In der vergangenen Nacht wurde von Chris Cleary (Game Security Lead) im englsichen Guild Wars 2 Forum
ein Statement veröffentlicht, welches besagt und darauf hinweist, dass nun auch härtere Schritte gegen Echtgeld-Goldkäufer unternommen werden. Das Ganze wird aber natürlich auch ausführlich erklärt.
Goldseller kennen wir alle. Die meisten dürften diese im Spiel entweder ignorieren oder direkt melden (melden ist zu empfehlen). Gegen Goldseller wird schon lange (und wird auch weiterhin) vorgegangen. Goldseller verkaufen "ihr" Gold gegen echtes Geld an Spieler, die bereit sind dafür zu zahlen. Das große Problem an der Sache: Die Goldseller kommen nicht über ehrliche Methoden an das Gold. Chris Cleary geht in einem zweiten Post
näher auf die Methoden (gehackte Accounts, Betrug und Bots) ein und wo genau das Problem liegt.
Außerdem erklärt Chris zusätzlich warum auch Goldkäufer ein Problem darstellen. Denn anders als Goldseller, die dem Spiel durch ihr Tun definitiv schaden, ist die Absicht von Goldkäufern eigentlich, sich durch mehr Gold noch mehr in das Spiel einbringen zu können und diese Möglichkeit bietet sich hier über echtes Geld. Das Schädliche an diesem Verhalten ist aber ganz klar, dass diejenigen, die sich auf diesem Weg Gold kaufen, die Goldseller weiter motivieren und das schadet im Endeffekt der Wirtschaft des Spiels (ausführlichere Erklärung des Ganzen findet ihr in Chris Clearys zweitem Post
).
Chris Cleary stellt zwar nochmal klar, dass Goldseller zu finden und ihr Treiben zu unterbinden die höhere Priorität hat. ABER jetzt wird eben auch deutlicher gegen Goldkäufer vorgegangen. Was das bedeutet,wird auch noch klargestellt: Die Folge vom Kaufen von Goldsellern variiert dabei von "Entfernung des Wohlstandes" bis hin zu temporären Banns oder Permabanns (je nachdem ob man aus Fehlern lernt oder halt nicht).
Was lernen wir daraus? Kein Gold von Goldsellern kaufen, kein Problem!!
Originalmeldung (erster Post)
:
ZitatHey all,
We have been fairly relaxed since launch on players purchasing wealth from “Real Money Traders”, but that stops now. We will be taking a very active stance against RMT buyers from here on out.
The purchasing of wealth from these “Real Money Traders” violates our Rules of Conduct. These traders are often a cause for fraud, hacking, and identity theft.
Repercussions from purchasing wealth can result in removal of wealth and continued purchasing could result in action against your account including temporary suspension or permanent ban from the game.
Originalmeldung (zweiter Post):
ZitatAlles anzeigenThere are some very valid comments here, and addressing concerns with facts may be the best way to do this. We always try to be the most open and honest with our community, so here it goes.
“I thought ArenaNet always perm banned all gold buyers!!!11!”
This is not true, and will never be true for Guild Wars 2. To explain this, I must first explain the differences in impact on a game between Gold Buyers and Gold Sellers and their punishments.
Gold Sellers
Gold Sellers (or RMT) has a singular objective in any MMO, and that is to make real money profit. They accomplish this through multiple different means, and it has varying different impacts on the game it is targeting. For Guild Wars 2, the main way that RMT targets us is through Account Compromises, Fraud, and Botting.
For Account Compromises, the impact is obvious on both a global and a personal level. RMT Gold Spam, Phising mails both in-game and out are the global impact. We have always been swift to action this type of activity in our game, however the cycle continues due to players who fall for scams and phishing getting their accounts compromised. Every time an account is compromised, that wealth is redistributed through the economy, causing yet another but less visible global impact. In the coming weeks and months we will be introducing more systems to help users protect themselves and help protect them automatically.
For anyone who has ever had their account compromised, I guarantee it feels personal and it’s not fun (please use Mobile Authenticator, PLEASE!).
Fraud, while I can’t talk much publically about this (for obvious reasons), it falls under the “the silent but deadly” category. It can have a much larger impact on a game than one might think. ArenaNet will never and has never budged on this, and we will always take strict and decisive action against any account or organizations that attempt to commit fraud against us.
Botting probably has the most visual representation in-game that everyone can see. However, botting has so many different sides to it, I could go on for days. We’ve banned more bots than I care to admit, and over time it has become less and less likely that a player will run into a bot. It’s easy to take the stance “I always see bots”, but I also know that the community has been fantastic at reporting them when they do eventually come into contact with them. We are never going to fully get rid of bots, that’s always going to be the case for any MMO. I do think we are doing a fairly good job of minimizing the impact that bots have on the game and gameplay experience of players.
Gold Buyers
Now to Gold Buyers, and their impact. It’s very easy to claim that players that purchase RMT Gold are the root cause of all the problems above. Often I see the argument presented “If they didn’t buy gold, RMT would go out of business”. You know what, I agree with you. However, it’s never going to be that simple (unless you are Diablo 3, hah).
Gold Buyers are the complete opposite of Gold Sellers. They want to spend money so that they can participate in the game the way they want to. Instead of creating wealth in the economy maliciously, they are instead using that wealth they acquire to stimulate the economy by purchasing within it. Their methods of acquiring these things are no different than they would be in real life, they just happen to be furthering the chain of impact from Gold Sellers.
So, the difference becomes malicious intent vs intent to participate in the game. While against the Rules of Conduct, purchasing gold was given a much wider birth due to the correct perception that they were in-fact participating in the economy in a way that was not malicious. That’s not to say that we didn’t ban anyone for Gold Buying, or didn’t go after Gold Buyers, it simply means that it wasn’t our top priority.
That still is not going to change today, Gold Buyers are not going to be a higher priority than Gold Sellers. Malicious intent will always get the most of our attention as possible.
“So why announce this now?”
Guild Wars 2 has been out for almost 3 years now, and during that time it has become increasingly clear that relationships have been established between some players and the RMT market. That relationship has become a somewhat reliable one and players who purchase from RMT are likely to continue that trend. By increasing our enforcement of this, we intend to break that relationship now and forever. Buying from RMT will no longer be anywhere near as safe as it was before, it’s time for gold buyers to say goodbye to their RMT friends.ermanent ban from the game.
