A Note to Players about In-Game Scams

Just a note to let all Guild Wars players know that, as always, we definitely are listening to the community. There are three player-based problems that we are addressing at present: in-game trade scams, "casinos," and the advertising of alleged cheats and hacks.

Guild Wars players are, as a rule, great people. Ours is a terrific community of gamers, to be sure. But there are a few players who are engaging in disruptive and unpleasant behaviors, such as stealing gold or items through crooked gambling, trying to nab someone's access key by advertising a fake "hack," or taking items or gold via a trade scam. Such behavior will not be tolerated, and the accounts of players involved in such activities can and will be banned.

So this is by way of a friendly warning. Or a not-so-friendly warning, as the case may be. It's important to know that the reports that we receive will be investigated and those found to be breaking the Rules of Conduct or the Terms of Service will be banned.

We're confident that the vast majority of Guild Wars players will support our efforts to keep the game world pleasant for all. We want to thank everyone who is helping us with reports, with watchfulness about this issue, and with shared concern for the greater good. We'll continue to do our best to offer the best possible experience in every facet of Guild Wars!

Thats really great to hear! I'm glad you guys let us know whats up like this, I wonder how many other online games do.

I hadn't heard about the casino's until a day or two ago, never had a problem with it, then again I rarely have the local channel on due to slight spamming. But they're rather annoying, and the whole trying to promote supposed cheats is very aggrevating because we DON'T need them. Key words, 'DON'T NEED'

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Thanks a bunch! I knew the Casinos would come as soon as I found out about the in-game dice rolling... and with casinos come heaps and heaps of scammers. Lovely, ain't it?
I prefer Rock, Paper, Scissors over rolling dice, anyway.

I did see advertising for an item hack, I was on the verge of emailing you guys but thought it might just be a virus - it was a virus.

So be warned before using these "item hacks" they might be a virus.

Yeah, not too long ago someone on this very forum was advertising a "trainer" for Gw, that actually turned out to be a key-logger.

Thank you Gaile!

Can this thread be stickied please?

If Gaile is still arournd, or reads this later,

What about advertising ingame items for real world money, e.g. Ebaying GW items?

By ban, do you mean account ban as in banning tahat specific account or IP ban? And how long is each ban? I say you guys can ban scammers a lot longer than other mmorpgs, you guys dont need month;y-fees, they do.

I'd assume IP ban, otherwise they could just put all their ill-gotten gains in the vault prior and create a new account...

When the official markket town/distric comes to be, why not a casino program, Just the thought, not the programming.


feedback?

A duel IP/ account ban would work so much better than merely one or the other. If one person wants to play the game so bad and still finds the urge to scam, then both should be implemented. I just got through with taking Semester One of the Cysco Academy Certification Program Online but even before that, I was well aware of how to use certain settings to get around IP bans (only got banned because Tactics and TS are somehow illegal in the world of FPSs!!). Anyway, if the person knows what they are doing, they can get around the IP ban; if they are determined enough, they will buy a new game. Usually, the person will not be both, usually either/or. Implementing both will cut down on return offenders, in my experience with online gaming at least.

Please give us an auction house...

People who have no patience to listen to spammers and scammers would love it (people like me :P)!

Thanks for the update, much appreciated.

What gets me about things like the casino isn’t that people will try to scam others (that’s a given) but that people fall for it. It’s kind of sad.

At the risk of being banned from ever speaking again, why not have bingo? Itd be great, with good swords etc for the prizes..... ok its a crap idea ..... but Id play it.

in a word... excellent!

Thank you Gaile and Arena Net

Forgive my cynical reply, thanks for keeping us up to date on a lot of the things happening around AN. This is great news because we now know where you, as developers, stand. Thanks for supporting the honest players out there!

Can someone explain me the casino ?
As i've almost always the emotes and the local channel turned off i didn't see anything. But my guess is that someone is doing some sort of a bet system based on the /roll emote (correct me if i'm wrong).
If this is only in-game money (not real one) i don't see the problem... competitive or not, this game is an RPG and as long as it's in game money and the players have accepted to play, i don't see what's wrong...

Sendai..

The problem with the casinos is that too many of the people running them are ripping off the poor saps that hand over thier cash in in good faith. If everyone running the casinos were honest.. along with the players, it would not be an issue of scamming..

Regardless of that though there is still the issue of spamming the local chat windows to the point that in some places you don't see anything else other than that and trade spams.

Thanks for the update Gaile! It's always nice to hear from a redname every so often, especially concerning in game issues. It must be hellish to go through these posts sometimes and determin whats worth what and what isnt.