Gold sellers hitting new lows....Follow

Okay, we all know gold sellers suck so I'll skip that rant.

My problem is at least on my server, they're at an all time low. They are blatantly advertising their sites in four line spams on the channels in just about every high use zone.

Really corny RP style advertisments too. I mean REALLY corny.

Ignore them you say? I do, they change their name daily so that's no good. It's getting really annoying and it bothers me to no end that they get away with this. They should all be crushed like the blood sucking filth they are...

I know. I get the in game mail, the whispers, spam in general chat. It just doesn't end.

You can file it under verbal harrassment.

I see this too and I simply report them everytime.

It only takes 2 seconds to submit a GM ticket.

I've seen those RP messages (and I play on normal server). It's really corny. "Santa drops scrolls out of his bag and you notice one falls down on your he". The message ends there, they dont even finish it. :D

I cant believe they still exist though, there must be a whole lot of people buying gold. How pathetic.

I got three of these in Winterspring last night. I reported each to a GM- each was a level 1 character. Presumably, the put out the message, log out, delete the character, create a new character, repeat the message, log out, etc., etc., etc.

They probably have a high lvl char to summon that lvl 1. By doing so, their high lvl char don't get banned.

But really, it's Blizzard's fault. It's very easy to ban the account (not char) of the gold seller. If the gold seller has to spend $20 to get a new account, only to have it banned in 1 day, no one would do it. It's like, when you have criminals selling cracks in your shopping mall, you know the government got to be blamed.

Yeah it's gotten really bad. A few days ago I had to make 6 reports in one day from the various /tell and General chat spam. Usually after some waiting time I'd end up speaking to a GM but that particular day they just opted to send an automated message saying they were aware and working on the problem. They must have been swamped with complaints that day.

Yeah I get those through whisper, mail and general chat and what not. For crying out we even get a general message while in AV and I go O.o

i've got those general chat messages too, and when i was in gnomer i wondered who or what it was cause it isnt to easy to just drop in there at lvl 1
i clicked the name and saw that it was a lvl 1 in the human starter area.
so i guess they have a way of spamming into the entire world.. also because i couldnt ignore the player, it didnt exist anymore. and 5 min later there was a new one, also immideately deleted.
and banning the accounts wouldnt help to much i think, blizzard will have to take on the websites those people are advertising for.

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they actually make it look like it is legal and improving your game experience :(
and they dont need lvl 60's to get gold, they have a big advertisement on there site with: How to trade in your ingame gold for $$$

they only need the high lvl's for power leveling, and i think they have a lot of people with lvl 60's so if one gets deleted that person has a new one within 24 hours... and since they also sell accounts they dont care to much about 1 account getting banned...



Edited, Dec 19th 2006 5:12pm by Aethien

i got the general chat spam while i was in the Scholomance dungeon, they do something where they dont even move their characters, because i was in an instance and he wasnt in my group.

Report every single one you see. Include the server time, channel, the spammer's name, and the website that they're advertising for. If a GM can find the advertisement in the chat logs (hence why you include the time and channel), they DO ban the spammer immediately.

I have started to report every single one I see on Medivh, and I have noticed the number of ads have gone down considerably...from multiples every day to less than two or three a week.

Edit: Yes, you can join any channel from anywhere in the world.

Edited, Dec 19th 2006 11:27am by Dragonteuthis

They use some sort of hack that allows them access to the /general region channels no matter where they are. They can sit in a city and spam every general region without moving. Its creepy how often they do it too. I hate having a hack being used that commonly on a game I pay money for, ya know? I've tried reporting them, but they log after spamming all the channels. I tried emailing Blizzard explaining that hey, these people are hacking ALL the time, can't you DO anything? I just got the standard response and a link to the terms about not cheating or hacking. Yeah, sending THAT to the wrong person. They really need to fix the loophole they're using to be in general regardless of where their toon is.

*Edit: I saw a post a couple up about joining general validly. That was fixed a long time ago so it shouldn't be possible. I admit tho, I haven't tried it in a long time.

Edited, Dec 19th 2006 1:09pm by hashberry