Guild Wars and eBay.

daraaksii

daraaksii

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

Well, some months ago, eBay said that they will do everything against the gold sellers on their site.

Here is the result:

MOD EDIT: link and search terms removed, see below

Eli Rela

Eli Rela

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

USA

N/

Give it up, it's a lost war. I do not buy this stuff as it will ruin the soul of the game, but I think it is impossible to stop all of this. And ANet unfortunately doing it wrong nerfing everything in-game. It will not stop bots/scripts, but successfully ruin the game for rest of us.


MOD EDIT: While I find posting info on how to find these gold sellers while complaining about them at the same time amusing, it is not allowed to post information that links to or helps people find such sites.

Loeil Battlecow

Loeil Battlecow

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2005

INSK

Mo/E

Bah anyway in Ascalon inter I see, very often, someone who spam the adress of his web site to buy GP. You can report, the week after the guy is still here with the same message.

Anet should add a /report key on the game. A command that, when is used send the last 10 or 20 text lines of the district to Anet. But thats mean have someone who take care of these report ... and its alot of money for a game who doesnt have a cost everymonth.

daraaksii

daraaksii

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

A-net don't care about reports... I've reported 20+ gold selling page advertising players, and nothing.

Smile Like Umean It

Smile Like Umean It

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2006

E/Rt

I've reported people for advertising to buy/sell gold and accounts (runescape and gw) and those same people were on every time I checked my friends list.

I agree with Loeil. And I get that they may not have the money or resources to hire people to monitor the incoming reports, but couldn't they take volunteers? Maybe have them screened or something first, of course.

thezed

thezed

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

Iowa, USA

HoTR

Quote:
Originally Posted by daraaksii
A-net don't care about reports... I've reported 20+ gold selling page advertising players, and nothing.
Anet cares, but like a previous poster said, It is a lost war. It is a lot like spam, you can stop one and two others replace it. These "companies" can quickly change their name and website, faster then Anet can launch a law suit. And because most of these companies are in forgeign countries (ie China) it makes legal action all the more difficult.

The best Anet can do is bann accounts to try and slow the tide/make the business less profitable.

SleetDragon

SleetDragon

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2007

In my House duh...

Knights of The Primeval Kings [Knyt]

W/

I think maybe you misunderstood it (or perhaps I did). But I believe it was to stop Ebay from selling "items" (Such as weapons, mods, etc...) for real cash. I have been to Ebay before and after the supposed "Nerf" and before I saw stuff like Sundering Zodiac Sword of Fortitude Req 8 just $5. Then afterwards I did not see anything but the "Gold" sellers. So my interpretation is the said to stop selling the Items not the actual game gold to buy them with. Because that could make the market flunctuate if they aren't using the in game gold to buy them.

Domino

Domino

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Houston

A/Rt

There's also the fact that ebay makes money off of every listing.

I don't blame them for taking a half-assed stance on gold selling. If someone can sell a McNugget that looks like the virgin mary, are they really going to care if someone is selling "imaginary" property?

This topic has been beat to death so many times that I'm not going to launch into an explanation on why gold selling will never be eliminated... I can sum it up in this simple statement:

as long as their is a demand, there will be those willing to supply.

It's a simple law of market economics.

FeroxC

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2006

EOA

P/W

Untill lawyers start accepting payment in plat Anet cant afford to do anything about these websites

ca_aok

ca_aok

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

Xen of Onslaught

E/Me

To be 100% honest unless ANET cracks down on ALL gold sites, it's probably in people's best intrests for ebay to keep selling, as at least on ebay people have seller ratings as opposed to some shady gold site that trojans your computer.

Priest Of Sin

Priest Of Sin

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

Sitting upon Kerrigan's Throne.

Live For The Swarm [ZERG]

Me/N

The only option is to ban all of Asia from Guild Wars...


















jkjk, calm down.

Zonzai

Zonzai

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2005

E/

ROFL

That makes my side hurt...