It’s getting out of hand. Reporting them does nothing. Ignoring them does nothing. People make multiple accounts and keep spamming. Same can be said for Clan advertisement inside dornogal channels. Please address this.
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Blizzard does action those accounts on a daily basis. The unfortunately reality is, those criminals (and yes, they are criminals as they often engage in RMT and credit card theft) have access to many other stolen accounts. All they do once one is closed is spin up another and keep on going. It is a never ending battle made worse by the fact there are players who use their services.
The only sure-fire way to stop the ads is if players stop using their services. All you can do is keep on reporting them.
It would also be next to impossible to proactively block those ads using filters. These criminals are crafty and will get around any filter Blizzard has set up.
As for Guild advertisement, that is allowed if it isn’t spammy. If you feel it is spammy, report the ad and if Blizzard agrees with the report, they will be actioned.
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It’s coming.
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Until they get their solution implemented, you can use add-ons to help filter them out. Not ideal, but it is a solution.
Bad Boy I think is the most common one.
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You do realise how long it takes just to get a case together for so many organisations to even think it will in most cases take years just to even get it to court. And even then theirs all the pre trial stuff they go through. So it could take 5 or more years just to get to court. So as far as blizzard not doing anything as you say. They are doing a lot more about it than you are. You should be demanding that all fellow players not use RMT or other such things not sanctioned by blizzard.
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I’m not entirely sure if rico would apply here, but you’re ignoring the difficulty of identifying any potential defendants, since their accounts are often under fake names and stolen credit cards, and establishing jurisdiction, since if you try to sue a Chinese citizen in US court, you aren’t going to accomplish anything as long as they keep all their assets in China.
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That was seven days ago.
Don’t let posts include the names of more than one dungeon in the description. Don’t let anyone post a group for M+ on anything other than a level 80 character. It won’t fix it for sure, but those are totally reasonable (I believe, anyway) steps that would at least make it easier for us to filter for the dungeon we want. I see 20 WTS listings, filter for eco dome and see… 20 WTS listings. Search for Floodgate, 20 WTS listings… There are small steps that can be made that won’t fix the problem, but will at least make the group finder somewhat more useable in the interim.
And posting your suggestion here will never get to the devs. If you’re sincere about the suggestions, you’ll need to either use the in-game feedback tool, general forum (or an appropriate forum monitored by Community Managers and devs).
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Only problem is pretty sure the people doing this are in China. So kind of hard to sue and get anything from people in China!
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If China can region-lock their servers to exclude non-residents, there’s no reason we can’t implement similar protections. They’ve already shown it’s technically feasible so why are we still allowing cross-region exploitation on ours?
It’s due to law, because in China every Netizen requires to access any internet infrastructure with their ID numbers to the point of restricting internet access based on social credit system in short.
It’s the same as with Korea, where they also use an ID number based system.
The rest of the world doesn’t have something like that although Blizzard tries to keep tabs to counteract fraud purchases e.g. someone who lives in country A trying to buy with country B cheaper currency.
Some people also try to suggest Blizzard should have gobal ID pre-check operations but there’s simply no legalisation that would grant such far reaching privacy penetrations and it wouldn’t help against illegals either anyway since gold and botting operations still continue despite that being dominantly active in China/Korea.
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Actually, most of the Gold Selling Enterprises come out of Eastern Europe and Russia, not as many from Mainland China as you think.
Laws are different in different countries. And some countries have laws where this sort of thing can be prevented as well.
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You was told in your last post on this where to forward suggestions and feedback. Posting here will amount to nothing.
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This wasn’t even my post I was participating in the discussion like everyone else.
Region Locking servers is not a standard practice, and some countries that has laws that prevent Blizzard from doing this.
Now, if you have a suggestion or want to provide feedback towards Blizzard about ideas on how to curb the gold advertisements and stuff in the Premade Group Finder, might want to post that feedback or suggestion via in-game.
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To touch on this; China requies any outside of their region to follow their laws/rules, one of which, (to my understanding), is that they have their own form of the game and have major control over it. In all sense of the term, China has their own form of the game then everyone else has.
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Region-locking is absolutely a standard practice in online gaming. Major titles like Lost Ark, Black Desert Online, PUBG, and even World of Warcraft in China enforce region-based access restrictions. Blizzard itself has used region locks in the past for licensing, language packs, payment systems, and account migration limits.
Claiming “some countries have laws that prevent Blizzard from doing this” is vague and unsupported. No country prohibits Blizzard from restricting access to servers based on account origin or IP range. China does it. Korea does it. Blizzard could do it too if they wanted to.
Foreign countries cannot impose laws or “dictate” how US company’s operate!
Biggest issue is that level 60s and 70s are able to make M+ groups. (And yes this was already bug-reported).
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Maybe its time to lock the thread feels like its derailed.
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