Gold selling. More information, more showcasing

[Surviving]

So recently it has come to my attention that the chat is being filled with constant gold selling spam and numerous other selling services.

It has come to my attention that 2-3 “friends” of mine have bought it and are constantly flexing on me their quick progress through acquiring those materials, saying they got it from a “friend who quit the game”. This triggered me quite a bit, as with all honesty im a f2p player and seeing the economy go to shambles made me quite annoyed.

1 thing to be mentioned is how these gold sellers are making such a big amount. The market is too easily manipulated. We saw this occur with blue stones for tier 2 enhancing, where they skyrocketed from 7 on average, to 22 average in a span of 2 days. Some people selling gold have 1 million + gold in their wallets, and it only increases as every day passes.

I know I am being quite a cry baby but as someone who uses forums a lot, including service/boosting forums from league of legends era, I have to say the things I have seen are quite discouraging as an f2p player. No wonder the markets do not go down in price.

Please amazon, do a mass ban to everyone who is associated with those accounts. You have trillions of dollars in your disposal, why cant you hire a small team of 4 people to go around and buy the smallest sums of gold to ban these individuals? It literally only takes 5 minutes per gold seller. It’s not impossible. Sure there are a lot, but doing this will help the economy so much you do not even understand.

Also to mention, tier 3 materials are constantly being thrown around like a bloody piñata. Anyways, Please do something about this before its too late.

Furthermore, if amazon is interested, please message me on the forums. I am willing to provide over 200+ links of gold selling individuals to help you take down these issues. I do not expect a payment, this is volunteer work for a game that I love, and something that should be done immediately. Sure, we can say that it will not stop, but something must be done before it’s too late.

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regarding the botting fiasco, I understand you guys are saying you are working to fix it around the clock, but this has gone over the top, especially with the botting fiasco. It’s gotten so bad, that gold sellers, ill repeat have gotten up to 8 million gold each in every bloody server? think im joking? 1 second. Look down below.

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These are just a few sites.

I wish to give you an idea of how worthless gold is, in comparison to using money via amazon.
This has gotten too far and amazon needs to do something or the game is utterly thanos’ed.

[Surviving]

If something is not done urgently I fear of what might come of the economy.
@roxx please do something, or let this reach the devs.

[MLB7]

Did you report your friends?

[IvyRose]

So you are so spiteful that you want your own friends banned? Yikes.

[Thokri]

Economy already fucked due slow response.

Some kind of two-factor authentication would slow them A LOT but now there are only crude tools.

I don’t think it would be hard to make somekind of “I am human” check in-game where failing it would lock you out of game for second check which would be more sophisticated. Of course not constantly but for new accounts for certain time and older accounts that have received reports.

Banning bots and buyers permantently would be a start.

[skurjz]

don’t forget to report your flexing friends.

[Branwp]

Its cheaper right now on my server to buy gold from farmers then buy gems in game via currency exchange than it is to just buy gems in the shop. That cant possibly be good.

Also its reached a point already on the AH that if you dont buy gold in some way, whether in game or via a seller, you cant afford anything on the AH through normal means in game.

Economy is already ruined, but whats new? This is every MMO thats been released for the last 20 years, and it usually only takes 2 weeks to happen.

[TheGiggaChad]

Buyers need to be punished harsher, not only sellers. See my thread and share your opinion on current buyer punishments

Punishment for Gold Buying- A response from Amazon Support

Hello everyone, I just wanted to share an email response from amazon support regarding the punishment for buying gold. This was originally posted on reddit but taken down so I thought I would repost it here. [image] I personally feel as if this is by no means a good deterrent to RMT. Why is RMT stated to be against the rules and in the same category as cheating and botting yet the punishment is a 24 hour suspension IF caught and given several more chances to commit the offense again prior to …

[MLB7]

He should. Those people ruin every mmo.

[Surviving]

I do not think someone who pays to win is my friend, simple. He is part of the problem and thus why I removed him from my friend cycle.

[Snickers]

I hate to say it but I’m not confident anything will be done. I reported, through live chat with links, on the day of release of New World a gold seller on ebay. They thanked me profusely & said they’d take care of it right away. That gold seller is still on ebay, still selling New World gold. Nothing ever happened.

[Nekhebu]

@IvyRose

So you are so spiteful that you want your own friends banned? Yikes.

That’s called integrity. Something very many people nowadays are lacking.

[Gnade]

This is one game I am not reporting gold sellers. Because unlike Spanish people, these guys are spamming in English. I rather have my chat full of gold sellers, than Spanish bs.

[Arc]

It’s like Soviet era in here

[Elyndria]

Sadly Amazon has endorsed gold buying as a viable avenue with a slap on the wrist as punishment. You’d think they would care about their bottom line and the long term success of Lost Ark. Unfortunately I believe the economy is in an irrecoverable state, especially with these policies.

[jester376]

So basically Amazon will be like okay well allow it pretty much every time and may or may not considering banning people on the third offense. With this in mind, its as if Amazon itself intends to only ban players caught buying gold and do nothing about the bots. I honestly think Amazon and other MMO game providers low key have some kind of deal with these websites and make money off the side from them. Blizzard has these for years in WoW and everyone complained constantly but they didnt do anything for a long time. Then as soon as they released their own sub token buy and sell for gold system, all the spammers magically disappeared.