Before the megaserver update I had never received a spam whisper, not a single one. Now i get them almost every 5 minutes, its so frequent I have to turn whispers off completely or sit there for an hour reporting 18 different people. I don’t know if anything can be done about it but it really messes up the messaging system!
Don’t only report. Block as well. This is not only stemming from the megaserver, this is also the fact that there was a sale, and the botters and gold sellers bought quite a lot of new accounts, I’m sure.
I seem to only get spam until after I visit the heart of the mists. It appears most of the bots hang out there, and being that it is mega server’d and the popularity of PvP now… it makes it easy to spam people.
Last night before work I loaded into the keep and was spammed whispered by gold sellers in hour i say 10 times. this is getting crazy. I have never bought gold from any site. I only buy from guild wars or buy gem cards from game stop. and I have blocked and reported them all. Just hope that they dont ban me for reporting so much lol
As far as I know, they steal accounts via email spam posts and probably from the people who make the mistake of buying gold/items from them.
Seeing as a lot of the accounts I have blocked are along the lines of advkjfhs.####, at least most of what I have seen have been bought accounts for the express purpose of botting and gold selling. I have very few actual names on my block list.
There are about a thousand of these threads on the forums. There were 4 of them on the front page when I first replied to this one. They really need to make a sticky so we don’t see so many of them. Same with mounts and capes.
It’s only happens after joining the Mists…But gold sellers must have to buy the game xD so +profit for Anet and easy ban for them and then rebuy the game
It’s only happens after joining the Mists…But gold sellers must have to buy the game xD so +profit for Anet and easy ban for them and then rebuy the game
If you are being whispered by an account with a non gibberish name, it means the account was “hacked”. So the players that they are banning are actually legitimate customers who lack common security measures. They actually end up losing money, because they have to unban their account and pay someone to restore those items.
If you are reading this topic, do not be the guy who uses the same password for e-mail and their video game you are just asking for trouble. All it takes it to steal a GW2 account, use the exact same password for e-mail and approve the request to log in.
There are way too many uneducated users in regards to computing security that the gold sellers have thousands of accounts at their disposal.
In other times I would say ‘’They deserved what they got for greed and stupidity’’ but this starts to be a major cause in every mmorpg and just nobody can do a thing…
The only thing many games can do against is that suggesting/informing players on Loading screens(In many games some loads take 1-2 minutes) about that things.In Gw2 my loading time in better days are 20-30 second,in worst 1-2 minutes I would be grateful for some suggestions about game,security etc.
Yeah, I hadn’t gotten one since returning but now that MegaServer is fully operational, they come pretty frequently. What’s sad is they’re not even normal bot names; they’re legible names, which means some people were pretty silly with their account security.
“Quaggan will kick your tail so hard it slaps you in the face!” – Willoo
I haven’t received one gold spammer whisper since the Mega-servers started. It is more than likely people who went to new games used the same password/username and got scammed out of that information.
It have nothing to do with megaservers and everything to do with people not using common sense.
The forum is not the place for such issues to be discussed.
If you witness any of Gold Selling while playing, please report them using the in-game ticketing system so our Customer Support team can properly investigate the issue.
