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Shame On You Cryptic/PWE

elthium61elthium61 Member Posts: 2 Arc User
edited May 2013 in General Discussion (PC)
I created a Google account/email address specifically for this game and I've used it for no other purpose than to play Neverwinter.

Since then I'm receiving a constant barrage of spam that thankfully Google picks up. Thanks for selling my details to a third party marketing company and I'm sure glad that I never got around to waste my hard earned cash in your zen store.

Buyer beware fellas,

Cheers.
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  • kimmurieloblodrakimmurieloblodra Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Then you shouldn't have signed up for all those free zen/peanut labs offers.

    I used an email I use fairly often for gaming, have received absolutely none (ZERO) spam messages since I've been signed up. Pretty sure you are just mad about something else and trying to act out any way you can.
  • pinkfontpinkfont Member Posts: 563 Bounty Hunter
    edited May 2013
    kimmurieloblodra wrote: »
    Then you shouldn't have signed up for all those free zen/peanut labs offers.

    You mean the ones PW actively endorse?
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  • kimmurieloblodrakimmurieloblodra Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    pinkfont wrote: »
    You mean the ones PW actively endorse?

    They just have them there so people can't say it's p2w. You can sit there for hours doing surveys and have the same stuff someone who pumps 5$ of zen into his account can have in 2 minutes. Either way its garbage for your computer and people who are semi-aware of internet security wouldn't do them.

    I'm just telling the OP: Cryptic isn't farming e-mail addresses to sell them to third parties. He can take his tinfoil hat off, anytime.
  • elthium61elthium61 Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    As a clarification I have signed up for nothing...
  • imivoimivo Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 1,682 Bounty Hunter
    edited May 2013
    If you make a new Gmail account and use it for nothing at all, you get the spam as well. I tested this some time ago when I had a similar concern about a different company. I was amazed how much spam I got on a completely unused address.
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  • mutharexmutharex Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Yes, Google is the main culprit, don't forget: you are not the user, you are the product
  • kimmurieloblodrakimmurieloblodra Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    elthium61 wrote: »
    As a clarification I have signed up for nothing...

    Yeah, you are right. Perfect World, without counting their subsidaries, has a net worth of over 600 million$, with just under 5000 employees, but yeah, they need to harvest e-mails and sell them to make money.

    You are right, the game is just a scam, they just want your email addresses! You have it all figured out elthium61, glad you saved me the hassle of trying out this awesome game!

    Shame on you, cryptic!
  • mutharexmutharex Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    kimmurieloblodra wrote: »
    Yeah, you are right. Perfect World, without counting their subsidaries, has a net worth of over 600 million$, with just under 5000 employees, but yeah, they need to harvest e-mails and sell them to make money.

    You are right, the game is just a scam, they just want your email addresses! You have it all figured out elthium61, glad you saved me the hassle of trying out this awesome game!

    Shame on you, cryptic!

    Leave the kid alone, he forgot his Ritalin this morning, there is no need to treat him like a <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>.....
  • kimmurieloblodrakimmurieloblodra Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    mutharex wrote: »
    Leave the kid alone, he forgot his Ritalin this morning, there is no need to treat him like a <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>.....

    Would love to, but for every one PWE hater I try to put in his place for their baseless hatespeech, another 5 pop up. It's a never-ending battle.
  • fondlezfondlez Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    This only applies to Google accounts.

    I have both Google and Hotmail gaming accounts for PWE. With Hotmail, I have received zero spam or Junk. So, either Hotmail pre-filters the alleged "PWE spam" even before it gets to Junk or, far more likely, it is not PWE using your new email address for spam.

    Google is an ad-company, probably the world's largest...
  • rhoricrhoric Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I have 3 accounts here. 2 of which are gmail accounts. I hardly see any spam and the spam I see has nothing to do with PWE
  • rangurenranguren Member Posts: 4
    edited May 2013
    kimmurieloblodra wrote: »
    Then you shouldn't have signed up for all those free zen/peanut labs offers.

    I used an email I use fairly often for gaming, have received absolutely none (ZERO) spam messages since I've been signed up. Pretty sure you are just mad about something else and trying to act out any way you can.

    agreed, not even a single spam came into my email :D
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