Guild Wars 2

It’s ridiculous to have to endure 2-4 spammers per zone going at it nonstop.

1. Give us a report feature that also puts the spammers on ignore for 24 hours without us having to take the 2nd action AND clutter our block list.

2. Perma ban all gold buying cheaters and post numbers on the launcher daily so people understand that cheating = gone. The only way to truly stop gold spam and sales is to kill demand. You kill demand by making it clear that cheating isn’t tolerated. No sub = no reason to allow players to cheat. As long as there is demand, there will be sellers.

For the mentally challenged out there, you can’t buy gold from ArenaNet.

You can buy gems and sell them to other players such that gold doesn’t magically enter the market, it just changes hands between players. That’s considerably different than buying gold directly for cash from 3rd parties that aren’t players who obtain gold by hacking and stripping accounts and/or bot farming.

The currency exchange is a nice tweak to player economy – it gives players something else to dink with on the market. Gold for cash 3rd party sales not only facilitate cheating but undermine the built-in currency market as well.

3. Deal with spammers quicker. Why are spammers not getting zapped immediately when it takes all of 2 seconds to see review their spam and see they are gold sellers?

4. Force a password reset for everyone and force the use of strong passwords. On the password reset page make it clear that hacked accounts are almost always the player’s fault for poor internet habits and that a strong unique password makes you infinitely less likely to get hacked. Also make it clear that hacked accounts aren’t just stripped of everything you’ve earned, but are also used to advertise gold sales.

5. Look into how addons for WoW, other games, or even how other companies do a better job of filtering out gold spam in chat, because whatever you’re doing now (nothing?) isn’t working at all.

6. Do more to deal with bots. I surely don’t know all the spots that bots hang out but the most blatantly obvious one is the bridge in kessex. No clue why. No clue why the spot hasn’t been changed. No clue why the bot convention there continues to go on, and on, and on.

The current situation is utterly ridiculous and worse than I’ve seen in any MMORPG since EQLive.

Just report them in-game. Right click their name and click report

I wouldn’t go as far as to say shut up but at least post in the right section of the forum…

I wouldn’t mind the ability to report gold spam mails. It’s easy to report them in chat, but you can’t report a mail you recieved.

sccdemir – lighten up dude…

Hickeroar I reported some spam mails I got last night, theres a little exclamation mark icon that let me do so in the bottom middle of the mail window.

Paul.4081:

Hickeroar I reported some spam mails I got last night, theres a little exclamation mark icon that let me do so in the mail window.

DOH! I musta missed that. Thanks.

Hickeroar.9734:

I wouldn’t mind the ability to report gold spam mails. It’s easy to report them in chat, but you can’t report a mail you recieved.

sccdemir – lighten up dude…

Actually you can there is a exclamation sign ! click that and use it to report the gold mail spammers

Voqar.2349:

4. Force a password reset for everyone and force the use of strong passwords. On the password reset page make it clear that hacked accounts are almost always the player’s fault for poor internet habits and that a strong unique password makes you infinitely less likely to get hacked. Also make it clear that hacked accounts aren’t just stripped of everything you’ve earned, but are also used to advertise gold sales.

No, you are wrong saying its almost always player’s fault.

ArenaNet have made a BAD choice in not using a e-mail confirmation for previous e-mail. Lot of people who got the account hacked got their e-mail changed.

Let go through steps
1- the cracker try to enter in the account IN GAME and its blocked by Ip authetication
2- He enters in the account on the SITE
3- He changes the e-mail/account login without any confirmation in the previous one
4- He allow his own IP
5- He got not just access to the account but the account it self.

Are you serious saying its players fault? If we got a e-mail confirmation in the previous one, the cracker:
1- the cracker try to enter in the account IN GAME and its blocked by Ip authetication
2- can not change the e-mail address without invade the e-mail too
3- in a e-mail with 2 ways authentication (gmail for example) he could NEVER enter (wich requires your cellphone)
4- he could not steal the account nor enter into the game

Just to be clear, you get a e-mail confirmation when change your e-mail even in free to play games.

3 mail messages in 5 houres. please do something…