Aion patches, denies whispers

The only solution is taking an aggresive stance on banning people advertising gold selling - I saw a gold spammer next to the Trade Broker the other day - he was lvl 25! I thought, how has this guy made it this far spamming his gold selling shit, without getting a ban?

They need to add a "report spam" option, so GMs can recieve a lsit of reported people, check the chatlog, and if they see a gold selling message there, BAM, ban that account, no questions asked. That is pretty much how bliz do it.

If its this bad now, I dont even want to imagine how bad it would be once free trials start. At least now gold spammers have to pay for their gold spamming antics.

Listen guys... there is a LOT more going on in this Aion game that simply doesn't "fit".

Some examples? The pre launch hype this game had with the so called 3.5 M players. Of course NCSoft never confirmed this. They only could give 41K servers for 400 Korean and 113 server for a whopping 1M Chinese at launch.
But never did they have the servers even for having 3.5M in the east as clearly their server park was for 10K players for 1 server (of which 7K concurrently).

Now enters the western market. Xfire shows very wacky player results of .... 1 million Aion players in the west on Xfire. Extremely unlikely, Impossible even with ... 14US and 16EU servers. NCSoft again said themselves they had "almost" 400 K at launch. XFire showed also the "average" Xfire players were at ... 7.5 hours playing time each day for ... weekdays. So it is very clearly these samples of Xfire are being tempered with (a pity siince the samples always worked for other games).

The extreme manipulation of these figures before launch (and even after) shows a LOT is going on in this game which simply isn't backed up with the technical info we can trace;

Being the number of servers which can hold "players" !!!!

The gold sellers swarm and Gameguard farce this game has gone through means simply Aion is in the hands of the gold diggers maffia.

It all began in a big and massive wave in Wow and Aion will see 100x time worse effects.

The laugh of it all is that the game is mediocre at best.

Korean all the way through even by manipulating stats and gold.

Maybe NCSoft should take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_spam_filtering

Might be too hard for their programmers to implement though ;)

This is a quick fix to the spamming problem I also want to see a report as spam button that also delivers a report to the GMs.

And please NC, start banning some accounts. :/ I know they are pretty busy right now, but the earlier this is dealt with the healthier your western population will remain.

Ask the author of SpamSentryhow his addon works. A few lines of code in a client side addon has prevented me from seeing any spam for the past couple years.

The only real fix is for game companies to stop using economies based on tradeable in-game currencies. Remove the gold.

There must be dozens of other systems that could be used to give players an in-game economy without allowing player-to-player currency trading.

As weird as it sounds, I don't blame NCsoft anymore. After years of playing L2 I know that NCsoft GM's have NEVER been willing to ban botters or implement a chat spam solution to the point where it has made a noticeable difference. They make great PVP games, but they do not police them. They never have and history dictates that they never will.

The people who expect Blizzard, Mythic, or even Funcom levels of policing, customer service, and patch development must have done zero research before plunking down their money for Aion.

The game will be fun. NCsoft will not ban botters. Check the L2 boards or spend five years finding out for yourself.