Gold farmers - how is GF going to handle this?

    It didn't take a long time before we saw the first gold farmers in the chat, sadly enough.

    Maybe there can't do much harm besides trick some poor souls to get there account hacked.

    So it would be very nice to hear what GF will do about it.

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    It didn't take a long time before we saw the first gold farmers in the chat, sadly enough.

    Maybe there can't do much harm besides trick some poor souls to get there account hacked.

    So it would be very nice to hear what GF will do about it.

    It's not really possible to "farm" gold - traditionally (aka killing mobs on hours)
    All the currency/income etc you get, is coming from achievments and quests (dailies, weeklies) so everything is regulated. one can only have X amount of money - physically possible within a certain amount of time. And a lot of things are actually account wide (such as collectible for example).
    At least thats from what I see, so I wonder how there even can be gold farmers/sellers, and not just straight up scammers? o.o

    When you see someone who sells in-game money for real life money please take a screenshot

    and hand it over to our support via the ticket system (department: game). They will take care of it.


    Exception:

    Selling carmine coins for in-game gold is okay, even if some may try to scam.

    In that case take screenshots of the entire trade agreement.

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    It didn't take a long time before we saw the first gold farmers in the chat, sadly enough.

    Maybe there can't do much harm besides trick some poor souls to get there account hacked.

    So it would be very nice to hear what GF will do about it.

    It's not really possible to "farm" gold - traditionally (aka killing mobs on hours)
    All the currency/income etc you get, is coming from achievments and quests (dailies, weeklies) so everything is regulated. one can only have X amount of money - physically possible within a certain amount of time. And a lot of things are actually account wide (such as collectible for example).
    At least thats from what I see, so I wonder how there even can be gold farmers/sellers, and not just straight up scammers? o.o

    Yes I know it's not possible like in other MMO's, it's just that everyone knows what a Goldfarmer is, kinda like the Universe language for them :)

    I was just more concerned about them, trying to hack another players account and wanted GF to speak out about how it's handle.

    I took some screenshots and will write a ticket soon. Thanks for the reply and information.

    Oh I see, got it XD

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    I was just more concerned about them, trying to hack another players account and wanted GF to speak out about how it's handle.

    as far as i know, you can't really hack an account. Most accounttheft is done via accountsharing or low security measures like a password like this "abc123". And both of those, is on you if you do one of them.

    Or even Impersonating as an employee or so and ask for the data, but for this its also on you.. since we or any employee would never ask you for this info.

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    I was just more concerned about them, trying to hack another players account and wanted GF to speak out about how it's handle.

    as far as i know, you can't really hack an account. Most accounttheft is done via accountsharing or low security measures like a password like this "abc123". And both of those, is on you if you do one of them.

    Or even Impersonating as an employee or so and ask for the data, but for this its also on you.. since we or any employee would never ask you for this info.

    Just to say, that anything can happen if the hackers want your account and if you fall for any of there smart tricks, but it is really nice to know how our account is safe in that way.

    I just really hope that it does not happen to anyone at all, but MMO's are in general a tacget for anyone to scam real money out with RMT.


    Thanks for the reply :)

    There are guys that have started selling "boosts" in game and directing players to their discord servers too. Sellers do this in World of Warcraft in a similar fashion, but when the player gets on their discord servers the boosts are sold for real cash not game currency.

    The first one I saw looked like a legitimate service offering carries for dungeon runs/boss kills.

    That can be done without breaking any rules - maybe even for real money depending on how rmt is defined by GF.


    But the second one also offered boosts for stuff like gathering which obviously requires them to log into your account.

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    There are guys that have started selling "boosts" in game and directing players to their discord servers too. Sellers do this in World of Warcraft in a similar fashion, but when the player gets on their discord servers the boosts are sold for real cash not game currency.

    Was searching (Duck Duck Go) Swords of Legends for various rotation guides this morning, there is a link on the search engine already for dungeon boosts at $12 per boost, didn't even need to click on the site, as it was in the brief description underneath.

    If gameforge allow these guys to continue it'll get out of hand real fast once the word gets out if there's money to be made, example being wow which i mentioned earlier. On there the chat, group finder, everything is just boost sales spam and regular players can't use the chat without addons filtering it all out.


    Personally, i really don't want to see solo go down that road since i'm having a blast playing it right now :)