Blizzard seems to have finally taken notice of the growing support queue of gold spam complaints.
Their first act to solve the gold spam issue was to implement an automated response to fend off the barrage of complaints by customers that tied up GM time. You’ll even find a new option in the reasons why you cancelled box for “Gold Spam” when you discontinue your monthly subscription. If only their efforts were better directed at the spammers themselves you say!
Well, Eyonix did make an announcement in the Worldofwarcraft.com forums stating the following:
As many of you know, the latest content patch, along with many great new content additions, contains technical counter-measures designed to combat in-game gold spamming. Our efforts to reduce in-game abuse and create a fun, safe environment for everyone are never-ending.
With that said, we felt that it was important to share with the community just how serious we are in our efforts to combat this type of abuse. Blizzard has filed a federal lawsuit against the operators of Peons4hire, a popular gold-selling organization which many of you have no doubt seen advertised. As part of the lawsuit, the operators of Peons4hire have been asked to immediately cease all in-game spamming efforts by all entities and websites under their control.
If this organization refuses to act accordingly, further legal action will be taken. We’ll be sure to keep you posted on the progress of this topic.
There’s also been some word of minor changes to the /tell system to delay potential “spam” messages. Really can it be that hard to solve? We’ve had gold spammers doing global yells into 40man instances for over a year already…
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