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First City over run with gold spammers
monkeybone13
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I'm getting tired of this. I have some KDF characters stationed in first city and when going through them to do the Crystalline Entity event each day, I'm having to report at least 4 or 5 different spammers.
They all seem to be advertising the same exact website to buy in game currency and/or items for real money. They are also posting their messages 2-4 times in a row in quick succession. Their messages are also spelled out in a way to get past any kind of filter system (if any) that is designed to prevent such spam.
Just before posting this I logged in and immediately saw a spammer post a message 3 times in a row. I went back to the game before finishing this post and there was a second spammer who posted their message twice in a row. Their character and/or @usernames are made up of random letters usually.
This is really a big problem. Please look into it Cryptic.
They all seem to be advertising the same exact website to buy in game currency and/or items for real money. They are also posting their messages 2-4 times in a row in quick succession. Their messages are also spelled out in a way to get past any kind of filter system (if any) that is designed to prevent such spam.
Just before posting this I logged in and immediately saw a spammer post a message 3 times in a row. I went back to the game before finishing this post and there was a second spammer who posted their message twice in a row. Their character and/or @usernames are made up of random letters usually.
This is really a big problem. Please look into it Cryptic.
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and there is little the can do except ban the reported ones. or add absolutely draconian chat limits... and even making the chat near useless don't stop goldsellers.
if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
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I can also confirm that there were quite a few gold spammers in Qnos tonight. I reported at least 1 to GMS for EC site advertisements and I ignored another one.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
What will please you people?!
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In WoW they used to have one gnome after another plummet down from out of the sky and die on impact, and their corpses would spell out the name of some goldscammer site.
Ferengi better carry parachutes for a while, just in case.
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So the gold sellers go where they think there best client base is ...
Yes, they could always make new accounts and spam again and again and again until it becomes too tedious or not lucrative for them to do it. But if Cryptic/PWE takes anything seriously to act upon then this is it, belive me.
Go to ESD, See them just about everyday, but once you ignore them once and report for spamming never really see them again.
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Maybe they should restrict Zone chat to gold members then. Make the s[p|c]ammers pay, then report them.
Not gonna happen. Not everyone shells out $300 for a subscription. I don't. I won't.
But I've played games where world or zone or global chats are restricted by the amount of time a player has accumulated in the game, either by playtime or character level. Something like that works fine without putting a paywall on it.
Even the pay to play WoW had them. They was so bad they could even contact you via in game chat to sell.
Some was even dropping bodies in a manner to spell out the website so everyone to see either floating or on the ground. Showing they was hacking into the game itself. To pull that off.
So no game is safe once they find out. Players would go there for quick gaming items. Even to the point of risking being banned as a result and still try it.
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I got a few in the mail and just report it. However it will be a never ending battle.
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Cryptic: If you think the bugs are bad, wait until you see our fixes!
But thats still not all. If I order now, I get the first vinyl of the new Time Life Rock n' Roll Collection for only 2.99, and each fallowing vinyl for just 19.95. Or I buy the whole collection at once for only 3 small payments of 599.99 each.
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That would cause chaos. Gold is now "Active sub only". So anyone who's the new form of silver, AKA Lapsed gold, will be blocked from Zone chat.
Maybe tie it into a C-store/Time played system?
Spend $5? instant access.
PLay for a week? Access granted.
2.) Don't hang around First City or ESD.
I'm guessing all the 'buzz' about a new expansion is making the gold sellers think that there will be higher demand. I bet they were really happy w/ Cryptic's Energy Credit nerf. Makes their stockpiles worth more. GJ, Cryptic! :rolleyes: