Can the devs do something about the gold advertisers in chat who spam all day.

[MoppyMo]

Would be nice if i didnt have to keep adding and adding bots to the block list but i see more gold for sale messages then actual people chatting its crazy man

[Tulkas]

It would be nice if people didn't buy these advertisers' gold, but that's asking too much of common sense.

So they continue with the ads because they work.

[tankanidis]

right click block is all we can do for now

They are trying their best by limiting ways of RMT moving in game and to reduce ways to powerlevel characters / stop family sharing (the aim is to stop these farm of botters from being able to raise lots of characters quickly and farm gold all day)

I would like it if we had a chat option to block all messages from people with new accounts / characters under a certain level which would filter out the gold spammers who start new characters who advertise on

The downside is this would suck for a brand new player who would be talking into a void not realising why no-one is responding to their questions about the game

*shrug*

[MaxxGold]

Oh, but wait. Turning off family sharing was supposed to stop this. 😂

[Dilligaf]

Originally posted by MaxxGold:

Oh, but wait. Turning off family sharing was supposed to stop this. 😂

well they still have to find and ban them. It was not a magic bullet. it was ment to limit how they could get new accounts.

[PXR5]

Originally posted by Dilligaf:

Originally posted by MaxxGold:

Oh, but wait. Turning off family sharing was supposed to stop this. 😂

well they still have to find and ban them. It was not a magic bullet. it was ment to limit how they could get new accounts.

An easier way to report them would be good. Same as blocking but ad report.

[tankanidis]

Originally posted by PXR5:

Originally posted by Dilligaf:

well they still have to find and ban them. It was not a magic bullet. it was ment to limit how they could get new accounts.

An easier way to report them would be good. Same as blocking but ad report.

+1

atm we can only block without any report attached to it

[Kmany]

Well the gold price has gone from 5usd to 99cents in just a few days.. so maybe soon they will realize that this is not a game where there is any point to sell gold..

Sure they are a bit annoying.. but whatever.. not really a big deal..

[tankanidis]

Originally posted by Kmany:

Well the gold price has gone from 5usd to 99cents in just a few days.. so maybe soon they will realize that this is not a game where there is any point to sell gold..

Sure they are a bit annoying.. but whatever.. not really a big deal..

they still exist in Lost Ark and there's like 4 people left who play that game (they just server merged 40'ish servers down to like 5?)

It's 'free' money for them once they are established, they won't stop unless they are banned and crushed or until people stop buying, in a time when the economy is bad, a few dollars per x is still a good income depending on how that translates to your currency exchange because the people who justify buying from them don't just buy 1 dollar worth

Also reminder to anyone silly enough to get 'boosted' by these sites... 3 months after you give them your details you WILL get hacked and lose everything you have

It was their common scamming tactic back on World of Warcraft, we used to have military vets in the guild who didn't have 'time' but had lots of 'money' so they would pay for boosting and 3 months to the day after it happened their accounts all got hacked and they lost everything

[Tegridy Farms]

Originally posted by Kmany:

Well the gold price has gone from 5usd to 99cents in just a few days.. so maybe soon they will realize that this is not a game where there is any point to sell gold..

Sure they are a bit annoying.. but whatever.. not really a big deal..

The price dropping that much could actually be a bad sign. I havn't played enough of this game yet to know how much gold you actually need but if the price that RMTers are asking for it is going down that means 1 of 2 things. Either they are figuring out gold is not very valuable which is good or the market is already getting oversaturated with so much gold that has been generated by botting that the price has already been driven that low which would be really really bad.

That would mean botters have hit a critical mass so that they are probably going to be profitable even if you ban some of their accounts and they will just buy more to keep their business going. If we are in scenario 2 banning some of the gold sellers and removing their gold from the economy but missing others could actually drive the value of gold back up for the gold sellers who get missed.

[Partyrock]

Hopefully they vet volunteers from the community that can mute them globally when they pop up.

[Tegridy Farms]

Originally posted by tankanidis:

Originally posted by Kmany:

Well the gold price has gone from 5usd to 99cents in just a few days.. so maybe soon they will realize that this is not a game where there is any point to sell gold..

Sure they are a bit annoying.. but whatever.. not really a big deal..

Also reminder to anyone silly enough to get 'boosted' by these sites... 3 months after you give them your details you WILL get hacked and lose everything you have

It was their common scamming tactic back on World of Warcraft, we used to have military vets in the guild who didn't have 'time' but had lots of 'money' so they would pay for boosting and 3 months to the day after it happened their accounts all got hacked and they lost everything

I mean for WoW they gave you all the tools you needed to circumvent that threat (probably on purpose). You see if you wanted to get level boosted relatively safely in WoW you give the site all your info let them do the work pay them yadi yada then attach an Authenticator and change all your login credentials; then you would be relatively safe.

[OmegaVR]

Originally posted by Kmany:

Well the gold price has gone from 5usd to 99cents in just a few days.. so maybe soon they will realize that this is not a game where there is any point to sell gold..

Sure they are a bit annoying.. but whatever.. not really a big deal..

I had many of them today promoting rushing people to a certain level, i mean sure the gold will drop but that wont stop them from promoting other services they offer.

[Dubz]

Originally posted by MaxxGold:

Oh, but wait. Turning off family sharing was supposed to stop this. 😂

its just an excuse for devs to sell beta players in launch price instead of beta price. Triple the money Ka ching Ka ching!

[Kmany]

Originally posted by Funland-Guy:

Originally posted by Kmany:

Well the gold price has gone from 5usd to 99cents in just a few days.. so maybe soon they will realize that this is not a game where there is any point to sell gold..

Sure they are a bit annoying.. but whatever.. not really a big deal..

I had many of them today promoting rushing people to a certain level, i mean sure the gold will drop but that wont stop them from promoting other services they offer.

rushing in LE lol.. I made a character 2 days ago at 6pm and i am level 78.. and i have been at work today.
One character i leveled from 1-70 in one day..
Why would anyone pay them to boost your leveling lol.