sagesourceb16_ESO wrote: »Gold spammers tend to use character strings that are HIGHLY unlikely in legitimate users. Could you just flag every post that has six asterisks in a row, for instance, double-check by eye to make sure it isn't some delicate person writing "***" as "b******," and ban the spammers?
Trouble is, you would probably need one human working full time on each world instance, something that is simply not financially possible. We would end up paying our entire sub just to try and stop gold sellers and no money left over for investment in new content.
Zenimax needs to come up with a fix that involves minimal human input.
One side effect of the way trade is done is that I see loads of legitimate chat posts saying things like
Selling 100 iron ore only 1000 gold
So they can't even look for the word gold as some sort of indicator.
i understand the quest to get rid of bots and gold sellers. but if your too lazy to find a way to get a vamp or wolf bite for yourself, then its your own fualt. they got the bite that everyone wants....its a commodity that they are selling to the people that want the easy way instead of finding out how to do it themselves. someone selling the ww/vamp bites is not the same as cheaters, it sucks but they have it and can set what ever price they want on it. So please quit lumping them in with the cheaters. by the way, if you pay any attention to the guild part of the forums you will find many guilds that if you join they offer the bites for both to their members for free.
i am already at the point of cancelling my subscription if things are not done to address these issues swiftly and severely, because why should i pay for something that doesnt work , or if it is working as intended , it was a MASSIVE oversight from them to think this would be acceptable to paying customers when a part of the story they want to play , and are paying to play , is taken away from them
SypherDiass wrote: »yeh i have seen dungeons etc with regular people farming the bosses , most of the time these are easiest spotted because they actually move around the boss' spawn , as opposed to standing in one place and spamming 1 move constantly to try and aggro / kill whatever is in front of it ....
either way , the real players there are still not 'real players' as most of us have some self worth and have more important things in our life than trying to ruin someone else's fun. i can understand people wanting to farm a boss for soul gems etc and even for loot to sell / deconstruct or whatever , but if you are farming a boss , and you have killed it 20+ times already , would it really hurt you soo much to step back and allow someone to finish their dungeon then be on their way ? or is allowing someone that 1 piece of loot going to break your bank ?
SypherDiass wrote: »i understand the quest to get rid of bots and gold sellers. but if your too lazy to find a way to get a vamp or wolf bite for yourself, then its your own fualt. they got the bite that everyone wants....its a commodity that they are selling to the people that want the easy way instead of finding out how to do it themselves. someone selling the ww/vamp bites is not the same as cheaters, it sucks but they have it and can set what ever price they want on it. So please quit lumping them in with the cheaters. by the way, if you pay any attention to the guild part of the forums you will find many guilds that if you join they offer the bites for both to their members for free.
its a commodity ? so its not something with quest-lines and story behind it that is part of the game that people are paying to play and enjoy the full benefits of the game ?
i never said i was trying to get a bite , i am still too low level to even undertake the quest once i am bitten , i am more concerned about the integrity of the game with people monopolozing the game through things that should be available to everyone that wants it.
the people with the bite didnt play the game properly , they just click an run , to race to get to the appropriate level so they can interfere with how other people want to play the game and try and get rich off of other people's mis-fortune, from the way you go on about it being 'tuff luck' and 'just the way it is' i would think you were selling bites and trying to justify it ......
if you want to sell a bite , go somewhere OTHER than where the bite spawns , offer it in davons watch or mournhold or the other 2 main cities for the other 2 factions.... dont camp the spawn of the mobs , kill them all off so no one else can get near them so they have 2 choices ... pay or dont get bitten / scratched ... cos that is clearly griefing ... and should be handled with severe bans in the same way that gold sellers should be ... i am not saying its the same offence , but it has the potential to be as destructive towards player 'morale' and 'motivation' towards continuing their subscription when things like this are being taken away from players by other greedy players..... people are paying to enjoy the story side of the game , the mmo part for most at the minute is an UNFORTUNATE side effect that we are having to tolerate , IT IS NOT the happy community version of skyrim that many hoped it would be , and it is largely due to these people trying to ruin it for everyone else and get rich while they do it
i am already at the point of cancelling my subscription if things are not done to address these issues swiftly and severely, because why should i pay for something that doesnt work , or if it is working as intended , it was a MASSIVE oversight from them to think this would be acceptable to paying customers when a part of the story they want to play , and are paying to play , is taken away from them ....
chimera2005 wrote: »In a recent event, the other day my account had an unauthorized access attempt, and Zenimax sent me and email, with a 8 character code so I could re-access my account. In the email, it said they locked it, because someone on another IP address tried to access it.
I do believe it would a good idea, and in the best interest of you as a company, and for your loyal customers to give your security measures an extra step.
By use of a remote security password. The password would change automatically every few seconds.
http://oi58.tinypic.com/357is15.jpg
or one via Android or iSO app that works the exact same way as the physical remotes as pictured above.
Square-Enix already has both measures in place.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
@chimera2005
Percipience wrote: »
I am glad to see action being taken against gold sellers but reading the above gave me pause.... twice now i've had to use a code sent to my email because it said my IP address wasn't recognized - even though I was playing from the only computer I have ever played from - does this mean someone was trying to hack my account? If so, is it possible that some of the ingame mails are from accounts that were hacked (seeing as how half our login information is available to everyone) - in the first several days, the gold spammers all had names that didn't spell anything - just a string of letters - now I'm getting ingame mail selling gold with names that do sound like legitimate names and I wonder if their account was hacked and will now be banned because someone used it for gold selling. I'm really concerned this might happen because passwords seem to be easy for hackers to get (wasn't there recently a Heartbleed bug that supposedly exposed a ton of information?) - I'd be fine with using an authorization code like Chimera mentions - the extra step would sure make me feel more secure.