Whats up with Virgoods?

If ANet wouldn't mind sharing a little power, I'd enjoy (I have a part-time devious mind) hunting down and banning those accounts myself for a half-hour/hour every evening or two.

Shoot, I'd do it for free, just to keep this game from being Diablo-ized.

Alex, Gaile... you reading this?

"Congratulations on 100M GW golds sold per day!!Cheap gold $.99/1000k On SALE!!! go2 http://www.cheese.com!!"
"rofl"
"I better check out cheese.com.."
'HOW MUCH DO THEY PAY YOU TO DO THIS!?!?!"
"I might have reported you if I didn't see the cheese."
"I HOPE U DY!!"

Yeah.. Always report the people who tease.

i've seen them around in a lot of places, i just ignore them i can care less on what they're doing as long as they leave me alone i can care less, but the thing i do hate is those b!tches that report people for like bad conduct like swearing most of the time if your in an arguement with people like them who they report you are the ones who usually start it, i think there's just to many narks in guildwars

they are called botters ... they farm cash and sell it for real life money like ige ... I see them in tombs now too ... just spamming away like every 45 seconds ... I am act5ually surprised that Anet is losing the bot battle (imo Alex) to these guys. Especially after there last interview about farming. I am sure Anet will eventually gain the upper hand in this bot battle, but in the mean time its unfortunate that the community has to put up with these marketers ... next step we will see porn ads and then pow, game over.

If you catch them spamming it just take a screenshot and send it to Anet, they will ban there accounts.

for example ... I saw virgoods.com spamming with a guy named "bot one two" kinda gives it away in his name, but i never screen capped it because I had more important thing to attend to ... (1 handed healing random pugs thrpugh thunderhead keep ... a challenge set by my guild to me) *chuckle*

It would be nice if distracting shot worked on spambots in town. Although I'd never get anything else done...

hey Hexin

check out my thread...
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=71333

You'd think they'd but an internal chat filter on to flag certain words and characters, like "virgoods" and "$," then send a CSR right to the scene of the crime to inspect.

LOL whenever i see virgoods i curse my ass off at them it;s quite funny
like this :---- OFF U MOTHER ------- DIKHEAD ----HEAD GAME ------- ----- OF CRACKHEAD ----VILE I SHOULD SHOVE THE PLATS UP YOUR ---

lol everyone laughs when i do it and i even out spam the virgoods for a laugh but they usualy win

heh ... I checked it out, thank you for your compliments ... but the group only won cause of the team, you played a key role at a critical moment and may have saved a costly error when the king got into the middle of the fray<? mix of things ...

Distracting Shot doesn't work on shouts. Arcane Theivery is a much better choice in that situation.

Anyways, I hope A-net thinks of a solution before this gets out of hand.

The truely sad thing is, for them to have a service like this, and create all those accounts to do in-game advertising, they actually have to have a decent sized clientelle. I will never, ever, understand why someone would pay real money, for game money/eq that is FREE! The only thing you have to spend to get it is time. If these people buying this stuff have that much money to throw away, throw a little to your left so I can grab some. I'm sure I can find a helluva lot better ways to spend it.

Time is money. 1h = 10$ for most, 1h = 200$ for some. "Time" (better the work you can do in this amount of time) is the most important thing, oil is nothing more then liquid "time" (or better work).

So let me make a calculation:
UAS costs from 300 (the amount of mindless grind hours)*10$ (the amount you could make "grinding" at some medicore job) = 3000$ to 3000*10$ if you would do an MCJob instead. Buying a fully unlocked account for 500$ leaves you with 2500$ profit AT WORST.
Note that even in places with few jobs, time can still be spend to search for good deals, lowered prices, good insurance or just education, which increases your chances to get a better job.

What makes you better then the spammers then?
If you think cussing at a Bot is funny, Sorry but you need to get out more.

Exactly.

I have been reporting them as fast as I find them... I encourage others to do the same. and they are also monitoring logs of their current stomping grounds.

From: GM Moggie & GM Jason ArenaNet Support
How to report a violation.. OFFICIAL...
Lastly. add them to your friends list.. I know like Why would I do that right? well its nice to see when they ban the account, as the current privacy policy prevents them telling you if they actually did so. but when you see their account change to (BANNED)... guess what? you just got a confirmation...

Thanks for helping keep the community free of RoC breakers...

=HT=Ingram.

Basically you summed it up right there... people buy gold off eBay and companies like this made spammer since not everyone has all the time in the world.

I for example work 40 hours a week, leaving me about 2 hours to play the game if I'm lucky... so based on the fact it would take 300 hours to get all skills unlocked that means it would take me about 150 days of playing this game every day for 2 hours to unlock it. This isn't taking mindless farming, PvP/GvG and PvE into account as well.

I hate how people say... "Why buy gold? Just farm"... not everyone is unemployeed, in school, able to play at work, or just plain has more free time then others.

I have little gold in this game since I don't have 6 free hours a day to farm for items to sell... and I have a life

So while I do agree that buying gold is now against the rules and wrong... I think I understand why people buy it... afterall some of us have better things to do in our time then play this game 16 hours a day.

you couldn't pay me 1000k to go to that site, screams"keylogger" to me.

i actually met a guy ingame (whilst i was extracting the urine from the spambot) who had tried to buy money from this site.
he said that they didn't deliver the money. he still seems to have his account though.

"possibly" because hes still in game, and you cant log in twice.

We need a quick report system in game, to report things like this instantly. T_T