Aion Gold Spam, it is really over 9000

Gold Spammers are curious beasts.  They toil away endlessly, either through manipulating in game economies or endless grinding of high value mobs to stockpile a sufficient amount of currency to deliver to the masses.  For those that have money but no time, they are a godsend.  Vice versa they are a nuisance since many believe there to be a moral standard in video games (read: there isn’t one you *******)

If you’ve ever played an MMO, there’s no doubt you been spammed in some way.  For many readers here, there experience with them is mainly related to WoW.  For myself, I never felt that it was a gigantic problem in WoW and I cold withstand the odd message/mail here and there.  To Blizzard’s credit they have implemented a lot of features to reduce spam; almost to the point where I found it practically non-existent other than the hilarious corpse advertisements in Stormwind.  When I decided I was going to play Aion, I knew that spam was going to be inevitable and I’d just have to buck up and put up with it.  However, what I didn’t expect was the ball-wrenching magnitude of spam that I was about to experience.  If you raged at WoW spam, you’ll probably go and murder someone due to the spamming in this game.

I present Exhibit gAy of what players are experiencing in game.  It only takes no more than 6-10 seconds for the spam at the bottom of that screenshot to be knocked off.  Now, NC Soft did supposedly put in a fix not too long ago where you could not do more than one message in LFG every 30 seconds.  However, this doesn’t seem to be working as seen in Exhibit Aussie.  It’s no wonder you have people raging in forums about NC Soft being in league with the spammers and stuff like this only serves to further convince players.

 

In the context of Aion goes, I have no idea what they can do to prevent this.   The LFG is a global channel which makes it easily accessable to spammers and the drive that they show to remind me that Kinah has nearly lost half its value per 1M since the launch is pretty questionable as far as marketing goes.  How many people are going to consider buy gold from you if all you do is annoying the **** out of them? (jk azns can’t be reasoned with).  Right now the only reasonable solution I’ve found is when I log on to spend the first 5 min blocking all the bots since GMs are practically non-existent.  Sure, it stinks having to maintain a messy block list but I don't expect NC Soft to actually come up with a long term fix any time soon.
 

If I had an ounce of drive in my body, I would totally start an online campaign to spam the hell out of the Aion twitter accounts here  here and here) with the exact same **** we’re getting in game but I’m sure that people like the 4chan **** that romp around on Asmo - Siel would be more up to that kind of tom******y.  Until then, have fun grinding and don't wish too many threats on the Chinese race.

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