It’s ridiculous to have to endure 2-4 spammers per zone going at it nonstop.
1. Give us a report feature that also puts the spammers on ignore for 24 hours without us having to take the 2nd action AND clutter our block list.
2. Perma ban all gold buying cheaters and post numbers on the launcher daily so people understand that cheating = gone. The only way to truly stop gold spam and sales is to kill demand. You kill demand by making it clear that cheating isn’t tolerated. No sub = no reason to allow players to cheat. As long as there is demand, there will be sellers.
For the mentally challenged out there, you can’t buy gold from ArenaNet.
You can buy gems and sell them to other players such that gold doesn’t magically enter the market, it just changes hands between players. That’s considerably different than buying gold directly for cash from 3rd parties that aren’t players who obtain gold by hacking and stripping accounts and/or bot farming.
The currency exchange is a nice tweak to player economy – it gives players something else to dink with on the market. Gold for cash 3rd party sales not only facilitate cheating but undermine the built-in currency market as well.
3. Deal with spammers quicker. Why are spammers not getting zapped immediately when it takes all of 2 seconds to see review their spam and see they are gold sellers?
4. Force a password reset for everyone and force the use of strong passwords. On the password reset page make it clear that hacked accounts are almost always the player’s fault for poor internet habits and that a strong unique password makes you infinitely less likely to get hacked. Also make it clear that hacked accounts aren’t just stripped of everything you’ve earned, but are also used to advertise gold sales.
5. Look into how addons for WoW, other games, or even how other companies do a better job of filtering out gold spam in chat, because whatever you’re doing now (nothing?) isn’t working at all.
6. Do more to deal with bots. I surely don’t know all the spots that bots hang out but the most blatantly obvious one is the bridge in kessex. No clue why. No clue why the spot hasn’t been changed. No clue why the bot convention there continues to go on, and on, and on.
The current situation is utterly ridiculous and worse than I’ve seen in any MMORPG since EQLive.
