Curse

MSecorsky · Oct 20, 2005, 06:33 PM // 18:33

If ANet wouldn't mind sharing a little power, I'd enjoy (I have a part-time devious mind) hunting down and banning those accounts myself for a half-hour/hour every evening or two.

Shoot, I'd do it for free, just to keep this game from being Diablo-ized.

Alex, Gaile... you reading this?

Sagius Truthbarron · Oct 20, 2005, 06:39 PM // 18:39

"Congratulations on 100M GW golds sold per day!!Cheap gold $.99/1000k On SALE!!! go2 http://www.cheese.com!!"
"rofl"
"I better check out cheese.com.."
'HOW MUCH DO THEY PAY YOU TO DO THIS!?!?!"
"I might have reported you if I didn't see the cheese."
"I HOPE U DY!!"

Yeah.. Always report the people who tease.

Knight of Eternal Darknes · Oct 20, 2005, 06:45 PM // 18:45

i've seen them around in a lot of places, i just ignore them i can care less on what they're doing as long as they leave me alone i can care less, but the thing i do hate is those b!tches that report people for like bad conduct like swearing most of the time if your in an arguement with people like them who they report you are the ones who usually start it, i think there's just to many narks in guildwars

stumpy · Oct 20, 2005, 06:55 PM // 18:55

they are called botters ... they farm cash and sell it for real life money like ige ... I see them in tombs now too ... just spamming away like every 45 seconds ... I am act5ually surprised that Anet is losing the bot battle (imo Alex) to these guys. Especially after there last interview about farming. I am sure Anet will eventually gain the upper hand in this bot battle, but in the mean time its unfortunate that the community has to put up with these marketers ... next step we will see porn ads and then pow, game over.

If you catch them spamming it just take a screenshot and send it to Anet, they will ban there accounts.

for example ... I saw virgoods.com spamming with a guy named "bot one two" kinda gives it away in his name, but i never screen capped it because I had more important thing to attend to ... (1 handed healing random pugs thrpugh thunderhead keep ... a challenge set by my guild to me) *chuckle*

MSecorsky · Oct 20, 2005, 07:13 PM // 19:13

It would be nice if distracting shot worked on spambots in town. Although I'd never get anything else done...

Sereng Amaranth · Oct 20, 2005, 07:24 PM // 19:24

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Originally Posted by stumpy

...but i never screen capped it because I had more important thing to attend to ... (1 handed healing random pugs thrpugh thunderhead keep ... a challenge set by my guild to me) *chuckle*

hey Hexin

check out my thread...
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=71333

Ole Man Bourbon · Oct 20, 2005, 09:12 PM // 21:12

You'd think they'd but an internal chat filter on to flag certain words and characters, like "virgoods" and "$," then send a CSR right to the scene of the crime to inspect.

dont feel no pain · Oct 20, 2005, 10:48 PM // 22:48

LOL whenever i see virgoods i curse my ass off at them it;s quite funny
like this :---- OFF U MOTHER ------- DIKHEAD ----HEAD GAME ------- ----- OF CRACKHEAD ----VILE I SHOULD SHOVE THE PLATS UP YOUR ---

lol everyone laughs when i do it and i even out spam the virgoods for a laugh but they usualy win

stumpy · Oct 20, 2005, 11:12 PM // 23:12

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Originally Posted by Sereng Amaranth

hey Hexin

check out my thread...
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=71333

heh ... I checked it out, thank you for your compliments ... but the group only won cause of the team, you played a key role at a critical moment and may have saved a costly error when the king got into the middle of the fray<? mix of things ...

Esrever · Oct 21, 2005, 02:11 AM // 02:11

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Originally Posted by MSecorsky

It would be nice if distracting shot worked on spambots in town.

Distracting Shot doesn't work on shouts. Arcane Theivery is a much better choice in that situation.

Anyways, I hope A-net thinks of a solution before this gets out of hand.

Diestro · Oct 21, 2005, 03:29 AM // 03:29

The truely sad thing is, for them to have a service like this, and create all those accounts to do in-game advertising, they actually have to have a decent sized clientelle. I will never, ever, understand why someone would pay real money, for game money/eq that is FREE! The only thing you have to spend to get it is time. If these people buying this stuff have that much money to throw away, throw a little to your left so I can grab some. I'm sure I can find a helluva lot better ways to spend it.

Saerden · Oct 21, 2005, 06:43 AM // 06:43

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Originally Posted by Diestro

The only thing you have to spend to get it is time.

Time is money. 1h = 10$ for most, 1h = 200$ for some. "Time" (better the work you can do in this amount of time) is the most important thing, oil is nothing more then liquid "time" (or better work).

So let me make a calculation:
UAS costs from 300 (the amount of mindless grind hours)*10$ (the amount you could make "grinding" at some medicore job) = 3000$ to 3000*10$ if you would do an MCJob instead. Buying a fully unlocked account for 500$ leaves you with 2500$ profit AT WORST.
Note that even in places with few jobs, time can still be spend to search for good deals, lowered prices, good insurance or just education, which increases your chances to get a better job.

banishd · Oct 21, 2005, 07:10 AM // 07:10

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Originally Posted by dont feel no pain

LOL whenever i see virgoods i curse my ass off at them it;s quite funny
like this :---- OFF U MOTHER ------- DIKHEAD ----HEAD GAME ------- ----- OF CRACKHEAD ----VILE I SHOULD SHOVE THE PLATS UP YOUR ---

lol everyone laughs when i do it and i even out spam the virgoods for a laugh but they usualy win

What makes you better then the spammers then?
If you think cussing at a Bot is funny, Sorry but you need to get out more.

Zonzai · Oct 21, 2005, 08:18 AM // 08:18

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Originally Posted by Aracos79

Who unmutes their general chat in towns anymore anyway? :P

Exactly.

=HT=Ingram · Oct 21, 2005, 08:19 AM // 08:19

I have been reporting them as fast as I find them... I encourage others to do the same. and they are also monitoring logs of their current stomping grounds.

From: GM Moggie & GM Jason ArenaNet Support

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Hello Ingram,

Thank you again for reporting this incident to the Guild Wars Support Team.

We have reviewed the game logs of this incident and taken the appropriate action based on the information from the logs. As previously indicated, due to our Privacy Policy (http://www.guildwars.com/privacy.html), we will not be able to provide any additional information regarding this report. That is to say, we cannot reveal what action, if any, was taken, nor if the actual violation was confirmed. However, please be assured that the Guild Wars team takes EULA and Rules of Conduct violations very seriously. We are dedicated to maintaining an enjoyable playing environment. Because the incident that you report has been handled by the Guild Wars team, we are now setting this incident to a "Closed" status.

Thanks again for submitting your report.

Regards,

The Guild Wars Support Team

How to report a violation.. OFFICIAL...

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If you encounter any players who you believe violate our guidelines with inappropriate actions, vulgar language, offensive character or guild names, advertising of cheats or exploits, or any breaches of our End User License Agreement (EULA) or Rules of Conduct, we'd like to know about it. Please note the details of the situation and use our online help tool's "Ask a Question" form at http://support.guildwars.com to send us details of the violation.

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The name of the character being reported
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We will use the information you have provided to investigate whether a violation of the rules has occurred. If we do find any rules have been broken, we will take action.

However, due to our Privacy Policy (http://www.guildwars.com/privacy.html), we will not be able to provide you with any details of the investigation. This means that we will not be able to confirm if any action was, or was not, taken. This is because all information related to the discovery and disciplining of an account will only be discussed between the violator and customer support.

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Lastly. add them to your friends list.. I know like Why would I do that right? well its nice to see when they ban the account, as the current privacy policy prevents them telling you if they actually did so. but when you see their account change to (BANNED)... guess what? you just got a confirmation...

Thanks for helping keep the community free of RoC breakers...

=HT=Ingram.

RTSFirebat · Oct 21, 2005, 08:43 AM // 08:43

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Originally Posted by Saerden

Time is money. 1h = 10$ for most, 1h = 200$ for some. "Time" (better the work you can do in this amount of time) is the most important thing, oil is nothing more then liquid "time" (or better work).

So let me make a calculation:
UAS costs from 300 (the amount of mindless grind hours)*10$ (the amount you could make "grinding" at some medicore job) = 3000$ to 3000*10$ if you would do an MCJob instead. Buying a fully unlocked account for 500$ leaves you with 2500$ profit AT WORST.
Note that even in places with few jobs, time can still be spend to search for good deals, lowered prices, good insurance or just education, which increases your chances to get a better job.

Basically you summed it up right there... people buy gold off eBay and companies like this made spammer since not everyone has all the time in the world.

I for example work 40 hours a week, leaving me about 2 hours to play the game if I'm lucky... so based on the fact it would take 300 hours to get all skills unlocked that means it would take me about 150 days of playing this game every day for 2 hours to unlock it. This isn't taking mindless farming, PvP/GvG and PvE into account as well.

I hate how people say... "Why buy gold? Just farm"... not everyone is unemployeed, in school, able to play at work, or just plain has more free time then others.

I have little gold in this game since I don't have 6 free hours a day to farm for items to sell... and I have a life

So while I do agree that buying gold is now against the rules and wrong... I think I understand why people buy it... afterall some of us have better things to do in our time then play this game 16 hours a day.

zidane888 · Oct 21, 2005, 12:26 PM // 12:26

you couldn't pay me 1000k to go to that site, screams"keylogger" to me.

Charcoal Ann · Oct 21, 2005, 12:47 PM // 12:47

i actually met a guy ingame (whilst i was extracting the urine from the spambot) who had tried to buy money from this site.
he said that they didn't deliver the money. he still seems to have his account though.

aron searle · Oct 21, 2005, 12:53 PM // 12:53

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he said that they didn't deliver the money. he still seems to have his account though.

"possibly" because hes still in game, and you cant log in twice.

lyra_song · Oct 21, 2005, 01:28 PM // 13:28

We need a quick report system in game, to report things like this instantly. T_T