Get Rid of the WTS Advertisers

people are talking about the ads in the group finder.

If they just limited listing M+ groups or current raids to level 80 characters it would clean out those listings over night. Of course it would just kick them into Quests or some other category but hey then people that say it isn’t a problem would have to deal with it for a change and maybe they’d also get vocal about it.

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It’s not limited to class trial. A boosted 60 and 70 can do the same thing. It’s ridiculous that they’re allowed to use Mythic and Mythic+ in the LFG tool.

Well that’s what I get for just reading titles. Apologies. Yes those ones are awful. And very very often they are a lie and doing something bad. All those « molten core » listings are not running molten core.

TBF I did the same thing because it wasn’t in the OP. I guess we needed to read the first few replies or something.

Trials shouldn’t be able to use chats, they can’t use mail or go into old raids they should really be for questing or doing the training dummy to see if you like the feel of the class

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they can’t.

No amount of filters, restrictions, or addons are going to stop this as long as players continue to feel the need to give these people money.

The only solution is to find a way to include these players and help them to become better so that they don’t feel compelled to pay for the privilege of doing content in a video game.

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Maybe force them to stay in Exile’s Reach too.

And create a zone just for the 10 levels below max too to try their skills out.

There is zero reason for a non-paying members and trial characters to leave these two areas.

Yes they certainly can, I just created one last week and couldn’t get mail but I could chat

Unless that was a bug that allowed it which is possible with Blizz

One of the funniest things on Exile’s Reach is some level 1 will just sit on the ship spamming RMT ads in /say

Great way to introduce new players to the game.

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lol are you serious? I have never seen that.

Yeah cut off their chat options too then.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zGGtAvBJuc

Start at 1 minute.

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That’s where a filter could come in perfect, cause even if they got their own tab, they’d never use it :smiley: The still sell services in Trade Chat even after getting their own channel. The problem is they don’t care, so we have to figure out how to filter them so we don’t have to care either :rofl:

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Without the WTS crowd, how else will Blizzard sell a gajillion tokens?

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People want wow to be social again. But 90% of is real money spam, 9% is that one guy looking for a specific craft, and 1% are real people discussing

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It was barely social to begin with. Trade and Barrens chats were little more than Murloc movie titles and Chuck Norris jokes. The social aspect came from joining a guild, making friends, and running together while chatting on Ventrillo or looking stuff up on Thottbot. The only way to get the social aspect back is to find a like minded guild, hang in Discord with them, and then invite random people you dungeon with who seem chill and want the same thing.

One channel filter will not help socialization, but it can isolate offenders if implemented correctly. All the “social stuff” is up to us.

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are you actually endorsing the WTS stuff in LFG?

they can use /say with people below level 10

I think we’re talking about two different things, my original post that you replied to was replying to someone talking a ont class trials those characters start at like 60 or whatever and they can use chat.

I think you’re talking about new characters on trial accounts which is different.