Avatar and his ads
I'm going to assume that he/she is using throw away EJ type accounts for this as he/she switches them up often. Any chance you can add yet another limitation to EJ accounts and make it where they can't join any channel but the Help channel ? Is that asking too much ? @Kyronix @Mesanna @Bleak
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Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
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The advertising spiel by the "Avatar"gives such a bad, bad impression of the game and I'm really disappointed that the dev team hasn't been able to find a way to quash those accounts that are blatantly violating the ToS. That in-your-face and never-ending complete disregard for the rules every 15 or 20 minutes has, in my opinion, done a lot of damage to the game. It constantly sends the message that no one seems to care about enforcing the rules, or worse yet, it eventually can lead one to the conclusion that perhaps someone on the dev team is connected to that website and therefore has no interest in stopping the advertising for it. Of course, no one can prove that, but it isn't much of a leap to draw that conclusion. And, if that is the case, how many people eventually start to ask themselves if they want to keep pouring money into the game if that is what is really going on.
It really needs to stop and I certainly don't understand why nothing's been done about it over all these years and why that website was given an even wider audience when Endless Journey was introduced. If nothing else, I would expect the dev team to at least put something on the intro screen and in the newsletter reminding people that in-game advertising is prohibited. I can certainly remember Jeremy making an issue out of it in the past and the hubbub some of her comments caused. Can't understand why that attitude from game officials eventually seemed to go away.
In the same period of time, the GMs apparently were able to catch the following other violations:
807 unattended macroing
164 multiboxing
107 disruptive behavior
58 duping
13 abusing game mechanics
12 naming violations
7 harrassment
4 illegal house design
2 exploitation
1 staff impersonation
So why can't they catch and action the illegal advertiser who spams all day and night throughout the game? It's not like no one knows where the character shows up, for goodness' sake.
The only way to stop him would be if everybody boycotted his site and anyone who used it.
God knows there is no shortage of gold resellers who don't advertise or are at least discreet about it. Last time I "googled" it I came up with 4 or 5 sites. (sad but true)
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
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Im not accusing them of this, as I am sure a big company like EA would not do such a thing which they would also have to hide from investors.
But its still a thing that makes you go hmmmmmmm
Catch him on the spot - he logs in, spiels and logs out, young char, no time out. Gone in seconds, and can have a new [young] several times per day.
Block his ip address - vpn
block his web address - someone suggested that some months ago on Stratics. The devs listened. We got "w e b a d d r e s s" in place.
Next idea?
Instead of suggesting the devs are involved, how about thinking they're as frustrated by the damn man as the rest of us? They should pay someone to sit on the spot in Haven 24/7 on every shard?
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
- Write a program to monitor chat and flag messages about selling gold. A real person would be checking the results periodically and entering the website addresses into a list to squelch in chat. Beforehand I would have already added to the squelch list a multitude ol spacing variants of the website's name..
- Disallow the use of "Avatar" in the names of newly-created characters. Investigate and monitor any accounts that already have characters with this name or variations thereof.
- Prohibit newly-created characters from using chat for a set period of time. This prohibition could obviously be overruled for characters on accounts used by Broadsword contractors/employees.
- Disallow newly-created characters from being able to paste text into chat or regular conversations for an even longer period of time. Ditto the above for overruling the prohibition on certain classes of accounts.
- On newly-created characters, disable the function of any macro actions that create typed text for a similar period of time. Ditto the override comment above and there would be obvious exceptions for "commands" that actually make something happen in the game, e.g., commanding a pet to follow or kill or releasing or locking down items.
- Disallow newly-created characters from using a pre-typed, canned text-creating application like UOWedding for a similar period of time. Ditto the override comment above.
- Aggressively ban accounts that use older characters to spam gold- and item-selling website information. These would be identified by monitoring the program mentioned at the top of the list.
The only way BS itself could stop him is to under cut him on the UO store. Of course we could stop him if NO ONE would deal with him.
His spam always seems to come out right after I make a comment in gen chat. Then I have to wait and wonder if people saw my comment or did his spam hide it.
I also wish the uo community would stop supporting these people, there is no reason for it. They have a cash shop now. People should not be supporting the cheaters living by buying thier illegal stuff. I just hope one day they ban them all. They 1000 percent could find these people, I mean I have found them it isn't hard, and if I can find them so could the game masters.
Makes me wonder like you said are the developers so corrupt they get paid by these low life people who do that? Who knows kinda weird they dont ban these people.
As for worthless avatar they could stop him easy enough for some reason they dont want to? There are a bunch of excuses people give as to why he cant be stopped, but I think they either support him or are him. As i said just go to his website make a deal as the developer, find his in game name, review all the people who made transaction with the low life, and ban them all. Then call pay pal, and say listen this guy is using your site to sell illegal items from my corporations intellectual property here is the transaction, I need his funds seized and his account banned. End of story. It literally would take them like 8 hours to get him out of the picture.
He probably isn't in the usa, but if he is like I know some of these low life are, they could inform the IRS too, I am sure they evade taxes.
uses the same AD over and over it seems
you would think they could some how block this WW in all channels
very annoying to say the least it’s like a commercial every 15 minutes or so (never timed them)
I’m sure the devs are working on this there’s no way they want this kinda disrespect in there game
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
The only easy fix that has a chance of working is for people to stop dealing with the a-- hole.
Enough people obviously are to make it worth his time and effort.
Once again my solution is once a month for someone at Broadsword to check out the web and put anything they find on sale there on the UO store. As with music if there is a simple and legal source most people will go with it rather than the shady (in this case another word that starts with s) source.
the team could make a lot of money from the store if they sold gold there
and a retouch tool to change mount color lol