Gold Sellers

[Snoopkimble]

To be honest SE seams to no care about its members, If they did they would at least ban some of these RTM Here is a few things they could do

1.) If more than 50 people blacklist someone, it should auto ban there tells,yells,shouts, for 5 hours or se investigates that person.
2.) make it so any alt lvl 10 and below can only send 1 shout,tell,yell, ect ect every 5 seconds
3.) Have a button that will make you anonymous, so these RTM's can not tell you thru the search feature.
4.) Have more than 200 block list mine is full has been for weeks and I report every RTM so I know SE is not doing a dam thing about them.

Below is extreme ways to get ride of RTM's

1.) SE to sell gold. I hate the fact but it would drive them out of business.
2.) If you black list a person it auto black lists every alt on that account.
3.) Have a feature that that will auto blacklist someone that sends more than 5 messages via shout,yell,tell, in 4 seconds
4.) Hire more GM's that will do nothing but ban rtm's and botters.
5.) Have a players council, that has the ability to do the following.
a. block RTM's from sending tell's, yell's, shouts, ect ect.
I would not go beyond that, some people get power hungry and to keep them from overreaching there power
limit it to that, If they ban someone for any other cause they loose there Mini-GM powers.
6.) Last but not least I would be willing to pay an extra $1.00 a month to be able to hire more GM's to combat the RTM's
These message day after day are really getting on my last never. What really upsets me the most is when you report someone
u get the same dam message from SE. I am sad to say but the SE staff is doing a crappy JOB on this subject.

[Simbuul]

It's really frustrating thing even on phoenix server (EU).

They also whisper and when i tried to block 'em all..a message appeared (character could not be find) or something like that...




To the staff..

We pay fee to play this game...Please don't let em wasting this awesome game like every MMORPG these days..

[RealSurprise]

It's really frustrating thing even on phoenix server (EU).

They also whisper and when i tried to block 'em all..a message appeared (character could not be find) or something like that...




To the staff..

We pay fee to play this game...Please don't let em wasting this awesome game like every MMORPG these days..

I was told today that this is not a real Tech Forum, just a place for people to rant issues, and share with others problems that can't be solved by SE.

[ArkhamNative]

Most of those gil sellers on your blacklist were probably banned within hours of being reported. "(Deleted)" means the character was deleted, probably by the owner of the account.

[Black91CRX]

It's been really bad lately!

[gadzi_h]

I use to report every one. Now I just black list. I just don't see the point any more. I have to stop playing cut, paste, send an email, when this could easily be done automatically. If there was one feature that I wish they added it would auto report.

[Ravenspire]

Yeah, I think it is getting worse. 100% agree that there should be a right click report.

As far as the limited number of characters one can Ban, I understand there are performance reasons why there are limits on filtering. So the best thing to do is give us a fast way to report the problem.

[moudoka]

What I fail to grasp, is why they can't shut down the sites. Obviously they are violating the TOS, and EULA with Square Enix, by using bots, and farming gil, only to be resold in microtransactions, which, to my knowledge, should be illegal if they do not have SE's permission to do so. So, crashing the sites and suing the people running them, in theory, should be the way to go. Not to mention completely banning the IPs they are logging in from. Yet, the bots continue to spam, spam spam, with little to no letup. Strange no?

[Shirai]

What I fail to grasp, is why they can't shut down the sites. Obviously they are violating the TOS, and EULA with Square Enix, by using bots, and farming gil, only to be resold in microtransactions, which, to my knowledge, should be illegal if they do not have SE's permission to do so. So, crashing the sites and suing the people running them, in theory, should be the way to go. Not to mention completely banning the IPs they are logging in from. Yet, the bots continue to spam, spam spam, with little to no letup. Strange no?

The thing is, most of those sites are hosted in countries where SE nor its daughter companies have any kind of legal power.
Aside from that, even if SE is succesful in shutting down a site the site owners will simply move to a different host and set up shop again.

[pdillard]

Several ways square could handle this, the current way is banning accounts/characters. In all honesty that kind of works but as we have all seen the seller just deletes that account and creates another one at very little cost, a month in the game is what 12.99 for entry or 14.99 for standard for the first month. Also was hearing about a special on steam for a while something like $5 for a 30 day subscription. Either way it really isn't costing the gil sellers any major income to delete and create another account or character. Especially if the banning seems to only happen once a month. So for 14.99 they can create a character on 40 worlds. From this stand point square is loosing the battle. Even if they ban 1000 accounts a month that isn't deterring the gil sellers from creating another account.

A few other methods would be to reduce the number of worlds that you can create characters on to say 3. I mean honestly how many real players need 40 characters on 40 different worlds? Most really players have at most 3 to 5 characters max, usually or 3 on a world. So you could say 3 characters max per world rather then 8, and say 5 separate worlds max. So for a total max of say 15 characters. Being that when you ban an account you ban all characters associated to that account. It isn't profitable to have multiple characters on the same server for the gil seller. Its more productive from an advertisement stand point to have multiple accounts on multiple worlds. By limiting the number of worlds an account could have. It will limit the number of gil sellers because it would be more of an investment on their part. Also it would generate more revenue for Square.

Another method that could be changed to the banning process. Would be rather then ban accounts, ban activation keys. So not only would the gil seller have to invest in the 14.99 per account per month. They would have to invest 29.99 for another activation code. This may impact number of codes for players but I believe that the 3.8797312*10^27 codes that are potentially available with the current registration code system yes thats 3,879,731,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 registration codes that could be potentially available at one time. The banning of registration codes shouldn't have an impact on player sales. Not to mention at $29.99 USD thats roughly around $1.16353138688*10^29 so big time potential money maker for Square.

Only other way to remove gil sellers is so some how set up the coding to prevent 3rd party bots but then again that has been a fight since the beginning of online gaming.