Curse

hurric · Feb 13, 2008, 08:13 AM // 08:13

ok as soon as I join in Kamadan I get this

so I say fine this is not the first time a bot has messaged me to buy gold. I'm going to repot and then:

if this is not bad enough for A.Net to take action, I don't know what is.

mr_groovy · Feb 13, 2008, 08:16 AM // 08:16

/report then /ignore.

Keep repeating that till they are gone

hurric · Feb 13, 2008, 08:17 AM // 08:17

check my 2nd image. I can NOT report.

Uber Mass · Feb 13, 2008, 08:32 AM // 08:32

disable any form of chat on trials kthx

sevendash · Feb 13, 2008, 08:33 AM // 08:33

Report worked for me the first time, but more come eventually. It's rather annoying.

ArTy · Feb 13, 2008, 08:35 AM // 08:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Uber Mass

disable any form of chat on trials kthx

A workable solution, who needs chat to trial a game anyway? I hate that spam site so much. What ever happened to our guru DDoS attack on em?

Esan · Feb 13, 2008, 09:16 AM // 09:16

There have been threads on this before and Gaile has said that whispers will not be disabled on trial accounts. The responsible thing to do then would be either to add certain gold sites to a server-side blacklist such that they can not be sent in text at all, or allow users to filter messages. But GW1 has been end-of-lifed and I doubt they are going to waste any more programmer time on it. Hope that GW2 does it better.

Yayo Goldigger · Feb 13, 2008, 09:39 AM // 09:39

Well, after being spammed constantly I'm sick of it too. So I'm sending them 10 emails per hour, and as soon as the support person accepts my msn request, they'll be spammed as much as possible until they block me.

Steboy93 · Feb 13, 2008, 09:40 AM // 09:40

Blocking chat on trials could be a start.

Martin Alvito · Feb 13, 2008, 09:44 AM // 09:44

Removing the trials would also work if recoding them is too much effort. I'm sure marketing likes the trials, but I seriously doubt that they drive much business 3 years after release.

Evaine · Feb 13, 2008, 10:05 AM // 10:05

I started a new character in Factions tonight and as soon as I got to the monastery in AD1 I got a whisper for the same web site. Of course the sender wasn't in the same district so I added the name to my ignore list.

I also saw a stream of bots hit the Xunlai Agent, move slightly to the storage vault and then vanish. While that was going on, several more would run up the stairs to see Togo I guess.

Business as usual in the Monastery.

Grasping Darkness · Feb 13, 2008, 10:14 AM // 10:14

The bots would come to an end quickly if they would make me a GM

Oh it would be glorious to zone back and forth between shing jea and temple of balth with gw nukem bots button

Kahlindra · Feb 13, 2008, 10:15 AM // 10:15

You still could've sent those screenshots to support via the old-school method, i.e. through the support section of the official website. Sure it's slower than /report, but you had time to put them on a hosting site and make this thread.

The couple I get a day I send over to support in this way. You can't catch them in the same district.

Evaine · Feb 13, 2008, 10:23 AM // 10:23

I just did a Who Is search to see what info there is about who owns the domain and followed a link to one of their sites. The following quote appears on one of them:

"Due to increasing fraud activities in this business, now we don't accept echeck, unconfirmed address and unverified account with paypal anymore,If your orders are above 50$, please choose other payment method."

There's fraud in their business?

Tullzinski · Feb 13, 2008, 12:27 PM // 12:27

Soon they will be promoting some porno site, just like it used to be in Diablo. Report em or ignore em, take your pick. Anyone know a simple way to report bots? Maybe should be a sticky at some point.

Pleikki · Feb 13, 2008, 12:39 PM // 12:39

Report doesnt work some of em an many trial keys.

LeoX · Feb 13, 2008, 01:02 PM // 13:02

I've never had problems with bots PMing me, but yesterday i got 5 bots PMing. I'll keep them on ignore for a while till they "forget" about me, hopefully.

Navaros · Feb 13, 2008, 01:07 PM // 13:07

Answer to question of the thread title: forever.

Unless Anet disables chat abilities on trial accounts.

cebalrai · Feb 13, 2008, 01:13 PM // 13:13

This is total crap. I'm on the friends list not of an individual bot, but a whole network of botting gold sellers. I get PMs from gibberish-named bot gold sellers *when I'm in a zone*! I ignore then, then another one PMs me. It happens every 10 minutes, sometimes more, sometimes less.

My ignore list is maxed out with bots that PM me so I can't even ignore them anymore. Can't report them because 1) they're stupid free trial accounts that recycle instantly, and 2) because they're usually not in my zone.

Ugh, I'm tired of this bunk....

Yol · Feb 13, 2008, 01:28 PM // 13:28

They don't need to disable chat channel access on trial key accounts, as it wouldn't help genuine players who are trying trial keys.

What they should do, if possible, is give us the option to disable the receipt of PM's from trial key account characters. Maybe an option in the f11 window. If I can choose not to receive PM's from trial key accounts, I won't be receiving the gold-selling messages. The problem with the current chat system is that the ignore list is too short to block all the bots, and the only way to ensure I don't receive them is to go 'offline' or 'do not disturb', both of which stop genuine players from contacting me.
It also gets around the problem of cross-district reporting.