT/gil farming bots, report them with the reporting system in the game. Bots typically:
- Stack on each other
- All wear the same gear, and appear in the same general location, often well below the level that players would actually wear.
- Rank only only the minimum needed (nearly always the minimum for Black Mage)
- Follow the exact same path in a pattern (typical of Mining/Botany)
- Stand on top of map-specific nodes (chests, mining, harvesting)

[DizzyAtari]

the problem im having with the reporting of bots is that i have reported 5 different groups of them in the last month alone, but i still see more and more. and while i know that SE cant send me any messages telling me what happened to the case, it would just be nice to at the very least get a reply every now and then saying something like "Hey we hear ya and see them, we are working on it. thanks for the info." would something like that be so hard? just a little acknowledgement.

[QT_Melon]

Also keep in mind that if you see RMT/gil farming bots, report them with the reporting system in the game. Bots typically:
- Stack on each other
- All wear the same gear, and appear in the same general location, often well below the level that players would actually wear.
- Rank only only the minimum needed (nearly always the minimum for Black Mage)
- Follow the exact same path in a pattern (typical of Mining/Botany)
- Stand on top of map-specific nodes (chests, mining, harvesting)

I dunno about the last 2 though, If I feel like going in a pattern or standing there I don't need someone reporting me for botting, cuz people with less experience follow that advice not really investigating it.

Also the problem is reporting in the first place. It's hard to report names that looked like someone facerolled on their keyboard. They want us to help but they need to help us in making it more efficient to report in the first place. This especially goes for console users.

[moudoka]

All run by the same hacksite I'm sure, that SE does nothing about whatsoever.

[Reikon]

Here is a great example of the same and the spam we get on this server. Faerie. Making this game less fun to play and bringing my subscription into question.

[Buff_Archer]

I'm getting a CONSTANT stream of spam via tells, I can't even carry on a normal conversation with friends without the messages being interspersed with spam messages from multiple senders. This is unacceptable and has to stop!!! Now my friends and I have to go on busy so we don't get spam and that limits our options with conversing with each other. The only other place I've received so much spam is older email addresses long since abandoned for that very reason.

The best thing I can think of to equate this experience to at this point, is if you and a bunch of friends were to make reservations at a nice restaurant, spending more money than you would pay at a typical restaurant so you could have a stable. hassle-free environment to enjoy each other's company, and as you're trying to converse and eat dinner, a steady stream of people walk in, get up on the table and kneel right in front of each of you, and fart directly into your face. A couple minutes after they leave, someone else comes in and takes their place. And then when you complain to the management about all these people who keep facefarting you, thinking- 'Surely they'll put an end to this right now!'- they tell you to just pinch your nose, hold your breath, and ignore it.

[Faelandaea]

I'm getting a CONSTANT stream of spam via tells, I can't even carry on a normal conversation with friends without the messages being interspersed with spam messages from multiple senders. This is unacceptable and has to stop!!! Now my friends and I have to go on busy so we don't get spam and that limits our options with conversing with each other. The only other place I've received so much spam is older email addresses long since abandoned for that very reason.

I did find a workaround. Same - going busy - and now my friends chat with me via a linkshell I created just for us. Actually the cool part is even when I queue into DF i can still continue talking to them.

Is it right that we have to rely on this to avoid spam? No. But until a solution is found, this has been working for me and I hope it gives ideas to you guys as well.

[Lucke]

That Free Week Campaign is coming, and that's great. Let's have potential new players and subs get constant /tells from these people. Yeah, that's a good way to get new customers SE. Constantly reporting via some antiquated system is getting tedious. I don't even want to report these guys any more because it's such a waste of time, and takes waaaaay too much time.