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General Discussion  » BOTS AND GOLD SPAMMERS ... UGH !!!

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nowrnvr

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Posts: 26

 
10/08/09 1:04:42 PM#1

I have played many games in the past and am quite used to gold spammers but this game is totally flooded with them , it takes me about 5 min to block the spam of them when i initially log in each day and then to keep up with the rest of them during the day as they change to new ones is more than frustrating ,  I keep wondering if this is NCsofts way of making additional revenue as there doesn't seem to be much done other than them saying they have removed many of them ,  as a new character coming to this game you can't even ask a question  in any of the channels as its spammed by ... its a fun game but many of the ppl i know are to the point of quiting, I dont believe in purchasing gold to have the best gear i enjoy working for what i have but really when it comes down to it i would rather ppl had a choice to purchase it from the game developer than have to deal with the constand spamming :)

/3 looking for group channel is totally ownd by these guys , good luck filtering through it to find one !!!

Cammy

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Posts: 533

10/08/09 3:58:30 PM#2

oh good.. another one of these posts because we didn't have enough of them /rolleyes

 

Seriously don't be so damn lazy, spend 5 minutes and be spam free for your entire play time... I have done this the last few days and don't even notice the spam anymore (minus the first 5 minutes of crazy click+block)

 

NCSoft recognizes this and is taking steps to address it... its been talked about, over and over and over... search button is your friend. 

Elsabolts

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10/08/09 4:00:37 PM#3

I took care of that problem along with some others, I cancled the subscription.

Jihad works both ways

Giddian

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Posts: 123

10/08/09 4:02:14 PM#4
Originally posted by Cammy

oh good.. another one of these posts because we didn't have enough of them /rolleyes

 

Seriously don't be so damn lazy, spend 5 minutes and be spam free for your entire play time... I have done this the last few days and don't even notice the spam anymore (minus the first 5 minutes of crazy click+block)

 

NCSoft recognizes this and is taking steps to address it... its been talked about, over and over and over... search button is your friend. 


 

Preach it Brother.

 Enough Bitching allready

Sunioj

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Joined: 8/08/09
Posts: 144

10/08/09 4:02:46 PM#5

Cammy, notice the novice status with the poster.  What else would you expect ><

 

LOL

NcSoft has perfected the paid for grindfest, and I am sad because of it :-(

DoomsDay01

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Posts: 229

10/08/09 7:14:57 PM#6
Originally posted by Cammy

oh good.. another one of these posts because we didn't have enough of them /rolleyes

 

Seriously don't be so damn lazy, spend 5 minutes and be spam free for your entire play time... I have done this the last few days and don't even notice the spam anymore (minus the first 5 minutes of crazy click+block)

 

NCSoft recognizes this and is taking steps to address it... its been talked about, over and over and over... search button is your friend. 

 

I have to agree with Cammy. When I log on I almost immediately have to block usually between 8-10 spammers and the most of the rest of my play session is spam free. If I set my self to /anon then I dont get any tell spam either, but oddly enough leaving myself open usually gets me about 3-5 whispers of gold spam a night. Not that I want to see it, but that is not bad at all. I am confident that NCSoft will in fact reduce this but I am also realistic in my expectations that it will never go away. No game has ever accomplished that yet. Heck, look at EQ1. its been around for 10 years. I reactivated my account earlier this year and got spam there when I was playing. So, no, I dont expect it to ever be gone, but it can at least be more manageable than what it is now and I think we will see improvements soon.

Timzilla

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Posts: 119

10/08/09 9:45:42 PM#7
Originally posted by Elsabolts

I took care of that problem along with some others, I cancled the subscription.

Jihad works both ways


 

Ditto. Everyone I know did the same. Will be curious to see how small Aion gets on day 31.

Kaocan

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Joined: 8/18/09
Posts: 309

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10/08/09 9:57:44 PM#8
Originally posted by Cammy

oh good.. another one of these posts because we didn't have enough of them /rolleyes

 

Seriously don't be so damn lazy, spend 5 minutes and be spam free for your entire play time... I have done this the last few days and don't even notice the spam anymore (minus the first 5 minutes of crazy click+block)

 

NCSoft recognizes this and is taking steps to address it... its been talked about, over and over and over... search button is your friend. 

 

Cammy FTW!!!

Guillermo197

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Joined: 2/21/06
Posts: 1841

10/09/09 3:27:41 AM#9
Originally posted by Timzilla
Originally posted by Elsabolts

I took care of that problem along with some others, I cancled the subscription.

Jihad works both ways


 

Ditto. Everyone I know did the same. Will be curious to see how small Aion gets on day 31.


 

And I will be too soon. I give them two more weeks till my 30 days are up, but after the Lineage 2 debacle, I have not much hope to be honest.

The spam doesn't even bother me too much. As what some already said. I spend 1 minute each day coming into the game to block a handful of spammers and then the rest of the playing session is pretty much spamfree.

It's the amount of botters that are totally out of control!

At the moment you cannot go anywhere without running into one. They are all over the place!

Cantas Coast in Verteron for example. When you go there, there are a dozen Kinah Farming bots per channel alone already!! Farming there for many days on end already! Nothing is been done.

Seriously tho,

I love PVP. But I rather go back to EQ2 or LOTRO and play a decent western developed PVE MMO game, then a poorly handled PVP MMO that is filled with botters and cheaters.

If NC doesn't get off their high horse soon. Then AION will be the first polished, decent, fun MMO to tank within the first month (or two) due to sheer incompetency.

Cheers

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Leucent

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Posts: 1325

10/09/09 3:35:56 AM#10

I couldn t wait to cancel to be honest.

Xasapis

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Posts: 2612

10/09/09 3:45:42 AM#11
Originally posted by Leucent

I couldn t wait to cancel to be honest.

Did you even subscribe to begin with?

EricDanie

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Joined: 2/10/05
Posts: 938

10/09/09 3:53:12 AM#12

Spam is the smallest problem in my opinion... they're currently so slow to ban spammers that after blocking the initial batch everyday, you'll see few new ones during your playtime.

Sharing spawns with a bot that you see daily and you reported more than a week ago, now that's when your patience will be truly tested...

Obidom

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Posts: 352

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10/09/09 3:59:29 AM#13

got a CE sitting on my desk in its crinkle wrapping, No I dea when I will install this game, everyone I know is too busy on FE to bother with AION atm

 

 

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teco221

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Posts: 297

10/09/09 4:01:46 AM#14
Originally posted by Xasapis
Originally posted by Leucent

I couldn t wait to cancel to be honest.

Did you even subscribe to begin with?

 

Why do you have to wait to cancel it?  It's very simple and easy. 

Pocahinha

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Joined: 7/14/09
Posts: 125

10/09/09 4:05:16 AM#15

Fixing spam takes 2 seconds...select tab options..deselect /3 or   /LFG its done...you cant see lfg channel anymore so...no spam...theres other channels, and ways of getting a party

mikepatson

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Joined: 6/23/09
Posts: 40

10/09/09 5:42:23 AM#16

At least they are aware of the gold spam.

www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/255054/page/2

I seem to remember that WoW had similar problems to Aion in the beginning, especially regards to servers. I think because we're so used to WoW and how quickly Blizzard rose to the the market leader in that respect, we're less forgiving of other games that just start up.

 

Nicoo

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Joined: 8/13/06
Posts: 165

10/09/09 5:55:49 AM#17

LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!

Its a fucking mmorpg. Wait.. Goldspammers and bots in an mmo... Wait what? When did that happend?
Lmao fkin retards the whole bunch.
 

Guillermo197

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Joined: 2/21/06
Posts: 1841

10/09/09 7:02:49 AM#18
Originally posted by Nicoo

LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!LMAO!

Its a fucking mmorpg. Wait.. Goldspammers and bots in an mmo... Wait what? When did that happend?
Lmao fkin retards the whole bunch.
 


 

Go log into any Western P2P MMO, look around.

Then go log into AION or Lineage 2, look around.

Then come back here and tell me who is the fkin retard.

You clearly have no clue what you are talking about man.

Cheers

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gamerstuff

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10/09/09 7:36:13 AM#19

I'd hate to add to the redundancy of these posts. But I was on the Yustiel server near pilgrims respite trying to raise my gathering skil. So me being a chanter and all I decide to give one of the guys in the field a boost of health and some buffs.

 

OMG OMG

I looked at the guy next to him in the field and there is Kfdz fighting four mobs consecutively and resting. Guess what, so was the guy "Charat" doing the same thing. I never noticed they were bots before. I then went to Cantas coast to gather some Veneras meat and there is good ol "Ironlegs" (no wonder he didn't respond)  i saw from last night and asked to join my legion. Guess what he is a bot. So was "pentagon" , "Cheapshotts", "Yaapy" and some others. I was getting a little pissy so i decided to just switch channels from 1 to 3. just to cool down and continue my play alone. Well, just guess what i found in channel 3...

I can deal with the spammers and that is already pushing it. But This whole botter thing is beyond agitating.  I really like the game and it would be the perfect mmo for me but damn is it hard to find the perfect mmo. There is always something wrong, and its they are never good enough. Here is hoping that it gets resolved soon. I didn't believe it would happen to this game like what i thought to be trolls were saying but since release this problem has only increased. I'm starting to believe (sadly) the whole "this will be like lineage 2 botting" comments. 

Working on it

Timzilla

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Joined: 10/11/04
Posts: 119

10/09/09 8:06:34 AM#20

I think we might have a little more patience if NCSoft would have dealt with the same problem in L2. But given their track record of supporting RMT and cheaters there, and their current do nothing approach here, there' s not much room for optimism.

drel

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Joined: 8/09/09
Posts: 282

10/09/09 8:10:02 AM#21
Originally posted by gamerstuff

I'd hate to add to the redundancy of these posts. But I was on the Yustiel server near pilgrims respite trying to raise my gathering skil. So me being a chanter and all I decide to give one of the guys in the field a boost of health and some buffs.

 

OMG OMG

I looked at the guy next to him in the field and there is Kfdz fighting four mobs consecutively and resting. Guess what, so was the guy "Charat" doing the same thing. I never noticed they were bots before. I then went to Cantas coast to gather some Veneras meat and there is good ol "Ironlegs" (no wonder he didn't respond)  i saw from last night and asked to join my legion. Guess what he is a bot. So was "pentagon" , "Cheapshotts", "Yaapy" and some others. I was getting a little pissy so i decided to just switch channels from 1 to 3. just to cool down and continue my play alone. Well, just guess what i found in channel 3...

I can deal with the spammers and that is already pushing it. But This whole botter thing is beyond agitating.  I really like the game and it would be the perfect mmo for me but damn is it hard to find the perfect mmo. There is always something wrong, and its they are never good enough. Here is hoping that it gets resolved soon. I didn't believe it would happen to this game like what i thought to be trolls were saying but since release this problem has only increased. I'm starting to believe (sadly) the whole "this will be like lineage 2 botting" comments. 


 

It would be nice if there was a reward system and ability to kill "bots". As to the continual advertising, I know NcSoft is working on the problem, but the problem still exists making it almost impossible to talk or see what is going on with other players.

Distaste

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Joined: 10/03/06
Posts: 463

10/09/09 9:02:51 AM#22
Originally posted by Timzilla
Originally posted by Elsabolts

I took care of that problem along with some others, I cancled the subscription.

Jihad works both ways


 

Ditto. Everyone I know did the same. Will be curious to see how small Aion gets on day 31.

 

It's going to get real small real quick. Spam, Bots, and grind are what killed the game. Outside of Beluslan on Lumiel there are always at least 50 bots running around. Also nothing like seeing those stacks of 1k resources on the AH for dirt cheap prices brought to you by asfwef!

Guillermo197

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Joined: 2/21/06
Posts: 1841

10/09/09 9:07:34 AM#23
Originally posted by Distaste
Originally posted by Timzilla
Originally posted by Elsabolts

I took care of that problem along with some others, I cancled the subscription.

Jihad works both ways


 

Ditto. Everyone I know did the same. Will be curious to see how small Aion gets on day 31.

 

It's going to get real small real quick. Spam, Bots, and grind are what killed the game. Outside of Beluslan on Lumiel there are always at least 50 bots running around. Also nothing like seeing those stacks of 1k resources on the AH for dirt cheap prices brought to you by asfwef!


 

On my server EU Gorgos we had always very long queues.

Last monday we still had a queue of about 2 hours.

Last night (3 days later) the queue is down to about 40 minutes.

While on the other hand, over the course of the last couple days I have seen a vast increase of botters on my server.

Do the math.

When www met dot , they then stumbled upon Secret Society , wich happened to be a Guild , wich in turn told dot about the net .

Spankthetoad

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Posts: 26

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10/09/09 9:30:05 AM#24

I can live with the Gold Spammers as i just block them but the issue of the bots is another story.  It is so out of control now that i give up.  I am getting out of Aion.  I really like the game alot and it is a very polished game.  The pvp is very well done and the people playing seem to be very nice but its to the point where it is so over run now with bots that you cannot get anything done any more.  So its 4th down and long and i punt this game.  I am really sorry to see it get so out of control and its going to take a long time to get it fixed. 

Spankthetoad

reploidx

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Posts: 114

10/09/09 9:32:27 AM#25

My g/f was running in Aion yesterday and saw a handful of bots that was in the same area all week, and from what i heard, the original game in Korea has a few servers just full of botters.

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