Guild Wars 2

At 3:42pm est I reported a guy for gold spamming. At 4:11pm, 4:37pm and 4:38pm he spammed his gold selling. At 9:34pm est the same guy is in rata sum spamming gold selling.

Close to a 6 hour time frame where someone reported for gold spamming is still up and running. I have screen shots of it too.

Tonight the guy has company as well since 2 other gold spammers are now competing with him in rata sum.

So Anet what happened to perma bans? Let me guess you were blowing smoke and the gold sellers called your bluff.

Edit: 9:56pm and 9:58pm same guy…spamming in Rata Sum after I reported him yet again.

support tickets have multi-day wait times. what makes you think they can get to every gold seller in <6 hours? it’s pretty clear that they are not blowing smoke about banning people, they are just swamped.

What makes you think a game in 2012 should not have a system in place to deal with Gold Spamming? 15+ years of MMO gold spamming and games still release with this garbage being allowed. People will go to this site and get their account stolen causing Anet more work. It is comical that Anet puts out messages about email security while at the same time allowing the scamming sites to advertise in their game.

10:48pm est same guy spamming away in Rata Sum.

A system in place? WHAT system? There’s no sub fee to keep them out, and there’s no way to track or find them until they’ve been seen. They need more than one person reporting them (Since if every person was banned because one upset jerk posted a report about them, even if unjust, then everyone would be banned) so right now, all that can be done is report them and hope it gets taken care of sooner rather than later.

Besides… you can buy gold legitimately in-game with gems and people know this. It’s only a matter of time before the gold farmers realize they’re not going to be getting that $60 they spent for a banned account back.

Methinks Anet will deal with them once they first sort out the hacked accounts and people who are unable to log in for whatever reason, among other issues. Who knows, maybe someone in their team is already working on improving the reporting system or the anti-spamming system.

Cazio.2137:

11:35 PM: exact same guy spamming gold selling site in Rata Sum.

I’ve seen a bot unbanned for roughly a week. Don’t expect Anet to ban a single gold seller in such a small amount of time, especially when there’s a lot of bigger issues at the moment.

Cazio.2137:

11:35 PM: exact same guy spamming gold selling site in Rata Sum.

11:40 PM: Guy continues to stand around glaring at gold seller waiting for someone to ban him while complaining about it on the forums instead of playing the game.

Seriously dude, just play the game. Let it go. Run around and do some events, or go to another city or something.

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

11:35 PM: exact same guy spamming gold selling site in Rata Sum.

11:40 PM: Guy continues to stand around glaring at gold seller waiting for someone to ban him while complaining about it on the forums instead of playing the game.

Seriously dude, just play the game. Let it go. Run around and do some events, or go to another city or something.

I always find it hilarious when people want others to stop reporting gold sellers. It makes me question their motives.

Cazio.2137:

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

11:35 PM: exact same guy spamming gold selling site in Rata Sum.

11:40 PM: Guy continues to stand around glaring at gold seller waiting for someone to ban him while complaining about it on the forums instead of playing the game.

Seriously dude, just play the game. Let it go. Run around and do some events, or go to another city or something.

I always find it hilarious when people want others to stop reporting gold sellers. It makes me question their motives.

Oh no I’m not telling him to stop reporting gold sellers. By all means, report them.

What he should STOP doing is standing glaring at him and giving a minute-by-minute complaint of how long the guy is standing there. Send the report in and go on your way.

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

11:35 PM: exact same guy spamming gold selling site in Rata Sum.

11:40 PM: Guy continues to stand around glaring at gold seller waiting for someone to ban him while complaining about it on the forums instead of playing the game.

Seriously dude, just play the game. Let it go. Run around and do some events, or go to another city or something.

Oh no I’m not telling him to stop reporting gold sellers. By all means, report them.

What he should STOP doing is standing glaring at him and giving a minute-by-minute complaint of how long the guy is standing there. Send the report in and go on your way.

I always find it hilarious when people want others to stop reporting gold sellers. It makes me question their motives.

I’m crafting so yes, I am “playing the game.” If you don’t like the reporting feel free to stay out of this thread.

11:50pm est same guy spamming gold in Rata Sum

Cazio.2137:

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

11:35 PM: exact same guy spamming gold selling site in Rata Sum.

11:40 PM: Guy continues to stand around glaring at gold seller waiting for someone to ban him while complaining about it on the forums instead of playing the game.

Seriously dude, just play the game. Let it go. Run around and do some events, or go to another city or something.

Oh no I’m not telling him to stop reporting gold sellers. By all means, report them.

What he should STOP doing is standing glaring at him and giving a minute-by-minute complaint of how long the guy is standing there. Send the report in and go on your way.

I always find it hilarious when people want others to stop reporting gold sellers. It makes me question their motives.

I’m crafting so yes, I am “playing the game.” If you don’t like the reporting feel free to stay out of this thread.

11:50pm est same guy spamming gold in Rata Sum

OK point made with the crafting, but if it pisses you off so much there’s five other cities you can go craft in. You reported him, and we don’t need to hear your minute-by-minute playthrough about how he’s still there.

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

11:35 PM: exact same guy spamming gold selling site in Rata Sum.

11:40 PM: Guy continues to stand around glaring at gold seller waiting for someone to ban him while complaining about it on the forums instead of playing the game.

Seriously dude, just play the game. Let it go. Run around and do some events, or go to another city or something.

Oh no I’m not telling him to stop reporting gold sellers. By all means, report them.

What he should STOP doing is standing glaring at him and giving a minute-by-minute complaint of how long the guy is standing there. Send the report in and go on your way.

I always find it hilarious when people want others to stop reporting gold sellers. It makes me question their motives.

I’m crafting so yes, I am “playing the game.” If you don’t like the reporting feel free to stay out of this thread.

11:50pm est same guy spamming gold in Rata Sum

OK point made with the crafting, but if it pisses you off so much there’s five other cities you can go craft in. You reported him, and we don’t need to hear your minute-by-minute playthrough about how he’s still there.

Then don’t open the thread? What a novel concept…

Cazio.2137:

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

11:35 PM: exact same guy spamming gold selling site in Rata Sum.

11:40 PM: Guy continues to stand around glaring at gold seller waiting for someone to ban him while complaining about it on the forums instead of playing the game.

Seriously dude, just play the game. Let it go. Run around and do some events, or go to another city or something.

Oh no I’m not telling him to stop reporting gold sellers. By all means, report them.

What he should STOP doing is standing glaring at him and giving a minute-by-minute complaint of how long the guy is standing there. Send the report in and go on your way.

I always find it hilarious when people want others to stop reporting gold sellers. It makes me question their motives.

I’m crafting so yes, I am “playing the game.” If you don’t like the reporting feel free to stay out of this thread.

11:50pm est same guy spamming gold in Rata Sum

OK point made with the crafting, but if it pisses you off so much there’s five other cities you can go craft in. You reported him, and we don’t need to hear your minute-by-minute playthrough about how he’s still there.

Then don’t open the thread? What a novel concept…

I think I’ll just go to sleep instead.

Point is, quit bumping this thread, you’ve made your point. Goodnight.

I must be one of the lucky ones, I haven’t run into a gold seller yet. Just report them and let ArenaNet take it from there.

Cazio.2137:

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

11:35 PM: exact same guy spamming gold selling site in Rata Sum.

11:40 PM: Guy continues to stand around glaring at gold seller waiting for someone to ban him while complaining about it on the forums instead of playing the game.

Seriously dude, just play the game. Let it go. Run around and do some events, or go to another city or something.

Oh no I’m not telling him to stop reporting gold sellers. By all means, report them.

What he should STOP doing is standing glaring at him and giving a minute-by-minute complaint of how long the guy is standing there. Send the report in and go on your way.

I always find it hilarious when people want others to stop reporting gold sellers. It makes me question their motives.

I’m crafting so yes, I am “playing the game.” If you don’t like the reporting feel free to stay out of this thread.

11:50pm est same guy spamming gold in Rata Sum

OK point made with the crafting, but if it pisses you off so much there’s five other cities you can go craft in. You reported him, and we don’t need to hear your minute-by-minute playthrough about how he’s still there.

Then don’t open the thread? What a novel concept…

Report him.
Block him.
Never worry about it again.

Or make a thread on the forums and look like a kitten as you mark the specific time of his continued spamming. Whatever.

Cazio.2137:

Jhu.3965:

Cazio.2137:

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

Chessrook.8643:

Cazio.2137:

11:35 PM: exact same guy spamming gold selling site in Rata Sum.

11:40 PM: Guy continues to stand around glaring at gold seller waiting for someone to ban him while complaining about it on the forums instead of playing the game.

Seriously dude, just play the game. Let it go. Run around and do some events, or go to another city or something.

Oh no I’m not telling him to stop reporting gold sellers. By all means, report them.

What he should STOP doing is standing glaring at him and giving a minute-by-minute complaint of how long the guy is standing there. Send the report in and go on your way.

I always find it hilarious when people want others to stop reporting gold sellers. It makes me question their motives.

I’m crafting so yes, I am “playing the game.” If you don’t like the reporting feel free to stay out of this thread.

11:50pm est same guy spamming gold in Rata Sum

OK point made with the crafting, but if it pisses you off so much there’s five other cities you can go craft in. You reported him, and we don’t need to hear your minute-by-minute playthrough about how he’s still there.

Then don’t open the thread? What a novel concept…

Report him.
Block him.
Never worry about it again.

Or make a thread on the forums and look like a kitten as you mark the specific time of his continued spamming. Whatever.

12:03am est same guy still spamming his gold selling site.

Glad to see what kind or person you are

BilboBaggins.5620:

I must be one of the lucky ones, I haven’t run into a gold seller yet. Just report them and let ArenaNet take it from there.

LOL that is the entire point. ANET is not taking it from there. If they were I wouldn’t be seeing the same guy spam his gold scamming site all day.

Yes, gold spamming is annoying. Report it, block them, and move on. ANET has a lot of different priorities at the moment and have stated that they are not currently able to address everything within a day.

If you have a fully thought out suggestion on how they can prevent gold spamming, put it in the suggestions forum. Otherwise, a little patience is required.

Chessrook.8643:

OK point made with the crafting, but if it pisses you off so much there’s five other cities you can go craft in. You reported him, and we don’t need to hear your minute-by-minute playthrough about how he’s still there.

Trouble is, spamming occurs in each of the five cities.

About that, I had a question : Which option is better to report gold selling ? Report for spamming, or report for scamming ? I figured that maybe one might be better for Anet to track them down. Some people were saying that spamming should be better, since it just requires to check the channel logs, but well, if they didn’t spam that much, I don’t want my report to backfire at me.

Anyway, I know that Anet must have their hands full with technical issues right now, but I do find very troublesome that not 5 minutes after I join a city, I already see 3 messages in the chat of 3 different gold sellers… Isn’t it possible to filter the chat, and ban every sentence including “www” + “gold” + “cheap” + “fast delivery” + “X$=Xg” ?
It just make me sick thinking that there might actually be people stupid enough to buy gold from external sellers, with all the security issues that come along with it…
And I also fear that in truth, a lot more people than we think use that kind of services. It’s saddening.

I do hope they are able to do something about the gold spammers soon. Almost every time I look at chat or get in-game mail, it’s from someone trying to sell me gold. I haven’t seen this on any MMO in quite a while.

That being said, though, I bought the game to play it. So I report, block, and keep playing.

4 different gold scammer sites are battling for control of Rata Sum now. 2 of the sites have used various accounts to do the spamming. However, 2 of the sites are using the exact same account every time no matter how much they are reported.

My personal favorite last spammed at 1:05am est. Same guy, same account, all day long.

the saddest thing about the gold sellers, and it pains me almost every time i see one, is that you can tell by their names they’re -most of the time- using hacked accounts of actual (former, i guess) players.

i do hope they won’t make enough profit and leave in a few weeks.. but maybe it’s too much to ask of people to stop buying from them.

that makes me wonder, how long do you think will they keep spamming and their business “running” until they need to see some profit? would they already have left by now if no one (or almost no one) bought from them? or do they have like a “grace period” of a month or so?

This is a great use of your time and is in no way spammy or useless. I applaud your efforts to keep the world a safer, quieter place.

Phy.2913:

This is a great use of your time and is in no way spammy or useless. I applaud your efforts to keep the world a safer, quieter place.

Keep encouraging people to close their eyes and ignore problems. The bots and gold farmers thank you.

Sure, if that’s what you interpreted that as, so be it.

Wish they’d make it so reporting someone for spamming also blocks them, it’s just a needless extra step to take.

Freshwater Kangaroo.8962:

Wish they’d make it so reporting someone for spamming also blocks them, it’s just a needless extra step to take.

That’s hopefully one of the things they’re working on, and has been suggested many times.

I just got “infracted” 4 times for this thread. Meanwhile, the gold spammer continues in Rata Sum.

Your priorities are clearly in order Anet.

Spamming a forum is just as annoying to the general public as gold sellers.

Phy.2913:

Spamming a forum is just as annoying to the general public as gold sellers.

That is not what I was infracted for. It says not to make threads of this nature. Apparently Anet has taken your advice. They too are burying their heads in the sand.

Do you like being told repeatedly something you already know? They don’t need you or anyone else telling them every 5 minutes there’s a gold seller at “xyz”. Use the report button and move on.

Phy.2913:

Do you like being told repeatedly something you already know? They don’t need you or anyone else telling them every 5 minutes there’s a gold seller at “xyz”. Use the report button and move on.

Yes they do. The gold seller is still there and they have done nothing to stop them. They apparently do need to be told over and over.

Meanwhile in Rata Sum, the exact same gold scammer is continuing to advertise his site.

No, they don’t need you repeating the same thing. They know it, and it appears they’ve decided they have better things to do, like fixing bugs, then to remove one spammer on one server, whose just going to be back in a couple hours with different name.

Just because YOU don’t like how they handle it doesn’t mean it’s not being handled.

Phy.2913:

No, they don’t need you repeating the same thing. They know it, and it appears they’ve decided they have better things to do, like fixing bugs, then to remove one spammer on one server, whose just going to be back in a couple hours with different name.

Just because YOU don’t like how they handle it doesn’t mean it’s not being handled.

If their stance is to let gold spammers and bots go that’s cool. A dev needs to come tell me that and I’ll stop. Otherwise I will continue. Feel free to not click on this thread to continue defending the gold farmers and bots.

I’m not defending them, I telling you that threads like these are a waste of time and needlessly clutter the forums. If you want to waste your time staring a bot that isn’t staring back so be it, but don’t waste other peoples time.

If people didn’t buy from them it wouldn’t be an issue. I had hoped that the Gems > Gold conversion might stop this. While I have brough around $150 in gems to convert to gold I have noticed the exchange rate for gold is much better from these spammers so I guess people will be tempted by that.

Cazio.2137:

Phy.2913:

No, they don’t need you repeating the same thing. They know it, and it appears they’ve decided they have better things to do, like fixing bugs, then to remove one spammer on one server, whose just going to be back in a couple hours with different name.

Just because YOU don’t like how they handle it doesn’t mean it’s not being handled.

If their stance is to let gold spammers and bots go that’s cool. A dev needs to come tell me that and I’ll stop. Otherwise I will continue. Feel free to not click on this thread to continue defending the gold farmers and bots.

disagreement with your “method” of dealing with the gold sellers is not the same as supporting gold sellers. are you going to have a freakout each and every time you see a gold spam in /map while in rata sum?

just because you don’t see anything happening currently, doesn’t mean nothing is actually being done. you’re wasting your own time and risking a forum ban over 1 guy on 1 server in 1 city. your tirade won’t speed anything up. is your forum posting ability worth so little to you?

Freakachu.5847:

Cazio.2137:

Phy.2913:

No, they don’t need you repeating the same thing. They know it, and it appears they’ve decided they have better things to do, like fixing bugs, then to remove one spammer on one server, whose just going to be back in a couple hours with different name.

Just because YOU don’t like how they handle it doesn’t mean it’s not being handled.

If their stance is to let gold spammers and bots go that’s cool. A dev needs to come tell me that and I’ll stop. Otherwise I will continue. Feel free to not click on this thread to continue defending the gold farmers and bots.

disagreement with your “method” of dealing with the gold sellers is not the same as supporting gold sellers. are you going to have a freakout each and every time you see a gold spam in /map while in rata sum?

just because you don’t see anything happening currently, doesn’t mean nothing is actually being done. you’re wasting your own time and risking a forum ban over 1 guy on 1 server in 1 city. your tirade won’t speed anything up. is your forum posting ability worth so little to you?

If it were different people spamming each time then I would assume something is being done. They are being forced to use different accounts. However that is not the case. These people are using the exact same account which shows nothing is being done to them. In another thread someone posted the same gold spammer had been there for 3 days the one I’m tracking has been there all day today. Yet he isn’t the only one either. I’ve noticed the same names/accounts for numerous gold sellers today.

So yes, they aren’t “handling” anything atm and that is a problem. It isn’t that I “disagree” with how they are handling it, they simply are not handling it. Unless your idea of “handling it” are letting gold spammers do their thing all day.

it proves that they have not yet handled this one particular guy on your server. not that they are not handling anything. look at the archives of the game updates they did just after launch, they listed the numbers of people they banned for it.

the issue is not that they are doing nothing, it is that they aren’t doing something fast enough for you, personally.

The hostility towards Cazio is just stupid, haha. It’s easy to just stop reading this threads if you think it “clutters the forums”.

Weather reporting in good intentions or not, reporting multiple times is considered an abuse of the reporting system and is against the ToS. It could also lead to account suspension and/or account termination.

Can’t they set a timer that determines how long you have to wait before reporting the same account for the same reason again?

Phaze Delta One.2834:

Weather reporting in good intentions or not, reporting multiple times is considered an abuse of the reporting system and is against the ToS. It could also lead to account suspension and/or account termination.

I’ve abused nothing. I have reported someone at different times for the same activity. That is not abuse. Abuse would be reporting someone over and over for the same activity they did at a certain time of day. That is not what I have done.

I do wonder though why you are more interested in having me banned than the gold spammer.

Everytime I have stated in this thread that the guy continues to spam it has been after he did it again. I have screenshots to prove it.

just because you see the same gold spammer advertizing multiple times a day (or over the course of 3 days), doesn’t mean they’re ignoring the problem. aren’t they banning in waves anyway? if you see the same guys still spamming in two weeks, we should be concerned.

Phaze Delta One.2834:

Weather reporting in good intentions or not, reporting multiple times is considered an abuse of the reporting system and is against the ToS. It could also lead to account suspension and/or account termination.

That makes me think I should not forget to block them each time I report a gold seller. Because right now, I don’t, and maybe I’ve been reporting the same guy like 25 times without knowing it was the same account ^^

It would be stupid though, getting banned just because I want to help Anet clean up their game
And for people flamming Cazio, don’t forget that you don’t pay a monthly fee. The only way for Anet to make money once a game has been sold, is through the currency exchange. So actually, gold sellers are quite an important matter. Plus, it contributes to destroy the economy, so don’t complain if the prices are ridiculously low at the TP.

Anyway, Cazio, give Anet a week or two for them to solve their current issues, and resume your crusade by that time if nothing has changed Just keep it cool bro, and try to enjoy the game as much as possible, even though these bloody bots are everywhere :/

I think it needs a certain amount of reports by different people, to ban.
In gw1 it did anyway.

So when you (anyone who is reading) sees a gold spam message, report it too, don’t assume another person will do it. Right click the name, select report, and check “Spamming”.

Nemui.6753:

just because you see the same gold spammer advertizing multiple times a day (or over the course of 3 days), doesn’t mean they’re ignoring the problem. aren’t they banning in waves anyway? if you see the same guys still spamming in two weeks, we should be concerned.

Ever seen how well that approach works in WoW? If not let me tell you, it doesn’t. Trade chat in WoW is as full of gold spammers today as it was years ago, probably more so actually.

So if their solution is to use a system that has proven not to work in another MMO, then I guess the gold advertisers will be here to stay.

In every update the biggest problem has been stolen accounts. People on facebook are constantly talking about their accounts being compromised. Yet while Anet tries to get these people back their accounts, they allow the very sites responsible for this type of theft to advertise in their game. It makes no sense at all. It is like trying to bail water out of the front of a boat while a hole is letting the water back in behind you.

Not to mention that this guy spamming is most likely a stolen account. Why on earth would they allow a compromised account to be used for up to 2 weeks?

To all those saying just keep playing and stop letting it bother you, knock it off. Botters, exploiters and gold sellers all ruin the verisimilitude in these games. That seems to be the most popular feature of this game, so I think the op has a point.