I'll be the first to say that I enjoy the game and that I don't mind throwing the $15 to keep playing... However, I will not pay $15 a month to have my chat spammed. I'm not talking about the random one's most games seem to have. No I'm talking about the one's that are spamming so fast you can't even read what is being said in chat.

Is every NA server this bad or is it just mine?

All the servers are like this. Just need to right click the name and block. Do this at the start of play time and you'll be free of the spammers mostly.

yeah, it is usually only 2-3 spammers just block them when you start and you will be fine for the rest of the day,

One thing i would also suggest is separate your LFG channel from everything else and make a separate one. Then you can read the rest of the chat then.

Originally posted by SgtFrog

yeah, it is usually only 2-3 spammers just block them when you start and you will be fine for the rest of the day,

Lol...I know it's completely offtopic but love your new pic SgtFrog.

Yeah block 'em when you get on although pending on how long you play you'll probably have more bastards you need to block later on.  Actually had to clean up my block list the other day due to it being filled -_-

Although part of that was blocking all the idiots arguing nonstop about Aion vs Game X,  or your momma jokes, feeble attempts at reinvisioning Barrens chat, etc.

What was said by someone else earlier is spot on.  Spend 15 seconds right when you log on abd block the 2 or 3 people that are spamming (this will help them get banned later) and you will be GTG for your game session.  Also, they mostly are just in LFG, and if you arent LFG there really isnt even a reason to have this up.  I usually have legion, group and cleric chat options up and of course whispers.  So it is almost a non-issue when you think about it.

It is definitely a major problem, and hopefully it gets corrected. I'm willing to be patient with this game, it runs well, is fun and I'm having a great time. I just hope NCSoft can deliver on stopping this, I don't like a full list of ignore, matter-of-fact, I rarely ever ignore anyone.

Originally posted by Wickedjelly

Originally posted by SgtFrog

yeah, it is usually only 2-3 spammers just block them when you start and you will be fine for the rest of the day,

 

Lol...I know it's completely offtopic but love your new pic SgtFrog.

haha holy shit just looked at it, thats awesome

just an observation but guild wars is also by ncsoft and it is still rampant with gold sellers, so personally i'm not expecting ncsoft to do anything about it in aion if they can't fix it in guild wars.  although i don't think it should be the players job to keep the gold spammers away, i guess we either learn to deal with it or find another game.  ncsoft apparently will never fix this problem.

Originally posted by SgtFrog

yeah, it is usually only 2-3 spammers just block them when you start and you will be fine for the rest of the day,

I have to agree it's incredibly annoying but the above is correct.

I find that if I scroll up while the text is whizzing by it stops. I then just scroll to 3 or 4 names, block them and the problem vanishes.

Originally posted by Wolfenpride

Originally posted by Wickedjelly

Originally posted by SgtFrog

yeah, it is usually only 2-3 spammers just block them when you start and you will be fine for the rest of the day,

 

Lol...I know it's completely offtopic but love your new pic SgtFrog.

 

haha holy shit just looked at it, thats awesome

haha lol, thnaks :P

NCSoft, unless the company has changed dramatically, will not do anything about money-farmers. 

If chat spam really bothers you that much, you are not hardcore enough to play Aion..... 

Originally posted by jhazard

NCSoft, unless the company has changed dramatically, will not do anything about money-farmers. 

Well they are (well trying), so i guess they have chnaged.

they've been "trying" for years with GW.....they obviously fail

Originally posted by Kyleran

If chat spam really bothers you that much, you are not hardcore enough to play Aion..... 

:(

It is a PvP game after all. I guess I'll have to leave because the spammers keep powning me :-/

On GW. I guess they don't bother me as much because all you have to do is leave and get into a instance.

Originally posted by zenrau

they've been "trying" for years with GW.....they obviously fail

I did not Play GW for long but I did not see any gold spam...
It is impossible to remove gold spam, they just need to try and cut them down somehow.

i played GW from its release up until about april of this year. the spammers got progressively worse over time and were ridiculous by the time i left.  wow doesn't seem to have that problem.  over the last year i think i've seen maybe 1 or 2 spammers that whispered me directly.  maybe it has something to do with their ip or account bans, i dunno, but they sure don't have the problem that ncsoft games have. 

It might and i mean might be impossible to get rid of all gold spammers, however, all it takes is one dedicated GM to completely ban an account on the first gold spam that comes from that account. Instead spammers are allowed to go on for hours on end often with just a single character getting banned. The gold spammers then make another random keyboard name character to go again for hours on end again. That to me isnt trying very hard to stop gold sellers. If it ends up costing the minor farmers at least more money than they can make to keep creating new accounts then the spam will either stop or become something less obnoxious.

Originally posted by SgtFrog

yeah, it is usually only 2-3 spammers just block them when you start and you will be fine for the rest of the day,

Yeah Right! ................................