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Topic: Anti-RMT spam spam (Read 2821 times)
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Nerf
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As I signed onto DDO this afternoon, I was greeted with a lovely message from turbine, which basically amounted to
"Please don't buy gold, pretty please? With sugar on top? It's umm, bad"
Which really got me thinking, why not just send out their OWN spam, that looks surprisingly like all the other spam, and when someone places an order on their bait website, they get a nice month long timeout or so (it doesn't actually charge them for the gold, so no fraud)
Basically, instead of trying to go after the farmers, just make the players deathly afraid of actually buying gold.
Thoughts?
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Lantyssa
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Were it my company, I wouldn't want to get into the legal morass of proclaiming to offer a service and not delivering or asking for a credit card number even if it's dumped.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Nerf
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Well, I suppose you *could* actually deliver it, and then just ban them. Imagine the forum rants on that shit.
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Draegan
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That sounds like fraud or something.
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Lt.Dan
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More like a stupid tax. You could even put up a confirmation window when they receive the gold in-game.
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tmp
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POW! Right in the Kisser!
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Isn't DDO like, all instanced dungeon crawls and stuff? Just not sure why they'd even care in that particular game about people farming or buying the gold...
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Venkman
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Entrapment.
It also misdirects attention to the wrong part of the issue. Any game with any amount of DIKU and gear progression in it by nature compels RMT in enough people to form a huge industry around it. So either you draft off of that (Korean model) or design a different game (FPS, for example). Otherwise, all you're really doing is flipping farmers the bird with one hand while collecting their subscription fees in the other.
This is not truly a problem that is going to be fixed.
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IainC
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Interestingly one of the biggest games for unsanctioned RMT (at least here in the West, I don't claim to have a strong overview of the Korean market) is Runescape. A D&D clone by the numbers browser based game.
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shiznitz
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Entrapment Entrapment is not applicable in civil law as far as I know. It is purely a criminal thing, meant to protect civilians from government abuse. Abetting your customers' violation of the EULA so that you can punish them is probably not good for the legal authority of EULAs in the long run. |
I have never played WoW.
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