WAR (Warhammer Online)

WAR is a great game but has a huge problem. Infact after this morning (off-time) I am thinking of canceling my account. Gold Spamming!!!!!!!!! Mythic claims it has the smoothes launch in mmo history. That maybe, it was smooth. However since the first hour I logged in the gold spamming has not stopped. Just this morning in about an hour of play I recieved 11 /tells. WAR by far has had the worst gold spamming in any mmo I have ever played in nearly 10 years of mmo experience.

Why this might cause me to leave WAR?  Well, I have no faith in EA/Mythic's ability to protect my account. You see the thing is that 6 of the gold spammers were on my ignore list. When I tried to submit a ticket to report the gold spammers I get a message saying no character of that name exists. I have had a ticket submitted for over 2 days asking for a csr to help me if my ignore is broke or way to not get so many /tells. I looked for a way to stop /tells which would suck but I could not find that. Still no response from a CSR

If the spammers can bypass the ignore list and make it so their names do not exist. They must be hacking. If they can bypass these things what is to say they can not eventually hack our accounts. The lack of crs response and the ability for spammers to bypass games mechanics makes me want to log in less and less, simply because of the constent hassles. This is not a small issue. It is also so bad you can not just ignore the occasional spam it is relentless and the same people have been doing it for days. Mythic claims to be be doing a lot about it. I have not seen any evidence they have done anything. With each passing day the gold spamming gets worst. This maybe a game breaker for me. You just can not get immersed in the game with gold spams every few minutes and this is not an exaggeration.

You have to realise that WAR being a huge game, it's going to attract 'alot' of gold sellers, especially being a PVP focused game and the competition is more hardcore then traditional MMO's.

Mythic seem to be working their butt off banning gold seller accounts and finding ways to ease the pain by offering temporary solutions while they work on a long term solution no doubt, as do most MMO's which have issues with gold sellers.

It's a problem in all popular MMO's.  Just use the /anon feature until it lessens for you.  They've banned over 5,000 accounts already.  Mythic is doing a great job in smashing the gold sellers down.

Originally posted by tachgb

You have to realise that WAR being a huge game, it's going to attract 'alot' of gold sellers, especially being a PVP focused game and the competition is more hardcore then traditional MMO's.

Mythic seem to be working their butt off banning gold seller accounts and finding ways to ease the pain by offering temporary solutions while they work on a long term solution no doubt, as do most MMO's which have issues with gold sellers.

You miss the important issue. The spammers are somehow bypassing game mechanics. They bypass ignore lists and you can not even submit a ticket to report them. I tried to report 4 of the spammers this morning and the ticket was rejected saying those names do not exist. I got that message right as one of the names that "does not exist" was spamming me. I have never seen that in any other game with gold spammers. Now do you understand? I do realize WAR is a huge game I also understand the work that a developer needs to do to fight gold spammers however the situation in WAR is different. You are not responding to an mmo newbie I have been through dozens of launches over the last 10 years! Mythic does not seem to be working their butts off. If that was the case it would slowly be getting better. My experience is it is getting worst.

Originally posted by eccoton

Originally posted by tachgb

You have to realise that WAR being a huge game, it's going to attract 'alot' of gold sellers, especially being a PVP focused game and the competition is more hardcore then traditional MMO's.

Mythic seem to be working their butt off banning gold seller accounts and finding ways to ease the pain by offering temporary solutions while they work on a long term solution no doubt, as do most MMO's which have issues with gold sellers.

 

You miss the important issue. The spammers are somehow bypassing game mechanics. They bypass ignore lists and you can not even submit a ticket to report them. I tried to report 4 of the spammers this morning and the ticket was rejected saying those names do not exist. I got that message right as one of the names that "does not exist" was spamming me. I have never seen that in any other game with gold spammers. Now do you understand? I do realize WAR is a huge game I also understand the work that a developer needs to do to fight gold spammers however the situation in WAR is different. You are not responding to an mmo newbie I have been through dozens of launches over the last 10 years! Mythic does not seem to be working their butts off. If that was the case it would slowly be getting better. My experience is it is getting worst.

If you've been an MMO gamer for over 10 years, you should be well aware of the gold selling problems in ALL mmo's.  WAR is certainly not the first and will not be the last.  Every game I've played in the MMO genre has always had problems with gold sellers. WAR is no different.

I reported 3 gold spammers this morning with no problems whatsoever. 

Originally posted by JonMichael

Originally posted by eccoton

Originally posted by tachgb

You have to realise that WAR being a huge game, it's going to attract 'alot' of gold sellers, especially being a PVP focused game and the competition is more hardcore then traditional MMO's.

Mythic seem to be working their butt off banning gold seller accounts and finding ways to ease the pain by offering temporary solutions while they work on a long term solution no doubt, as do most MMO's which have issues with gold sellers.

 

You miss the important issue. The spammers are somehow bypassing game mechanics. They bypass ignore lists and you can not even submit a ticket to report them. I tried to report 4 of the spammers this morning and the ticket was rejected saying those names do not exist. I got that message right as one of the names that "does not exist" was spamming me. I have never seen that in any other game with gold spammers. Now do you understand? I do realize WAR is a huge game I also understand the work that a developer needs to do to fight gold spammers however the situation in WAR is different. You are not responding to an mmo newbie I have been through dozens of launches over the last 10 years! Mythic does not seem to be working their butts off. If that was the case it would slowly be getting better. My experience is it is getting worst.

 

If you've been an MMO gamer for over 10 years, you should be well aware of the gold selling problems in ALL mmo's.  WAR is certainly not the first and will not be the last.  Every game I've played in the MMO genre has always had problems with gold sellers. WAR is no different.

I reported 3 gold spammers this morning with no problems whatsoever. 

 

Good for you, all 4 I tried to report it said they did not exists that is a fact. Every response has ignored the fact that somehow the spammers are tricking the game to think they do not exist or if they are on ignore they can still send you tells. Ummm Yes I have been in mmos for 10 years. I also noted that I understand that gold selling is in all mmos but nothing like what I have experienced in WAR. WAR is different, it is far worst!

So don't come here and suggest I do not understand launches and gold spamming or that somehow I am not reporting them right. Did not want to do this but I think I need to. MMOs I have been in at launch, UO, EQ, AC, AC2, D&DO, SWG, DaoC, Horizons, WoW, EQ2, LoTRO, FFXI, Silkroads, Guild Wars, Saga of Ryzom, Tabula Rasa, Hellgate London, Planetside, Vanguard, RF Online, CoH/CoV, Archlord, AoC, and few others. In my experience WAR has been by far the worst for gold spamming and I have seen no progress in the area of fixing it. I never said they were not trying I said it has not gotten better and because it is so relentless it has now effect my enjoyment of the game. I can ignore a few /tells but to get them every few minutes I have never experienced that in any other mmo and I truely doubt you have either.  I am not a WAR hater I love the game and defend it. however I can not defend this apparent lack of success by Mythic in this area and yes if it continues at this level it is a game breaker.

Just get over it and move on with your life.  Look at all this time you've spent whining when you could have been playing.  Gold sellers will never go away.  You need to accept this...

The Herald pointed me to a Mod that is supported by the game developers.  You can find it at this siteL
http://war.curse.com/downloads/war-addons/details/spam-me-not.aspx

It is called spam me not, and what it does is filter incoming /tell messages for gold spam.  It will then block that from being seen by you.  Instead it just shows A message from thisperson was blocked.

There is an icon in the top right by the map that you can click, where it tells you what the message was.  The program automatically sends a message to the devs with the person's name and the message they sent you.

This latest patch fixed some problems with the /ignore list and also added some options to reporting gold spammers.

The Devs take the gold problem seriously.  Use the above mod and you'll be much happier about the gold situation, and you'll be doing your part by reporting every message in detail.

Best of luck!