Or have they? Recently, I logged back into GW2 to get a little playtime in before my daily routine. My usual experience after logging in is quickly IDing the gold sellers/powerlevelers, putting them on my block list and promptly reporting them under the tag of Scamming. Before the lastest patch scanning the options on their list  included:

• Botting
• Inappropriate Character Name
• Spamming
• Verbal Abuse
• Scamming

They have quitely added Selling Gold to that list. And honestly I don't know the reason for a need to change what was already in place. Personally to me, selling gold IS scamming. But it could possibly mean one of several things:

• Data mining for an actual percentage of gold sellers reported
• Downgrading the priority of gold selling reports
• To seperate scammers (account farming) from gold sellers
• Upgrading the priority of actual scamming reports

And what could be the reason for the concern now? Could it be that selling gold is undercutting the cash shop now? And by undercutting I mean players are skipping gems all together for purchasing gold directly because it's far cheaper than exchanging gems to gold. Or could it mean that account farming is a bigger issue that needs more attention for now? For me I just think that Scamming was a better fit for these gold sellers and powerlevelers, because both are basically scamming the system in place. And now that I think about it, you could see this in two ways:

1. The glass is half empty (ArenaNET is doing this for their own benefit)
2. The glass is half full (ArenaNET is doing this to help their playerbase)

If I'm not mistaken, Anet said to report gold users as "Spamming" before.

Good thing they added a new category.

IMO Anet simply wasn't prepared to the level of attention the game would be attracting dispite all the talks of wanting to be number 1. Even after having 1 million beta signups in 48 hours and having 1 million pre-purchases, GW2 is most likely 2 to 3 times bigger than GW1 ever was.

"A wise man has something to say, But a fool just has to say something." 

Practice what you preach.

A lot of people were actually confused about what to list the goldselling as in their reports. Some said scamming thinking like you, others spamming, which is what it actually is, because they're spamming the messages over and over, and others thought botting, because they're likely not actual people sending the messages.

It's not exactly a scam because they're selling you something and actually following through. A scam would be them taking your money and giving you nothing in return.

Botting is just an assumption, and bottng is meant for people that are just leveling in one area non-stop witha program telling the character to shoot at stuff or whatever, while the actual player isn't playing.

But glad they cleared it up so more people will put it in the right category.

How is selling gold a scam? 

Scam:n.
A fraudulent business scheme; a swindle.

tr.v., scammed, scam·ming, scams.
To defraud; swindle.

Originally posted by spitfire1064

"A wise man has something to say, But a fool just has to say something." 

 

Practice what you preach.

+1

BTW I have noticed that when I get GS mails the names of the GS aren't the usual "ghfgf" and so on like at launch. They "seem" to be real names. Makes me wonder how many hacked accounts there really are out there. I ALMOST feel sorry reporting them.

A little bit of both.

Of course they don't want third parties selling gold, that's just common sense. But also i don't think it's particularly why they added the gold sales option to the report feature (which I agree completely). Scamming can refer to two things, one is scamming for comercial gain (gold or account selling, poweleveling) or in-game scamming (receiving materials to craft something and running away, for example). Both could fall in the same category, but the severity and punishment are completely different, so it makes sense to put them on separate categories in the reporting tool.

Also, if you check the oficial forums, the bots are one of the big things that people are complaining about, and bots are almost always associated with gold selling, so I guess they're trying to take a stronger stance against both.

Not worth voting on your silly loaded choices."Scamming" has to do with cons usually seen in 1:1 trading. "Spamming" is repetitive messages on chat channels or by email, some benign ("Guardian LFG TA Story") some annoying and some selling gold.

"Spamming" not "scaming" as you were misreporting, was the only option previously to report gold salales advertising in chat or emails. Now it has it's own clear option.

It's just a tweak and hardly even worth mentioning.

Originally posted by bartoni33

Originally posted by spitfire1064

"A wise man has something to say, But a fool just has to say something." 

 

Practice what you preach.

+1

BTW I have noticed that when I get GS mails the names of the GS aren't the usual "ghfgf" and so on like at launch. They "seem" to be real names. Makes me wonder how many hacked accounts there really are out there. I ALMOST feel sorry reporting them.

Don't feel bad. If the person who's account it belongs to is lucky Anet will shut down the account before all of the items and money have been sold off of it.

I meant no insult in my curiosity into why AernaNET added a new option under the reporting feature. Just playing devil's advocate a little and looking for a genuine discussion to boot.

Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter

If I'm not mistaken, Anet said to report gold users as "Spamming" before.

Good thing they added a new category.

 

IMO Anet simply wasn't prepared to the level of attention the game would be attracting dispite all the talks of wanting to be number 1. Even after having 1 million beta signups in 48 hours and having 1 million pre-purchases, GW2 is most likely 2 to 3 times bigger than GW1 ever was.

I used 'scamming' because I look at it as a scam.