Guild Wars 2

guyvernk.4786:

Pleasure make special option “Gold seller” in petition form.

There is man. On the ingame reporting system.

Once you pull up in-game support (through options), and choose REPORT, there is a GOLD SPAMMER option. Also you can just do this in game, right click the name of the gold seller in MAP CHAT, and hit REPORT, GOLD SELLER.

Easy as hell, and well worth doing. If everyone did this we’d really help remove this problem that is seriously destroying this game. If you don’t think it is, just try turning any real profit using the TP and tell me that GW2 has a viable economy.

Leeain.2431:

Want to fight against the gold sellers?
well… sell your gold at a price less than them!

If you keep to sell the gold at that price, and a chinese farmer will give us the same things 3 times cheaper, i’m not surprised if some players prefere third-party gold sellers!

10gold = 5 dollars
No more gold sellers. Trust me.

That’s not a solution. That would inflate the economy with tons of gold, as then more people (who choose not to buy illegally), would buy gold. This would make the value of everyone’s gold lower and hurt everyone. Also, the farmers could always just lower their price too to stay competitive. So then what, does Anet just keeping lowering their price until we can buy 20g for $1, where everyone in the game just buys their gold?

The only solution is to perm. terminate accounts of people who’ve been xfered gold from confirmed gold sellers (people who buy gold from 3rd parties should get insta-perma-banned. This is easy to do as they have logs of all the gold xfer’s and when they confirm and terminate these gold sellers, seeing who’s bought gold from them is easy as pie.

I am extremely active in reporting both “botters” (ones I’ve watched for a while and am 99.9% sure are botting), and also reporting “gold spammers” in map chat. I am really glad to hear that Anet is taking this seriously, and perm. terminating these accounts. My only issue with this is if Anet is only working one side of the issue (the sellers). It alone will not stop the problem, as the gold sellers will simply make new accounts. It’s worth it for them, as any profit over the $60 purchase price of the game with that account turns a profit, and if it gets banned after that, well… still a profit.

My question is, what is being done to the accounts of people who BUY illegal gold from 3rd parties gold sellers? Are those accounts being perm. terminated too?

Because the best way to stop gold sellers realistically is to make the risk way too high vs the reward, and scare people away from buying illegally. If the gold sellers have no customers, then they have no reason to “bot” gold and loot.

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