Diablo 2, Gold sellers, and spam

NH03

Just after the closure of EBay's Digital Trading a site called diablo 2 jsp popped up on the internet. This site was devoted to trading diablo 2 items for fake money called forum gold, monopoly money reinforced with the dollar. Diablo 2 jsp created the backbone for third party sites and spam bots by allowing these sites to use clever hacks, bots, and other cheats to find runes and weapons. By exploiting the system these sites are allowed an infinite check to diablo 2 jsp, allowing them to buy legitimate rare(uniquely modded) items and sell them for real money.

Chinese or not, there's no way to stop the practice of gold selling. What you can do is make a place for everyone to sell their gold that way everyone gets their fair share of spotlight. EBay shed light on players and Chinese workers the same, allowing the best price per gold to the buyer. Today the only way to buy gold is through a third party site who's main advertising is within game itself, polluting the atmosphere of the server.

Dman

Or you could say no to spammers and perma-ban tons of accounts. Players get a spam free game with a much-less-fucked economy and the game maker makes money selling accounts to spammers who keep buying them and quickly getting banned.

NH03

While that is a good solution, there is no permanent way of closing down third party sites. Spammers tend to find a way back into the game no matter what you do to prevent them.

Burtletoy

NH03 wrote: »

Just after the closure of EBay's Digital Trading a site called diablo 2 jsp popped up on the internet. This site was devoted to trading diablo 2 items for fake money called forum gold, monopoly money reinforced with the dollar. Diablo 2 jsp created the backbone for third party sites and spam bots by allowing these sites to use clever hacks, bots, and other cheats to find runes and weapons. By exploiting the system these sites are allowed an infinite check to diablo 2 jsp, allowing them to buy legitimate rare(uniquely modded) items and sell them for real money.

Chinese or not, there's no way to stop the practice of gold selling. What you can do is make a place for everyone to sell their gold that way everyone gets their fair share of spotlight. EBay shed light on players and Chinese workers the same, allowing the best price per gold to the buyer. Today the only way to buy gold is through a third party site who's main advertising is within game itself, polluting the atmosphere of the server.

Okay.

Eat it You Nasty Pig.

WoW has eliminated them to a pretty significant degree. The goldselling industry is apparently almost entirely dead in that game. The other approach is to do what EVE does, and just institutionalize currency purchasing.

Aside from that, what do you actually want to discuss here? I doubt if anyone is going to come in defending gold selling.

Havelock

Dman wrote: »

Or you could say no to spammers and perma-ban tons of accounts. Players get a spam free game with a much-less-fucked economy and the game maker makes money selling accounts to spammers who keep buying them and quickly getting banned.

:^:

Warhammer Online does this. I haven't been on as of late, but the amount of Mail Spam was pretty damn low when I last logged on (about two months ago) and the /tell spam was gone. Back when it started however, they didn't have people dedicated to banning gold sellers, and the /tell spam was terrible. When they cracked down on the gold sellers at the beginning, spam /tells and mail spam dropped off almost completely.

I think that so long as you have a mod staff dedicated to watching for gold sellers, etc., and banning them, it's a good thing. It's probably not a fight that will be won, but there's steps and measures that can be taken so that Players aren't being hammered with spam and shit all the damn time.

Shadowfire

Dyscord wrote: »

WoW has eliminated them to a pretty significant degree. The goldselling industry is apparently almost entirely dead in that game. The other approach is to do what EVE does, and just institutionalize currency purchasing.

Aside from that, what do you actually want to discuss here? I doubt if anyone is going to come in defending gold selling.

The spam is, but IGE appears to still be doing fine.

And uh....

Hooboy.

I don't have a problem with selling gold, on its face.