Troll or true?

DreamyLu · March 6

Hello All

Just have something in the game now: a guy asked for a price check and when I click the item to proceed, I got this below.

Is it known? Normal? An April joke? A troll that has manipulated the game (via an addon for ex.)?

If anyone has information, thanks to share.

wilykcat · March 6

ROFL 😆
That's awesome. Where can I find this in-game?

DreamyLu · March 6

I was in Summerset. However, since then, I left to take my dog out and am back just now. Not sure if the guy is still around.

Edited for an add: the item to click was an Old Growth Shield.

DreamyLu · March 6

Sorry for double posting, but just to say, the guy doing that (sorry, can't share name) is still in Summerset playing with it. So if you hurry there, you will see it by yourself.

JavaRen · March 6

What pricing add on did you use?

Monte_Cristo · March 6

I had someone link that to me as an item in Glenumbra today. Can't remember what the item was, though.

chaz · March 6

Sorry for poking in, but, How do I un sub to this thread? I'm getting notices for things I'm not participating in.

Well, this is the exception to the rule tho.

Soarora · March 6

There are some people who will manipulate links (if you copy and paste a link to an item, guild, or house into some other place you’ll see the code for it). You can make items that don’t exist that way. Not sure how this one works though.

SaffronCitrusflower · March 6

Wouldn't a pop up like this be a violation of the ToS and warrant a ban?

SilverBride · March 6

SaffronCitrusflower wrote: »

Wouldn't a pop up like this be a violation of the ToS and warrant a ban?

I would think so.

@ZOS_Kevin Is this a violation?

sans-culottes · March 6

SaffronCitrusflower wrote: »

Wouldn't a pop up like this be a violation of the ToS and warrant a ban?

It’s definitely sketchy. Using a fake PC message to solicit potentially unwelcome, intentionally inflammatory political slogans is not cool.

ZOS_Kevin · March 6

SilverBride wrote: »

SaffronCitrusflower wrote: »

Wouldn't a pop up like this be a violation of the ToS and warrant a ban?

I would think so.

@ZOS_Kevin Is this a violation?

First, generally we would not advise clicking links from players you do not know. However, if you are sent an external link under false pretenses (especially with an out of game political reference), please make sure to report the user and the link. A ban is for Customer Service to decided based on the player's existing history, so cannot comment on what the outcome would be.

SilverBride · March 6

Thank you for clarifying!

Baertram · March 6

If you are unsure about links you can copy the text from the chat (if you e.g. got an addon like pChat enabled) and paste it outside in a notepad/text editor
You should see somehting like a |H1:dataHere:dataHere:dataHere| link as text in the end.
Or |H1:house:idHere:@accountNameHere| or similar.
The ingame system just "renders" these so called itemlinks/links to show as e.g. [My house - come visit it] or [Item with name] which you can click then.

As Kevin said: if that link tries to open any external website another popup occurs which will ask you if you really want to leave ESO and open an URL! So do not accept that dialog then and abort it, unless you really wanted to -> e.g. open an URL of an addon, clicked at the LibAddonMenu addon settings page's header of that addon, to read the FAQs or read the addon description once again at the www.esoui.com website. Some addons also provide a link for donations that way.

All internal links in the game usually do not harm you or do anything automated. This one here was just a changed "housing" link where the house name of that houseId of that @accountName was changed to "President Trump", and he manipulated the link to contain that "wait...why did you click on me?" text in addiontion (this was new to me too, very creative ;-) )
Or the other way around.

Without seeing the actual link text it's only guessing.

Elvenheart · March 6

I saw this yesterday in game too, only the person was asking out of these four classes, which one was the best. Three of the classes were real, and one was “Bard” so of course I clicked on that one! It wanted to take me to the same house in the original post pic. I canceled out of going to the house, but just assumed it was a gimmick to get people to come to the house and didn’t think much about it after that. Now, I’m curious what the house looks like! Maybe the first line is the name of the house in home tours?