i just report any player i find and i encourage all to do the same

They are not selling gold because of the lack of AH. They just want to steal your account

There's one guy using a fake name after several lines of blank space to try and stop people from ignoring him.
On the plus side, after reporting him earlier today I saw him again this evening on a different account, so he may have been banned once. This spamming is intolerable, though. ZOS needs to crack down.

This shows a SEVERE lack of oversight on Zenimax...after how many decades of this gold spam *** have we had to deal with...and devs STILL can't get it through there stupid thick heads that you need to hit this crap with a hammer right out of the gates, and not wait years like blizzard did...in fact to this day, Blizzard STILL can't figure this *** out, yet some guy with only limited access to WoW's API made an addon that blocked 99% all chat spam back when I played.

I swear game companies are reaping huge profits from gold spammers and have zero incentive to actually have a decent chat filter.

You CAN NOT stop gold spammers from existing, but you can stop them from advertising yet no company to date gives a *** about doing this. You can right click/report spam until your face turns blue but IT DOES NOTHING. If that feature actually did anything, it would be abused to hell and back by players with an axe to grind. Not to mention most accounts are disposable anyways. THey buy the game, get an account, make as many characters as they can before the account gets shutdown from either no payment or breaking the rules, but by then they have already made profits dozens of times over from stupid players who give their CC info over and get their bank accounts or CC's maxed out.

No you HAVE to CODE IN TO THE GAME a smarter filter that stops the advertising and makes it not worth it to sell in that game anymore. If the addon that WoW had was hard coded into the game for everyone, it would have put the brakes on WoW's spam problems, but nope, not worth the man hours apparently.

I hope Zenimax is not as full of incompetence as Blizzard is when it comes to this.

They had a partial fix for this in WoW at one point (preventing players under level 10 from communicating via any method except /tells) and it was reverted due to new players complaining that they couldn't get into Trade Chat.

This was when the gold spammers used to stack corpses in town to spell out the name of their website.

They always find a way.

I would love to see a smart logic filter that analyzes each reported gold spam, detects patterns and common words/language used, and learns from each new report to keep improving itself, similar to how modern spam filters work for e-mail.

As for zone chat, it should strictly be IC, with an opt-in OOC for any non-IC communications, and the IC zone chat kept strictly moderated to mute offenders.

(Although that does nothing to fix the immersion-breaking egregiously bad names!)

I agree but I gotta say the one thing they did get right is the account-wide ignore, every MMO needs that.

ZOS_TristanK wrote: »

so please continue to report this issue to our Support Team in-game by using the /help command.

You would get literally thousands of reports if you linked a spam report to the dropdown when rt clicking the name.

Many find it easier to simply use the ignore function that is there over taking the time to fill out a report.

Please make it easier to report gold sellers so that I don't have to fill out the whole form, write a note etc. I just want a drop down "gold seller" report it and move on. Otherwise it ruins my gaming experience because I am reporting these gold sellers every few minutes.

ZOS_TristanK wrote: »

Thank you for reporting this issue, folks. This is a violation of our Terms of Service, and rest assured that we are investigating each incident of gold selling that is reported to us. Our team tackles these reports as they come in, so please continue to report this issue to our Support Team in-game by using the /help command.

What is the policy tho are you going to "investigate" for 6 months then ban ? Its not even official release day and the problem is only going to get worse and worse and if you don't do something big and drastic and noticeable by the community to show to us that your actually doing something it will hurt the game. I already have turned off zone chat because of the spam.

You need a couple people to review reports and when its an ad for gold selling leveling and that sort of thing its pretty obvious and that account needs to be banned right there and then no waiting for 6 months take a person about 1 minute per report to see that it is indeed gold selling spam and then BANHAMMER !!!!!

Show us you want to protect your game and the people who are here to actually PLAY your game were all waiting on you right now. Don't let us down.

I also have played on and off since pre-launch. Every other chat was a Gold seller. It gets quite annoying when a chat box pops up and the whole thing is filled with 1 message. I don't know that I would stop playing, but if turning off chat is an option, could someone tell me how. Or is there a filter to hit on special characters. It seems most start with Astericks or some other character.