Gold seller theory

[foreverwise1]

I believe stopping gold sellers should be simple. It can't be hard to discover bots all sending money somewhere. Ban all those. Ban all accounts that those accounts send money to.

I believe Amazon and other mmos like the gold sellers. They allow them to aquire just enough gold to make a profit then Ban the account. Then the gold sellers buy more accounts and Amazon profits.

They don't care whales are buying the gold because it makes them happy. What are your thoughts?

[Paroe]

RMT usually illegal in western countries, its not simply about ToS.
Also gold sellers buy flipped accounts, which is far less income, and consume many, many, many more resources than an actual player.

[AlP]

Originally posted by foreverwise1:

I believe Amazon and other mmos like the gold sellers. They allow them to aquire just enough gold to make a profit then Ban the account. Then the gold sellers buy more accounts and Amazon profits.

Since there are no former employees of any companies coming out and reporting anything like that, it's not true.

It's simply hard to deal with the gold sellers.

[LOL]

Plot Twist - Amazon is selling the gold

[Warspawn]

Originally posted by foreverwise1:

Then the gold sellers buy more accounts and Amazon profits.

The only problem here is that Amazon acknowledged that there were thousands of counterfeit keys out there generated somehow. Free keys for free accounts meant that the bots kept coming even if they got banned. Hopefully they've been able to track them down and delete them...

o7

~War~

[EMCM Magellan]

Originally posted by foreverwise1:

I believe stopping gold sellers should be simple. It can't be hard to discover bots all sending money somewhere. Ban all those. Ban all accounts that those accounts send money to.

I believe Amazon and other mmos like the gold sellers. They allow them to aquire just enough gold to make a profit then Ban the account. Then the gold sellers buy more accounts and Amazon profits.

They don't care whales are buying the gold because it makes them happy. What are your thoughts?

So you've just banned JoeBob that sent money to his cousin BillyBob and you've banned him too under your plan. What do you have to say to JoeBob and BillyBob now?

[JB]

Originally posted by foreverwise1:

I believe stopping gold sellers should be simple. It can't be hard to discover bots all sending money somewhere. Ban all those. Ban all accounts that those accounts send money to.

I believe Amazon and other mmos like the gold sellers. They allow them to aquire just enough gold to make a profit then Ban the account. Then the gold sellers buy more accounts and Amazon profits.

They don't care whales are buying the gold because it makes them happy. What are your thoughts?

That's why they don't come to these forums and listen to you.
It is like during the bushfires in Australia, you have the firefighters doing their very best to stop it, using strategies to contain it as best as they can, and some random pleb (you) come and say "bro, like, dude, just put water on fire, man, it will stop it, like, yeah, that's so easy dude". No ♥♥♥♥ sherlock.

[Rhythmless Ninja]

Originally posted by foreverwise1:

I believe stopping gold sellers should be simple. It can't be hard to discover bots all sending money somewhere. Ban all those. Ban all accounts that those accounts send money to.

I believe Amazon and other mmos like the gold sellers. They allow them to aquire just enough gold to make a profit then Ban the account. Then the gold sellers buy more accounts and Amazon profits.

They don't care whales are buying the gold because it makes them happy. What are your thoughts?

If it were so simple at least 1 mmo would have solved the problem. Not a single one has since their existence. Just give up on that.

[MoNoXiDe]

Originally posted by foreverwise1:

I believe stopping gold sellers should be simple. It can't be hard to discover bots all sending money somewhere. Ban all those. Ban all accounts that those accounts send money to.

I believe Amazon and other mmos like the gold sellers. They allow them to aquire just enough gold to make a profit then Ban the account. Then the gold sellers buy more accounts and Amazon profits.

They don't care whales are buying the gold because it makes them happy. What are your thoughts?

except gold sellers get fraudulent keys and go in like Kamikaze no money made by Amazon at all lol.

[Odd World]

Originally posted by LOL:

Plot Twist - Amazon is selling the gold

Big Brain time?

[Matty101]

I can't believe they don't have old school gm's that play the game.
Be so easy to right-click->ban and be done with gold sellers, same goes for the utter toxic chat sometimes(though that should be timeout not ban).

I've reported 2 afk bots, one mining one fishing but no idea if it was dealt with, if a gm was handy i could just say come look for yourself.

[Martin]

The problem is not the spammers.. but private companies who support anonymous online browsing. It is literally, because of people who demand privacy.. that noone has any.

[Lovecraft's Cat]

Personally, I just think it's incompetence, same for all the other, numerous issues with the game.

[Landron]

As long as there remains the possibility to trade Gold in-game, there will be Gold bots and Gold Sellers. They only got rid of them in Diablo III by the drastic measure of making Gold un-tradable and self pickup only.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by foreverwise1:

I believe stopping gold sellers should be simple. It can't be hard to discover bots all sending money somewhere. Ban all those. Ban all accounts that those accounts send money to.

I believe Amazon and other mmos like the gold sellers. They allow them to aquire just enough gold to make a profit then Ban the account. Then the gold sellers buy more accounts and Amazon profits.

They don't care whales are buying the gold because it makes them happy. What are your thoughts?

If it was so simple, ever game over the last 2 decades that has a player driven economy would've stopped them.

It isn't so simple when you unfortunately have an active segment of the playerbase working tirelessly to find ways to do this and other exploits. Its always a reactive situation.

With new world, there are other things too thought that make it worse, sadly.

[Styxs_NL]

at least they can only make 2 characters per region, and if we all just keep reporting them they will die out soon enough.

IMO The problem is not the sellers but the players buying the gold, if they dont buy it then the supplier wont be able to sell it.

So in the end its still the player who is the cause of this all.
Just basic supply and demand.

ps. So besides banning the seller also go ban the players who buys the gold, we rarely hear anything about that.