I’ve always wondered why they don’t keep a handful of people on payroll to play as “undercover cops” of sorts, appearing and interacting like normal players and catching the most obvious gold selling advertisers and bots. Seems like a relatively cheap thing to do that would go a long way to keep all that under control.
People wanted the classic expierience and this is part of it; getting spammed in trade chat by people offering virtual currency for the real thing.
Further, there really isn’t anything Blizz can do to keep the god sellers out due to the fact that they can trivially swap IPs and buy new accounts.
I doubt they spam on the same accounts they farm the gold on lol. There’s no stopping them. These are huge groups of ant people in a room gathering resources for the hive. You report a spammer they make a new account. There’s literally nothing you can do to stop gold farming. What you can control is your reaction to the situation. If you just start seething every time you see a gold spam message then you’re allowing yourself to be upset (about a video game) once or twice a day…
Then it is clear that Blizzard does not monitor this PLAYER forum and consider every request here an urgent command they must obey! They are SO out of touch. Obviously if you say it, they must obey.
How do you know that? Who told you that? That is probably false. In your imagination, computers are intelligent. In reality they have an IQ of zero. They can only do things a person pre-programs them to do.
How can a Blizzard employee decide (in advance) what identifies each “ok” chat request or each “spammer” chat request? Remember, no human sees them. They don’t have 45,000 employees to monitor these. How can a computer program automatically do this?
accounts cost money to make… this is not a free to play game…you cost them enough money… they will go to a different game…they have to be able to support those huge groups of people
Its a simple patch. “Disabled the feature allowing players to invite people to chat channels.” This is not a vanilla like feature; its retail trash that was overlooked. It makes it that much harder for gold sellers to advertise.