General Discussion

On his personal blog, Mythic Entertainment GM and VP Mark Jacobs writes his feelings on Gold Sellers. Personally, I think he's holding back. How doyou REALLY feel, Mark?

I hate gold sellers/spammers. No, that’s not strong enough, let me try again. I HATE GOLD SELLERS WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING. Ah, that’s better. Now, why do I hate them you may ask? I hate them for a number of reasons, most of which have been detailed in various interviews I’ve done over the years. And now that they have taken their obnoxiousness to new levels with gold service spamming, I HATE GOLD SPAMMERS EVEN MORE NOW THAN EVER BEFORE. For years, lowlifes like IGE have told us, in defense of their behavior, that they a) are just providing a service; b) don’t interfere with players enjoyment of the game. Well, I can’t argue with (a), they are providing a service, just like maggots I suppose but I’ve always argued that (b) is totally and complete BS. Now, those old arguments aside, I can’t see how this new generation of pond scum (new and improved, with 25% more scummy action!) can argue that their constant spamming of chat channels doesn’t interfere with players enjoyment of the game (I’m waiting for the whole “Oh, you can always just turn off chat” argument). I hated seeing their messages when I played WoW or any other MMO and I’ve been waiting for the day that WAR launched so I could have the absolute pleasure of instituting policies to make their lives more difficult so we could drive them out of WAR.

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They've been very good about getting rid of them. I was getting spammed//tells last night from them and they got rid of them within 20minutes of each petition and always wrote the automatic "thank you its been received" prompt. 3 Petitions for 3 of them and all were gone within 20 minutes.

It's nice to see for a change I've been in too many mmo's where they just ignore them.

MJ is my new hero

hooray for mythic !....finally someone take care of these guys....LOL llook at me...I'm saying this but I did buy Adenaz in Lineage2

but I rly hope they will be able to get ride of the gold spammers

but my main concern about WAR is the pirate servers I do not know when they will open but they will 1 day or another and when it comes mythic will have to react

Now thats passion!

Good job Mythic, keep up that awesome attitude!

Hmm maybe  you could keep a few of the gold farmers characters and utilize the empty stockades with them? Would be fun to throw a few rotten vegetables at them when passing by.

Originally posted by Taranx

Now thats passion!

Good job Mythic, keep up that awesome attitude!

Hmm maybe  you could keep a few of the gold farmers characters and utilize the empty stockades with them? Would be fun to throw a few rotten vegetables at them when passing by.

lol this would be truly epic, or have their bodies strung up on the trees, like you see now?

Right on!!!

By the way, you guys at Mythic made one Kick Ass game!

This goes to show that mythic is not blizzard and they are about providing a good game not making as much money as possible (blizzard).

This is so easy to do and cuts inflation massivly.

Got a tell from my 1st gold spammer last evening on Tor Archere and thought jeez now these guys we will have to put up with....after reading this blog I am happy to see they are handling this with the same level of aggression as the godless gold spammers.

    Can we put their characters in the stocks I see all over the towns in game? Just lable them spammers and we can laugh.  I look forward to reading my 1st broadcast that a spammer has been cast out.

Good game and good management. Funcom are you watching how it's done? Never mind too late for those dude. Great work Mythic :)

Originally posted by Jetrpg

This goes to show that mythic is not blizzard and they are about providing a good game not making as much money as possible (blizzard).

This is so easy to do and cuts inflation massivly.

Was there any need to bring up YOUR opinions on blizzard in this post? Blizzard bans gold sellers all the time.  not as easy to monitor 4.5million players (WoW western players) vs WARs 300,000 or so.  Also WARs chat channels are empty unlikes wows so its easier to spot and report spammers.

In the first 5 weeks of WoW release they banned 18,000 accounts http://www.joystiq.com/2005/12/22/blizzard-bans-more-wow-accounts/ and they have continued to do so.

In May 2006 alone blizzard banned 30,000 accounts http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060612-7033.html

In October 2006 Blizzard ban 76,000 accounts