Comments on: Rant: Gold Spammers http://www.mmocrunch.com/2008/09/26/rant-gold-spammers/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:01:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: ha http://www.mmocrunch.com/2008/09/26/rant-gold-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-162344 ha Mon, 11 Oct 2010 01:40:27 +0000 http://www.mmocrunch.com/2008/09/26/rant-gold-spammers/#comment-162344 well you dont spam with the uberlevelled account that makes the money. thats stupid. you spam with a level 1 account and send the gold with your high level account after queuing up a high number of sales. well you dont spam with the uberlevelled account that makes the money. thats stupid. you spam with a level 1 account and send the gold with your high level account after queuing up a high number of sales.

]]> By: batolemaeus http://www.mmocrunch.com/2008/09/26/rant-gold-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-10574 batolemaeus Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:45:48 +0000 http://www.mmocrunch.com/2008/09/26/rant-gold-spammers/#comment-10574 Eve has an interesting aproach, too, by the way. As per default, sending someone a message directly or convoing him has a so-called CSPA-Charge attached. It's not a lot of money, but if you want to spam, you need to invest a good chunk of ingame currency. You can even set this charge to a maximum value except for people you trust. I have never, ever, had a goldspammer convo me or write me a mail. They don't even try. Their only way to spam is in busy systems local chat and popular channels, but it only takes minutes until they are banned. Ccp does a good work there, but without much publicity. Eve has an interesting aproach, too, by the way.
As per default, sending someone a message directly or convoing him has a so-called CSPA-Charge attached. It’s not a lot of money, but if you want to spam, you need to invest a good chunk of ingame currency. You can even set this charge to a maximum value except for people you trust.

I have never, ever, had a goldspammer convo me or write me a mail. They don’t even try.
Their only way to spam is in busy systems local chat and popular channels, but it only takes minutes until they are banned. Ccp does a good work there, but without much publicity.

]]> By: Openedge1 http://www.mmocrunch.com/2008/09/26/rant-gold-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-10503 Openedge1 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:46:24 +0000 http://www.mmocrunch.com/2008/09/26/rant-gold-spammers/#comment-10503 <i>This helps prevent the kind of mass mailings that Age of Conan still suffers from</i> So, when was the last time you played AoC? I have had ZERO of these types of emails for at least a month now. It also is not the focus of forum conversations like it is for WAR. So, I am trying to gather where your data comes from. I just assume it is leftover hate, and you have a right for that. But, stating data like this as fact? Kind of silly on your part. This helps prevent the kind of mass mailings that Age of Conan still suffers from

So, when was the last time you played AoC?
I have had ZERO of these types of emails for at least a month now. It also is not the focus of forum conversations like it is for WAR.
So, I am trying to gather where your data comes from.
I just assume it is leftover hate, and you have a right for that.
But, stating data like this as fact?
Kind of silly on your part.

]]> By: Hektor http://www.mmocrunch.com/2008/09/26/rant-gold-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-10501 Hektor Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:30:29 +0000 http://www.mmocrunch.com/2008/09/26/rant-gold-spammers/#comment-10501 I suppose that's one argument against the WoW-style uber fast levelling that has appeared in the genre, as a contrast to what went before in the days of EQ1 and the like. Similar to Final Fantasy, hitting max level in EQ1 was a hell of a task and gold/plat sellers probably wouldn't risk losing their accounts to do all the spamming. I much prefer that option to simply making large amounts of gold available and not giving people much to buy with it. Indirectly, that kills tradeskilling, because nobody wants to make items to sell if the money they receive for them can't buy anything. I suppose that’s one argument against the WoW-style uber fast levelling that has appeared in the genre, as a contrast to what went before in the days of EQ1 and the like. Similar to Final Fantasy, hitting max level in EQ1 was a hell of a task and gold/plat sellers probably wouldn’t risk losing their accounts to do all the spamming.

I much prefer that option to simply making large amounts of gold available and not giving people much to buy with it. Indirectly, that kills tradeskilling, because nobody wants to make items to sell if the money they receive for them can’t buy anything.

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