Guild Wars 2

I’m getting tired of getting ingame mail from people advertising the sale of gold.

The solution to the problem of gold sellers is simple. Instead of blocking and banning only their ingame accounts, also block the software key they used to create their account.

To people that are buying ans selling ingame gold: The buying and selling of ingame gold is actually against not just the terms of service, but it’s also against the law in real life. You can be sued, fined, and imprisoned.

Well, consider me confused. How would banning the software key actually fix this issue? ANet’s not simply banning the character, they’re banning the entire account. Going one step further to also deactivate the software key wouldn’t… actually do anything!

Cinder, i think you may be confused. What the OP is suggesting is to centrally ban the software from gaining access to the game, instead of individually on each account. It would prevent new accounts from using the software to begin with, limiting the capability of goldsellers even starting up in the game.

I am pretty sure that GW2 is probably working on figuring out botting software and not letting people sign into the account or autobanning.

It is a hard thing to figure out though with all the different programs that are out there.

I admit, that may help slow them, but doesn’t each new account made come with yet another software key? Something tells me it wouldn’t make much of a dent or difference in the matter. And that’s if ANet can actually do something like that on their side. Given the limited capabilities on their end concerning character/account rollbacks and other issues, I have a feeling they don’t have the systems necessary to even begin to do something like this.

I just want to point out that gold sellers don’t have many accounts for the game so the banning and blocking their ingame accounts that advertise the selling of gold will do nothing since these accounts are stolen from people not using strong passwords.

The only way to get rid of gold sellers is to not buy from them since if they weren’t making any money you would not get these messages.

I also want to add that I have seen a great improvement in the reduction of these mails since the start of the game so everything that ANET is doing to combat this problem is working, but if we want these to go away the communtiy has to learn that you need a strong password and not buy gold from the gold sellers.

Mira.4906:

I just want to point out that gold sellers don’t have many accounts for the game so the banning and blocking their ingame accounts that advertise the selling of gold will do nothing since these accounts are stolen from people not using strong passwords.

The only way to get rid of gold sellers is to not buy from them since if they weren’t making any money you would not get these messages.

I also want to add that I have seen a great improvement in the reduction of these mails since the start of the game so everything that ANET is doing to combat this problem is working, but if we want these to go away the communtiy has to learn that you need a strong password and not buy gold from the gold sellers.

I don’t see an improvement at all, I keep getting 4 or more letter in my ingame mail from people selling gold every day, so it seems to be getting worse.

One of the ways the they can fight the issue of people buying gold is to set up a sting account. ANet should set up an account like a gold seller and anyone that buys gold from that account gets their account banned. Make it so that people wouldn’t know if they are buying gold from a seller or sting operation.

castlemanic.3198:

Cinder, i think you may be confused. What the OP is suggesting is to centrally ban the software from gaining access to the game, instead of individually on each account. It would prevent new accounts from using the software to begin with, limiting the capability of goldsellers even starting up in the game.

Lets clear some stuff up here:

Software Key: the string of numbers that came with your box (if you bought a physical box).

Software: Program running on a computer (not the most accurate description, but it will do for our discussion here)

Banning the Software Key is equivilent to banning the account.

Keeping the software out is impossible. Look up “The Analog hole” for DRM, the fundamental problem is the same.

Hello,

Thank you for your concerns, we really appreciate it. In the meantime, we invite you to keep reporting that kind of issues to our customer support team.

Thank you for your understanding & patience.