In the recently released SF-MMO WildStar, players have been targeted by gold sellers from the very beginning. They still annoy players with arena invites and in-game mail. Additionally, a bug over the weekend caused a gold turmoil, costing some players their fortune and nerves.
Carbine wants to crush Gold Sellers
In most other MMOs, they are as common in the capitals’ chats as questions about Manrik’s wife in the Barrens or a cheerful “L2P Noobs” at the end of MOBA matches: the gold seller spam. The good news: there is none of that in WildStar. The bad news: instead, players regularly receive personalized spam, disguised as nice mail or even as arena invites.
The creators of WildStar declared war on spam and announced that they would crush the gold sellers.
We’re working on stopping Gold Sellers using Arena/Friend invites to advertise. Like the Lannister’s cousin we will crush them. KUH KUH KUH!
— WildStar (@WildStar) June 11, 2014
In a thread on mmorpg.com discussing the matter, players wonder why anyone would buy from gold sellers. After all, their prices are way too bad. Through the C.R.E.D.D. system, players can get much more for their euros.
The absence of gold seller spam is also positively noted by users on mmorpg.com; one even said that Carbine had done more against gold sellers in two weeks than other publishers in months or even years.
Carbine even destroys player wealth temporarily
Over the weekend, some players who had accumulated a fortune were shocked to find their gold supplies suddenly depleted. However, neither hackers nor robbers were responsible for this, but rather a mistake from Carbine. The EU authentication server briefly classified players as guests.
Guest accounts are limited to a moderate two-digit gold amount; therefore, anything over that was temporarily liquidated. Carbine has already fixed the error, the servers were briefly down, and they apologize for the inconvenience and will now send players the money via mail.
