Banning goldspammers

[Caohmin]

So, as I was playing last night a message would pop up on my screen that didn't really make a whole lot of sense to me. It happened several times and each time I read the message and said 'Huh?' then clicked ok and carried on.

Explained by Mark Jacobs on his blog:

http://onlinegamesareanichemarket.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/a-banning-we-will-go-a-banning-we-will-go-heave-ho-off-the-servers-yo-a-banning-we-will-go/

It turns out that every one of those messages was some gold spammer getting his account banned. Warhammer has a crack team whose sole purpose is find and ban these guys immediately. They're not waiting to find a bunch and then ban them all at once. They ban them as soon as they find them.

Nice.

[Rosslyn]

once i figured out what those were, I was having a little celebration at the keyboard each time it happened.  I'm way more likely to report a gold spammer now that I know it may actually result in some action.

[Lifesbane]

yea, ive reported 6 or 7 of them over the last few days. go go banhammer.

[Axecleaver]

Likewise, it's a good customer relationship tool. I haven't actually seen any of the people I report get banned, but I'm looking forward to it.