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Powerlevelers and Booster/Gold Sellers
Calzone2
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How will people who sell AoC Powerleveling or AoC Gold be adressed by interpid?
what do u guys think
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I hope the Corruption System can be turned off for Gold Scammers.
Gold-Sellers and Gathering-Bots.
I'm relieved to hear that Intrepid will have a dedicated team tracking them down and squishing them! The last thing any of us want is these fiends ruining our immersion and our economies!
Steven Sharif is my James Halliday (Anorak)
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
-HPL
The harder you crack down on the sellers AND buyers (!), the lower the market will be and ultimately the problem in the end.
Permaban the selling accounts and punish the buyers of such services extensively.
This way, you remove the corporate aspect of it. Then you just have those left, that sell some gold to a friend once in a while. Which is a neglible problem.
"You agree that you will not buy, sell or trade, or offer to buy, sell or trade, any Game Assets, except that you may trade certain in-game items (e.g., houses, armor, weapons, consumables) for other in-game items and/or in-game currency in an in-game transaction expressly permitted by Intrepid (e.g., an authorized transaction using an in-game auction house or Intrepid-sanctioned in-game item trade between Intrepid Account holders). For the avoidance of doubt, and in no way limiting the foregoing, you are prohibited from offering for sale or purchasing any Game Assets (whether or not held by Intrepid Accounts registered to you) outside of the Service, through a website, or any other medium, or exchanging Game Assets, whether inside or outside the Service, for anything of value outside the Service or in the real world."
Which means if you do these things, the hammer may swing! 🔨 As some other folks in this thread have already mentioned, a combination of in-game support/GMs and your lovely eyes and ears on the ground reporting them to us will help us make Verra a safer place
(Just a thought!)
While that sounds fun, it is better to just ban-hammer them.
Why not both? Ban them, but leave their unplayable character model in the stocks for a week where we can pay 1gp to the node to be able to pelt them with rotten fruit, before they're deleted.
I will be Verra's finest rotten fruit salesman for this very purpose.
Just wanted to add a question to this.
To further ensure the economy does not evolve to gold sales etc ahead with people and their elaborate plans, could we not include a full permanent ban and account wipe / deletion for people that start to spam chat with the usual
w-w-w. yeahgoldishardbutg3titherelaaawl. co---m 3$ - 50k gOOOld?
Also, to be prepared for these people, what about a specific report section that you can send in and it includes
* Screenshot of chat box to add gold seller info / addresses
* Timestamps / Node / Server / World location etc etc ( as in ALL the info )
* Optional screenshots taken during gameplay for more evidence
I feel there are often a lack of tools for us to use to report these situations, and instead we have to make due with calling it " abuse " or " bad behaviour " and it get´s flooded in the pile of never ending reports.
The absolut most game affecting abuses should very much have their own specific report section.
Also, when these reports are sent in, and there are an abundance of evidence that fully proves what they are doing, i would vote for you wiping the entire guild / faction / group or whatever you want to call it. Make it clear day one what happens.
If a GM has enough time to determine that someone is a bot, they have time enough to ban.
100%
This is why quite a few games do "ban waves" instead of insta-bans - you can uncover more of the botting network and get deeper into the roots this way.
Also - consider listing the banned accounts on the forums so we know and to inhibit others.
Also - consider punishments of guilds which are found to be full of people buying (or selling) gold. Remove some of their guild perks, don't allow them castles or guild halls....make them clean their own houses of gold buyers.
I personally support witch hunts. WoW devs don't understand that Witch hunts help get rid of boosters and that allowed the to spread like a disease and eventually turn into a cancer. I hope Intrepid will not back down at all
something like: "If caught buying selling or otherwise cheating you will be agreeing to purchasing our cheater badge that will be automatically charged to your account and sent to your mail address. You will acquire additional cheater badges per infraction." Basically you send them crappy slips of paper with "Cheater Badge" sharpied onto it and then ban their account. Charge per transaction or infraction you find on the account before its ban and boom you are scaring off all of these clowns that have nothing better to do than ruin our game.
Other games have tried warnings, temporary bans, and all kinds of things and that has never solved the problem. So many of us are decent, honest gamers who work for our advancement and who are sickened by cheaters....and these decent players quit when cheaters prosper. When we quit, revenues go down, so it is in the best interest of IS to keep us, the player base, happy by PermaBans of all gold buyers.
No Mercy.
I think this gets legally complicated.
Especially if actions like this cross international borders.
Would have to ask a proper lawyer tho...
Companies can't do things like this, as they fall under the definition of taxes - and only governments are able to levy taxes in almost every jurisdiction on the planet.
What a company could do though, is suspend an account and charge a fee to have it unsuspended.
The problem with this though, is that as soon as someone that wasn't selling or such (or that could convince a large number of people that they weren't) had their account suspended in such a way, it would be irreparably bad PR for the company - it would look like they are arbitrarily suspending player accounts and charging money to allow players access to them again.
The other problem with this is that someone that is using an account for RMT is likely not using a "real" account, and likely has a temporary credit card of some description attached to it.
That is probably because Blizzard has a long history of doing basically nothing at all about them.
They are easily the worst MMO publisher at dealing with such activity.