The Plane of Spammerwrath

[Falco_Easts]

This is not the section of the forum to be debating how rude it is for people to be in vent please find a different place to post if you wish to discuss this.

Nor is it a good place to necro a thread

[Xynot2]

If I have some one who is annoying me, I should be able to block them from ALL chat. Furthermore, I think it should be added to the guild charter that spamming the general chat for membership is against the charter OR be able to block the ENTIRE guild. Would love to figure out how to add a timer to the trade spammers too. But then they would just flood general chat like they do already. Seriously think that the part in the EULA about under 18 being supervised by a parent be implimented MUCH more frequently. Might wanna throw in an DnD IQ test to limit the amount of idiots but... I digress. Maybe you could put in a tutorial about ediquette to help stem the spammer tide

[jackel_inognito]

what is all this about plat farmers? they sell plat through tell? aso what do you mean trial?

sorry for being a newbie

[Falco_Easts]

what is all this about plat farmers? they sell plat through tell? aso what do you mean trial?

sorry for being a newbie

They used to be a problem. They have pretty much been wiped out in DDO now.

You used to get a lot of tells about websites to buy play and items for real money. THis is a big no no.

[Zectarash]

what is all this about plat farmers? they sell plat through tell? aso what do you mean trial?

sorry for being a newbie

I've managed to piece together that you used to have to pay to play at all after a "Free Trial".

[Fr33kSh0w2012]

Hi, I would like to start my 2 cents worth with a "Good Job" on the mailbox spam, It was why I left the game because of the mailbox issue and I came back when it was fixed. Now to the problem at hand. I have a few ideas, and I think that any of them or any part of them may prove useful.

One idea would be to make sure that ALL ddo trial accounts had to dish out real life money, in order to actually use the game, and that if after a week trial they dont like it, they simply email Turbine for a full refund which freezes the account and makes it inactive. Also, if a trial account gets reported by more then 5 people then it automatically gets frozen, and the paid amount gets forfeighted until it is disproved that they were spamming. If at any time they are found to be spamming, the account is forfeight, turbine keeps the purchase price, and the owner gets reported to a government agency for whatever they can be done for automatically in an email.

My other idea is this: Restrict tells, to 1) people on the friends list (like mail) or their accounts whos characters you have tagged for tells. or, to 2) people in the same raid or group as you , hence you could communicate with all of them in private without any problem, 3) tells from other people , if you recieve A TELL, from a player, instead of the tell coming to you if NOT on your Friends list, or raid or group it AUTOMATICALLY sends you a tell from ddo saying "Xxxx" is trying to communicate with you via a tell, and you click either ACCEPT or REJECT, (WITH a toggle to either "Automatically accept non friendly tells" so that in a dungeon or raid you could switch the ability of others to send you tells without having to click accept or reject mid fight. IF you have the
Automated Accept / Reject toggled to ON, then you press accept, too bad for you if you cop the spam tell, for those who want to pay for plat, this gives them the option to buy to their hearts content. If you click Reject, ddo Automatically sends the Spammer a tell in reply saying "xxxx" rejected your tell, please try again later. If you have it switched off due to raid "xxxx" is in a raid or instance, and has this feature turned off. Please feel free to contact them again later.

Just a couple of starter ideas. Perhaps you could work on these as a base for keeping alive the fun of the game instead of copping a tell every hour or two. It would be like "xxxx" has cast greater teleport to Gianthold, click Accept to teleport or cancel to reject, you could even put a timer on it for say 10 seconds, in case people want to RAID and accept spammer tells.

Vorpalsword (khyber)
Vorpalmonk (khyber)
Dragonmonk (khyber)
Yamantaka (khyber)
Trapdoor (khyber)
Fabled (khyber)
Lazybones (khyber)
Royalpain (khyber) and so on...

Same reason I left I'm Downloading update 9 now Spammers are EVIL if I ever found out some-one did it with my account I would go ballistic

[2x4]

*KAPOW*

Gersniffle the Looter, Kobald Barbarian, snarks and snips and spins wildly and then promptly pokes his own eye out with dual wielded sugar cane clubs of virtue +1. The dusty cloud raised dissipates..... *KAPOW*.... (Gersniffle is gone ??? )

[weddingly]

why is selling plat for real money a big nono?

spammity SPAM SPAM PAAPAPAPAMAMAM!!!! OMG IM ASPAMMININININ!!!!! hm OK NOW EVERYONE EHEHEEHEHEHEHEHEEHEHEHEH OOOPPPAAAA im a weasel wehey !

[Callavan]

Okay, as best I can tell, this is the situation:

1) Someone ripped off a plat farmer
2) Plat farmer is mad so he spams an email calling "someone" a liar

Is that right?

If so, who is the ripoff artist, and what were his techniques?

To me this sounds more like one of those idiotic marketing maneuvers that try to use reverse psychology to drum up interest by shocking people into "investigating" the service in question.


Sorta like "DON'T buy our product..."

[Tarrell]

with.... spam. You need to remember only 4 things during your visit here in the Plane of Spammerwrath...

[INDENT]1. No naming names

If you're going to talk about the spammers, remove any reference to their names.

Why protect them by not naming them? You are just another typical MMO company that does NOTHING about them simply because you earn money from them as well.

[Falco_Easts]

Why protect them by not naming them? You are just another typical MMO company that does NOTHING about them simply because you earn money from them as well.

Which is why spam has pretty much disappeared completely in this game. Good call. You nailed it.

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

I like the name of "Spammerwrath". Do devils come from this plane ?

[Aaxeyu]

I like the name of "Spammerwrath". Do devils come from this plane ?

No, not devils but necromancers.

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

"Necromancer" is my third ... fourth ? fifth ? ... name !

[paraplegic]

if you were a pizza, what kind of pizza would you be?

[the613]

RAWR!!!

ok, rant over

[Symerith]

Ok, we've all played games full of bots, the most annoying bots being those selling stuff for RL money.
I certainly don't mind crafting bots (for crafting hall) or for turning in things (like festivult) although turbine forbiddens it.

But this is not acceptable. None of us want DDO to become like WoW.



Taken on Thelanis 12/20/2012

[Stormanne]

This is nothing new. We used to have a huge problem with plat and leveling bots back when the game first started. Even during the great content drought/player exodus of 2008, we still had a huge number of bots. Hell, there were days that you could log in to Sarlona and there would be more bots than actual players.

[HalfORCastrator]

They have existed for a long while here. They sent in-game mail to me before, I copy+pasted to post in guild chat to ask my guildies about it. A bit after that I got out of a quest and, meaning to advertise a trade offer and forgetting about the earlier copy+paste, posted it into the public trade channel. 2-3 minutes later I was booted from game and banned. I assume someone reported me. I got no chance to explain myself to a GM or anyone else. Took me a week, multiple emails and multiple calls to DDO Customer Service. I suggest reporting them, they get banned extremely easily.

[bigolbear]

Hey turbine...

legalise this and your player base will undercut them to death!