The day the gold spammers died

[Steph]

We don't want people killing random low level players or bank alts. But the key difference between those and the gold spammers is the character age.
I doubt that a gold spammer ever gets past 1h /played. It would be possible to use not only level but also character age for a mechanism to keep our chat channels clean.

It would be funny to have the anti-rogue npcs cut down gold spammers, or maybe even funnier have yellow level 1 beasts attack them.

[vreid]

No possibilty to interact with anyone till level 6. I mean no chatting, no mail, no trading, no /who requests, no groups,... nothing besides leveling and questing. level 6 is roughly 30 minutes of playtime, no one will get hurt by that. even if you have 4+ bank alts, level one every day and it's ok.

[Ifalna]

No possibilty to interact with anyone till level 6. I mean no chatting, no mail, no trading, no /who requests, no groups,... nothing besides leveling and questing. level 6 is roughly 30 minutes of playtime, no one will get hurt by that. even if you have 4+ bank alts, level one every day and it's ok.

Then the starting areas are filled with tiny bots, which are worse. The answer as always is for people to stop being greedy pricks and buying gold.
Anything blizzard implement will be bypassed.

Spam reports? Use emotes.
No access to main channels? Hack thousands of accounts from idiots clicking on " Omg be awesome wow cheat site lolol!!11" links.
Have to be level 6? Bot.

Its a nasty business, and the player base are the only folk to blame for the situation.

[Khazrael]

Its a nasty business, and the player base are the only folk to blame for the situation.

It sucks, but this is certainly true. The only reason they exist is because they do make a profit, which means wow players are buying gold. I have to come clean and admit that I have bought gold once pre-boxing, so I'm guilty as anyone. /Shame.

I was young... I.. I needed the gold, I didn't know what else to do!

/cry.

[Eteocles]

You can no longer say I fail Khaz :P I've never had much gold on any char...but I simply do without instead of buying, just one less thing earned/accomplished if I skip the journey to it

[Ifalna]

I will never forget 2 years back my bf got power levled 20 levels despite numerous warnings from me, then got hacked a few days later.

And I lolled so hard.

A year or so ago, people where not really aware of the perils of gold buying etc, but with the amount of publicity it gets now, ya don't really have an excuse anymore.

[Khazrael]

Right on the money fur. The epic (land) mount was the reason why I bought some. I only even bought a couple hundred to help me along the way as well. Grinding money sucked back then.

[Eteocles]

You both suck. :P