Stop the Gold spammers.

Dreddpool

Recently they have began incresing the font size to prevent us from reporting them as when you scroll the chat window it jumps past their name, so most people are telling their fellow palyers to decrease the font size and they can then see tthe spammers name.
I have a solution top stop them from doing this, if you were to limit the amount of text line to say 5 as currently the spam 15 plus lines of their website, this would allow us to report them and we wouldn''t need to decrease the font size every time they spam their messages and also we wouldn't then have to increase the font to be able to read other players normal messages.

So if you could in the next patch limit the text lines in chat that would be great as we they players are getting annoyed at this espically since the ggame isn't even released yet.
Also would it be possible to have the ignores be account wide as i have ignored the same guy twice now yet nis messages are still getting through.

PS: is there a limit to how many people we can have in our ignore list, mine is currently at 24, i'm hoping it's set at something like 100+ and i hope there aren't more than that many spammers

Relmyna

This is becoming a major issue. Having to change my font size every time I want to ignore a gold spammer is a pain. We need a major crack down. This is going to get out of hand really fast if something doesn't change.

KerinKor

Zenimax totally failed to design the chat system with RMT scum in mind, something every other MMO should have taught them to do.

There's clearly no flood control, not even a rudimentary filtering system (the spammers don't even have to try obfuscating their crap).

What we're suffering was entirely predictable but Zenimax failed to see it.

EQBallzz

I have to agree. No MMO should be launching these days without a complete plan of attack to deal with these parasites from beta and beyond. It's no surprise this is going to happen and it's not just against the TOS for selling gold but the spamming and disruption of gameplay is bordering on outright harassment.

Not really the sort of thing you want happening to your paying customers. It really seems like nothing was in place to combat this (even worse the chat window is almost designed for the spammer instead of the people trying to report them).

I know it's not realistic to think there will be no spam from day one but we don't have to make it this easy for them, either.

edit: I forgot to mention that I just saw a gold spammer posting in here..on the official forums. It looks to have been removed but the blatant disregard is amazing.

Nox_Aeterna

There is no stop to the gold sellers people, unless they do something like BoA items/gold... only , there is no point asking them to make a miracle.

With that said , i agree with OP that i wish they would change the message size limit. I dont mind ignoring them after the first msg , but the whole changing font size each time is annoying.

Anex

I complained about this and suggested the same thing a few days ago.. got nothin. Posted about it on Facebook too in the hopes that they'd SEE and act on it and had jerks telling me to QQ elsewhere and to use report and block (as if I wasn't and for which I said I did in my post).

Of course they fail to understand that increasing window size doesn't solve it and that reducing font size takes a good 1 min navigating through menus/stopping what you're doing. Then the application form to report simple gold spam, then ignore. After you're done, another pops up.

Limiting the amount of text (no need to write a book in chat), along with a name right-click to "report for gold/ignore" would be a godsend. This has GOT to stop. The game is unplayable chat-wise in cities.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/comment/502940/#Comment_502940

My post DID get a reply, but only on the first part of it and nothing we didn't already know -_-

SmithNL

I haven my chat option set to disable zone chat. Fixes the problem until the dev team comes with something more useful!

jacxx

This bad making game very unenjoyable. spam WWW.G4EZ.COM no name so cant report. looks like it could be a script maybe very repetitive. Please boot!!!

Saerydoth

This won't solve the problem for the game but it will solve it for you: http://www.curse.com/teso-addons/teso/spamfilter

The addon will give you the player name that did the spam too, so you can right click that and report player, without having to worry about changing txt size, etc.

Myrel_ESO

I reported some of the gold spammers at first, and now I get email from those that I reported everyday 
If the gold spammers are not dealt with soon, then this will be just another buy your way to the front game. This type of leveling saddens me, for all the hard work others have put in to their skills and such… Why bother when you can buy it…. Thank You Chinese A HOLES
If I could spam GOLDAH.COM I would, and if I could afford a way to china, and seek them out. BOOM!!!
Create a good if not a great game, and then have the players work for it or buy it $$$$$.

DrywFiltiarn

KerinKor wrote: »

Zenimax totally failed to design the chat system with RMT scum in mind, something every other MMO should have taught them to do.

There's clearly no flood control, not even a rudimentary filtering system (the spammers don't even have to try obfuscating their crap).

What we're suffering was entirely predictable but Zenimax failed to see it.

Blizz still does no better in their chats when it comes to gold vendors And they're having 10 years of experience on the topic by now. In the end, whatever ZOS will do, it will be unpreventable that spammers spam in chat. You can only do so many things to prevent them from doing it as there's always more ways to do it unfortunately. And things like API, surely do help them to do it easily, but they don't need it in order to be able to do it. It's easy enough to simulate a series of keypresses and/or mouseclicks to do the exact same thing without any use of the API.

And filtering and flood control will probably in the end hurt regular players the most. In other games came accross issues with these too often where totally valid messages became dropped from chat because of use of my native language for instance, or that in really heavy discussions I apparently send to many messages and got silenced for x minutes.