Do game admins ever go to Balthazar ID1?

deluxe

deluxe

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Monkeyball Z

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As title says, just wondering, as it would be a banning party for game admins.. you could ban 100's of goldsellers/spammers a day instead of banning people that actually play the game.

this picture was made after standing in temple of balthazar for 1 minute max.

blurmedia

Banned

Join Date: Sep 2007

UNCONTROLLABLE RAGE [moko]

...I always get at least 3 of those in the 5 secs I spend in Balthazar's after I make a PvP character

Zinger314

Zinger314

Debbie Downer

Join Date: May 2006

N/Me

It's more efficient to let all the idiots to congegrate in one place.

If you feel morally violated, go somewhere else or turn off Local. Takes 2 seconds.

Zeek Aran

Zeek Aran

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Earth, sadly

BORK

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People continue to say it's not against the rules to advertise the site.

I think that's BS, though.

Dr Strangelove

Dr Strangelove

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Dec 2005

Wasting away again in Margaritaville

[HOTR]

If I was a game admin, I wouldn't go there either. I might catch e-STDs from all the people cybering there.

Chik N Nuggets

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^ you fail.... wasnt a bit funny.

zwei2stein

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Europe

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
If you feel morally violated, go somewhere else or turn off Local. Takes 2 seconds.
Issue is not him minding it.

Issue is anet not taking any obvious advantage of huge amount of egold related accounts that basically walk with "ban me" target painted on em.

Zinger314

Zinger314

Debbie Downer

Join Date: May 2006

N/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by zwei2stein
Issue is anet not taking any obvious advantage of huge amount of egold related accounts that basically walk with "ban me" target painted on em.
If you ban them, they just buy another account and go spam somewhere else, i.e. LA/Kaineng/Kamadan ID1.

What's more practical?

deluxe

deluxe

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Monkeyball Z

S.K.A.T. [Ban]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
If you ban them, they just buy another account and go spam somewhere else, i.e. LA/Kaineng/Kamadan ID1.

What's more practical?
Means more money for anet doesnt it? Are you just pretending to be smart or what?
Eventually they won't make any money from it anymore .

Zinger314

Zinger314

Debbie Downer

Join Date: May 2006

N/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by deluxe
Means more money for anet doesnt it? Are you just pretending to be smart or what?
What's the cost of a GW account nowadays; $5? $10?

I believe the salary of NCSoft/ArenaNet support team members costs a little more than that...

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chik N Nuggets
^ you fail.... wasnt a bit funny.
Why, are you one of those sitting in the temple with armor off and /bowhead hugging another toon and afk'd?

Pathetic losers...this is why I'm almost never there....Only there to change professions on one of my characters.

Chael

Chael

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Join Date: Sep 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
What's the cost of a GW account nowadays; $5? $10?

I believe the salary of NCSoft/ArenaNet support team members costs a little more than that...
Development teams should never show apathy towards their own game. Every MMO has this problem; it's not a matter of cost/reward, it's a matter of company integrity. Granted that it's nigh-impossible to "stomp out" gold/account selling, it's of my opinion that the company has responsibility to keep their game clean and discourage this activity.

Toxage

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

The Admins don't touch Guild Wars anymore... They spend 10+ hours a day working on it for almost five years... They are sick and tired of Guild Wars. Not to mention they don't give a crap about their game anymore... They have made millions of dollars. Why do they care about a couple gold ads?

Gold Farmers have gone untouched for years. They have been spamming in Ascalon International for years, with nothing done. Same case with all the bots in Elona... been their for ages. Same case with bots in Droknar. Bots and Gold Farmers have been rampant in Guild Wars for years. Nothing to see here, lets move along to our next QQ moar thread.

Zinger314

Zinger314

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Join Date: May 2006

N/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Chael
Development teams should never show apathy towards their own game.
That's what happens when you don't have a monthly fee; a smaller, less effective support team.

Crescent Sky

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Join Date: Nov 2007

well i see no one has gotten it yet. The reason they don't ban any of those accounts is because they're trial accounts. The bots in Balthazar iD1 that spam their sites are all trial accounts, so they can ban them, but those goldsites will just get on another trial account and keep spamming.

Toxage

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Crescent Sky
well i see no one has gotten it yet. The reason they don't ban any of those accounts is because they're trial accounts. The bots in Balthazar iD1 that spam their sites are all trial accounts, so they can ban them, but those goldsites will just get on another trial account and keep spamming.
OBJECTION! Maybe you should read the thread.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Toxage
The Admins don't touch Guild Wars anymore... They spend 10+ hours a day working on it for almost five years... They are sick and tired of Guild Wars. Not to mention they don't give a crap about their game anymore... They have made millions of dollars. Why do they care about a couple gold ads?

Gold Farmers have gone untouched for years. They have been spamming in Ascalon International for years, with nothing done. Same case with all the bots in Elona... been their for ages. Same case with bots in Droknar. Bots and Gold Farmers have been rampant in Guild Wars for years. Nothing to see here, lets move along to our next QQ moar thread.


PWNED!

WTS - Reading Comprehension!

AscalonWarrior

AscalonWarrior

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

Kokkola, Finland

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Toxage
The Admins don't touch Guild Wars anymore... They spend 10+ hours a day working on it for almost five years... They are sick and tired of Guild Wars. Not to mention they don't give a crap about their game anymore... They have made millions of dollars. Why do they care about a couple gold ads?

Gold Farmers have gone untouched for years. They have been spamming in Ascalon International for years, with nothing done.
Could you please tell me how do you know that?

Toxage

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
That's what happens when you don't have a monthly fee; a smaller, less effective support team.
QFT!

I love how people complain about 15$ monthly fees... but honestly if you can't afford 15$ a month then you shouldn't be wasting time on video games. It's rather easy to make money if you put your mind to it, in the last couple months I been bringing 10,000+ dollars a month and I don't even have a college degree, let alone a high school diploma.

More money = More money in budget for game = Everything gets improved.... Makes me sad that we receive such crappy support... waiting weeks for responses from support.

netniwk

netniwk

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Join Date: Mar 2005

Bellgium

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
That's what happens when you don't have a monthly fee; a smaller, less effective support team.
because there aren't gold sellers/bot in say,...WOW
rooflez.

RSGashapon

RSGashapon

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Join Date: Nov 2006

Sol 3

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Selling drugs to school kids or one of those online, work-at-home, has-that-fox-as-a-spokesman deals?

Zinger314

Zinger314

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Join Date: May 2006

N/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by netniwk
because there aren't gold sellers/bot in say,...WOW
rooflez.
Actually no, since Blizzard limits the abilitiy of gold sellers to use trial accounts by forbidding trial accounts to whisper/invite people to groups.

Blizzard also has in-game GMs and is actually suing one gold-selling company (although I don't think there has been any progress in several months...)

Shuuda

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Join Date: Jul 2006

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
That's what happens when you don't have a monthly fee; a smaller, less effective support team.
QFT. HOWEVER, since you can turn off chat and ignore it, it's not worth paying for. Saying it is worth it is like saying games today are more challenging and fun than older games.

netniwk

netniwk

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Join Date: Mar 2005

Bellgium

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
Actually no, since Blizzard limits the abilitiy of gold sellers to use trial accounts by forbidding trial accounts to whisper/invite people to groups.

Blizzard also has in-game GMs and is actually suing one gold-selling company (although I don't think there has been any progress in several months...)
have you ever played wow?(i know you did) so please,don't lie.there are loads of bots and I even got programed whispers from gold selling company's

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Toxage
QFT!

I love how people complain about 15$ monthly fees... but honestly if you can't afford 15$ a month then you shouldn't be wasting time on video games. It's rather easy to make money if you put your mind to it, in the last couple months I been bringing 10,000+ dollars a month and I don't even have a college degree, let alone a high school diploma.

More money = More money in budget for game = Everything gets improved.... Makes me sad that we receive such crappy support... waiting weeks for responses from support.

roffles.

any career that makes 10k+ per month leaves you no time to play games. If you're day trading, you're not playing. If you're running a business, you're not playing. If you're working 80 hours a week, you're not playing. Try again.

Zinger314

Zinger314

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Join Date: May 2006

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Quote:
Originally Posted by netniwk
have you ever played wow?(i know you did) so please,don't lie.there are loads of bots and I even got programed whispers from gold selling company's
I got programmed whispers and saw bots when I played in 2006. I saw none when I played in 2007.

That was on a high-population server, to boot.

When was the last time you played?

netniwk

netniwk

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2005

Bellgium

W/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
I got programmed whispers and saw bots when I played in 2006. I saw none when I played in 2007.

That was on a high-population server, to boot.

When was the last time you played?
not that recently,but still in 2007.Haven't heard of any game-breaking update since.

xReLx

xReLx

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Join Date: Aug 2007

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Toxage
QFT!

I love how people complain about 15$ monthly fees... but honestly if you can't afford 15$ a month then you shouldn't be wasting time on video games. It's rather easy to make money if you put your mind to it, in the last couple months I been bringing 10,000+ dollars a month and I don't even have a college degree, let alone a high school diploma.

More money = More money in budget for game = Everything gets improved.... Makes me sad that we receive such crappy support... waiting weeks for responses from support.
Rofl. Huge fail.

Crescent Sky

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by Toxage
OBJECTION! Maybe you should read the thread.

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i was speaking in relation to the original post, if you have more than half a brain you could figure that out. The OP referred to bots in Balthazar ID1, not bots in Ascalon or anywhere else. People began complaining about why nothing is done about bots specifically in Balthazar ID1, and so i responded to that. As to further replies about bots in Ascalon, and other places, i have yet to reply to that.

WTS- Deductive Reasoning Skills!

Now back on track, does anyone have any bright ideas on how to stop these goldsites from using trial accounts to spam in Balthazar ID1?

netniwk

netniwk

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Join Date: Mar 2005

Bellgium

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Crescent Sky
Now back on track, does anyone have any bright ideas on how to stop these goldsites from using trial accounts to spam in Balthazar ID1?
just removing the trials from the face of excistence?

aapo

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shuuda
QFT. HOWEVER, since you can turn off chat and ignore it, it's not worth paying for. Saying it is worth it is like saying games today are more challenging and fun than older games.
- I agree with everything you said.

Saraphim

Saraphim

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The Hand of Omega [WHO]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
I got programmed whispers and saw bots when I played in 2006. I saw none when I played in 2007.

That was on a high-population server, to boot.

When was the last time you played?
None? I see one every time I'm in Orgrimmar, every single time. Either a lvl 1 orc or troll, but they're there.

Lady Raenef

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Off-topic: Damn, the OP's UI would be so confusing for me!

On-topic: As long as they're all in one place rather than in the usual spots, I'm okay with it, but yeah, Anet should really drop the B-Bomb on them.

~ Dan ~

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2006

D/

Wtf? There's bots in this game?!

Darkobra

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Type like an idiot, I'll treat you like an idiot

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
Actually no, since Blizzard limits the abilitiy of gold sellers to use trial accounts by forbidding trial accounts to whisper/invite people to groups.

Blizzard also has in-game GMs and is actually suing one gold-selling company (although I don't think there has been any progress in several months...)
Orgrimmar today. Nagrand server. We got SWARMED with them.

Sirius-NZ

Sirius-NZ

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Don't suppose you can PK bots in WoW?

You can't see me

You can't see me

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
What's the cost of a GW account nowadays; $5? $10?

I believe the salary of NCSoft/ArenaNet support team members costs a little more than that...
The issue, ladies, is not whether Arenanet profits on the bans. The issue is that players who advertize/utilize/profit from gold sales need to be banned.

Darkobra

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sirius-NZ
Don't suppose you can PK bots in WoW?
Far more complicated than that. I'm on a PvE server so you'd need to agree to PvP to be killed. Even then, I don't think I can kill someone from my own territory.

sagilltwins

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chik N Nuggets
^ you fail.... wasnt a bit funny.
no this is funny lol

Shakkara

Shakkara

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Join Date: Oct 2006

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Toxage
QFT!

I love how people complain about 15$ monthly fees... but honestly if you can't afford 15$ a month then you shouldn't be wasting time on video games. It's rather easy to make money if you put your mind to it, in the last couple months I been bringing 10,000+ dollars a month and I don't even have a college degree, let alone a high school diploma.

More money = More money in budget for game = Everything gets improved.... Makes me sad that we receive such crappy support... waiting weeks for responses from support.
Shut up!

Ultima Online has a 15 dollar fee, and look at the site what they have patched in a YEAR! Less then GW adds and fixes in a month!

http://uo.stratics.com/news/GeneralN...97671126,46162,

lyra_song

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Temple of Balthazar ID1....wretched hive of scum and villainy