The game’s a little over a week old and already gold spammer parasites are starting to spam players via chat and using the in-game mail system.
Thankfully, Mythic is taking a hard and pro-active approach to the problem. Within the first few days, they’ve banned 400+ accounts. I heard yesterday that number has now grown to over 2000 (EDIT: Current count as of the 27th is 4051!) and the count will probably continue to rise.
Mark Jacobs, co-founder of Mythic had some pretty strong words to say about gold spammers on his blog.
Yesterday, I received four or five gold spam Tells during my session and I got my first in-world junk mail message the other day. That may not seem so bad, but I can only see it getting worse as time goes on.
I’m happy that Mythic has a department who’s sole responsibility is hunting down and banning gold spammers. By nipping this crap in the bud, W:AR will be a whole lot more enjoyable for current and future players.
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did you report the spammers? i really like their stance on banning them, i hate getting spams in the in game mail (and random tells etc)
Yup, I started reporting spammers. I’ve installed the SpamMeNot W:AR interface add-on so now anyone who spams me is automatically blocked and reported. It’s also capable of doing fuzzy matches to get around text substitution obfuscation like l337 speak, adding spaces and non-letter characters etc…
I haven’t had anyone spam me yet with it enabled, but other players I’ve encountered have been telling me that it works really well.
where do you find add-ons for the game? i recieved a few gold spam tells last night but was too busy with scenarios to reply (too busy kicking ass in scenarios i might say, i often was #1 in damage dealt (one time i did 10K more damage than the next highest person) alas i am now level 12 and too high for the norden watch, so untill i find the next there will be no more scenarios for me
I go to Curse.com web site. You don’t have to download their automated add-on management client.
While it does make add-on management very convenient, after Oct. 6th, you have to be a paid member to use it.
Installing an add-on is usually as simple as downloading the add-on archived file, copying the contents of the add-on archive with full paths to the \Interface\Addons directory located in the game’s root directory. Uninstalling it is just as simple: delete the respective add-on’s directory.
The one add-on that’s probably mandatory is the LibSlash development library. A significant amount of add-ons utilize LibSlash to register their slash commands with the WAR interface.
There are a lot of add-ons that’ll make the interface a lot more practical and streamlined. Definitely worth checking them out.
I go to Curse.com web site. You don’t have to download their automated add-on management client.
While it does make add-on management very convenient, after Oct. 6th, you have to be a paid member to use it.
Installing an add-on is usually as simple as downloading the add-on archived file and copying the contents of the add-on archive with full paths to the \Interface\Addons directory located in the game’s root directory.
Uninstalling it is just as simple: delete the respective add-on’s directory.
The one add-on that’s probably mandatory is the LibSlash development library. A significant amount of add-ons utilize LibSlash to register their slash commands with the WAR interface.
There are a lot of add-ons that’ll make the interface a lot more practical and streamlined. Definitely worth checking them out.