Bots and Gold Sellers/Buyers Need to be Eradicated

Jadeviper1974 · April 2014

AtomZer0 wrote: »

The amount of bots and gold sellers spamming up this game is ridiculous.
They say they've banned "thousands", but I'm not seeing a difference.
At many dungeon bosses, there are usually so many bots, it takes players several tries to even do enough damage to get the reward for killing the boss. This isn't fun.
Gold Selling spam is clogging up chat and in-boxes. I had 10 messages just today!
Reporting them is tedious and needs to be streamlined.
We also don't need an email ticket every single time we report a gold selling. It's clogging up my real email.
And gold buyers are ruining the economy. I find it really hard to believe that in a week (almost 2 if you include early release) that so many people have 100k+ to spend on rare motifs or the ridiculous amounts people are offering for a vampire/werewolf bite.

I want better communication on what ZOS is doing to combat these issues. I want to know that gold buyers are being banned permanently. It only takes a simple google search to find forums of people talking about where and how to buy gold and sharing tips and tricks to not get caught. That's infuriating.
I honestly wish ZOS would start publicly shaming gold buyers.
But knowing that won't happen, I want to know that they really are getting banned.

"Wipe them out. All of them!" - Darth Sidious

AtomZer0 · April 2014

Tweek wrote: »

I'm not a gold buyer, and have not done an RMT in many years, and never plan to ever again. I just tell it like it is.

But by your own words, you are a gold buyer, or at least were one.

Tweek wrote: »

Also I have bought gold in guild wars and was not banned for it even though they knew I did it.

Sorry if it seems like I'm attacking you personally . You haven't said you bought gold in ESO, and I won't assume you have. It's just that you're the one defending gold buyers, a group I personally detest.
When I said things like "Your argument is basically 'Don't ban me because I spend money on the game", I don't mean to infer that the "I" is you, just that that is the argument being made. I suppose I could have said your argument is basically "Don't ban gold buyers because they spend money on the game."
Either way, I still find the argument invalid for reasons I've already pointed out.

Shortnsmelly · April 2014

This is becoming stupid. I don't care if people buy or sell gold, but stop spamming chat and peoples mail about it. I agree they should be banned, just due to the fact you can't even read zone chat because of them. I'f the gm's are smart they would read these string and look into tweeks account, bet they find a reason to ban him right away.

Please fix the spamming. Even make chat and mail locked out before level 10. Anything. This is making the game unplayable.

Saerydoth · April 2014

Tweek wrote: »

TBH I think gold buyer's should be warned and not banned(like in WoW and every other MMO) with the amount there probably is I would think it would be bad for business to ban them(they obviously have money to spend). Not to mention with the amount of spammers nor everyone knows this isn't allowed.

are u mad bro?

"We also don't need an email ticket every single time we report a gold selling. It's clogging up my real email."

Yeah u mad.

I don't think they deserve a warning. People buying gold is what enables these parasites to exist in the first place. It's bad for the game (sold gold is stolen from compromised accounts, and spamming for it is also done from compromised accounts). Also, the real money they make from it goes into things like organized crime, credit card fraud, and money laundering.

People that buy gold need to immediately get hit with the banhammer so hard their grandmother will feel it. I have ZERO sympathy for them.

reggielee · April 2014

dungeons are totally ruined by the huge numbers of drone bots killing all mob spawns. this will turn off legitimate players who will leave after the month of playing. They also are getting trounced in pvp by players who reached lvl 50 on the first day of the game and cant keep up with those same players who all have the 25% plus speed mounts due to excess gold exploitation.

its not the way the devs envisioned their game but I hold them 100% accountable for not foreseeing these exploits

willpascoe24prb19_ESO · April 2014

Tweek wrote: »

TBH I think gold buyer's should be warned and not banned(like in WoW and every other MMO)

You Sir sound like some 1 that likes to buy gold and it should be a 100 yr banable offence in any mmo IMO the constant email spams the shear amount of hacked accounts, the amount of bots taking nodes killing boss's to name but a few reasons of making any mmo an unpleasant playing environment.

I do hope your post has been flagged up as a possible gold buyer and is now getting watched.

ed.radleyrwb17_ESO · April 2014

Really if no one would buy their gold would they keep trying so hard?

Buyers are as bad as Sellers.