mpddispatch Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Cmon Bioware, please do something, this is getting way out of control. I cant play my game without getting a wall of text wanting me to buy some in game credits every dang 30 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoofa Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Yer - this was a new one for me, until today.I knew all about the spamming in "General". All very straight forward, click "Report SPAM", click ignore.But I received2 of these whilst doing a FP and then 4 in the space of 45 minutes whilst on Ilum.Harsh I know but I'd like a "auto ignore whispers from people not on my friends list" please - this way I can temporarily turn it off if maybe I'm group hunting etc. But for the main it would be firmly switched on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorldSmasher Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 OK, these credit spamming whispers are out of control Damn! That reminded me of Lord Kallig (Sith Inquisitor) having trouble with the Force Ghosts whispering in his head, and taunting him. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafaman Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 (edited) yup. there is another thread on this, but I'm glad there is more than one thread to emphasize the point. They have changed their tactics and are now whispering... I ignore and report, but they are hitting us hard on Harbinger. something needs to be done... publicly in gen chat is one thing, but a whisper is bordering on harassment... Edited May 19, 2015 by Rafaman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legolose Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 yup. there is another thread on this, but I'm glad there is more than one thread to emphasize the point. They have changed their tactics and are now whispering... I ignore and report, but they are hitting us hard on Harbinger. something needs to be done... publicly in gen chat is one thing, but a whisper is bordering on harassment... No joke the more threads on this crap the better I mean it was so bad today I had to cut my whisper chat off as well as the normal general chat off... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bachannal Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Just got nailed with an avalanche of this on Rishi. Not cool Bioware. C'mon...sort this **** out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heat-Wave Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 yup. there is another thread on this, but I'm glad there is more than one thread to emphasize the point. They have changed their tactics and are now whispering... I ignore and report, but they are hitting us hard on Harbinger. something needs to be done... publicly in gen chat is one thing, but a whisper is bordering on harassment... That isn't "bordering on", it IS harassment... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonalius Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Its a different company it seems, based on the website they're touting. I wonder if they took EA's announcement of cracking down as a challenge... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorldSmasher Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Its a different company it seems, based on the website they're touting. I wonder if they took EA's announcement of cracking down as a challenge... Or maybe the company got legal papers, "went out of business", and "a new company" took it's place... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonalius Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Or maybe the company got legal papers, "went out of business", and "a new company" took it's place... Unlikely. Different tactics, different website, different price, different style of wording... Strong indications that its different people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FerkWork Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 I got spammed while in a Ranked Match lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoDrake Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 i have yet to log in today but now i kinda don't want to... i wonder if this will lead to whispers being banned on f2p accounts if it persists? that would be ridiculous but Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icykill_ Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Getting whisper spammed while in PVP wzs... Tried to respond to them to tell them to p*issoff... But it says player not found??... What are they doing??... Logging in, spamming and logging off or do they put "you" on an ignore list once they've spammed??Even when I've tried to report spam at the end of the match I am getting errors with the "report spam" functionIf only Bio would make the "report spam" function instant with no pop up, then I could do it on the fly while I'm playing... Other wise I have to wait till the end of the matchLastly, we need an ignore list that is account wide... Ignoring them, then jumping to another toon, only to get spammed again, is extremely annoying... Also a "clear" ignore list function for names that no longer exist would be helpful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWidowmaker Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 yeah it sucks they they dont have the courtesy of staying logged on long enough for my response to let them know that i hope that they and their families and anyone they know die slow and horrible deaths and that i hope that they are shot in the face with large caliber weapons. repeatedly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptRogue Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Its a different company it seems, based on the website they're touting. I wonder if they took EA's announcement of cracking down as a challenge... Just my opinion, but I think they all lead to the same site. The spammers have been spamming two sites by the same toon. I'm figuring it's just an address the redirects you to the company, no matter what link you've clicked, e.g. MMOCAT, Gamereasy, Creditsnow, or whatever... I want to know how they're doing server wide whispers?!?!?! That has to be some kind of admin hack, I'd think! I was on Voss got whispered, hubby got whispered same time standing on fleet, same stuff. Our in game names are no where near each other. Plus earlier on Voss I had been whispered commented in Planet, and apparently others had been whispered too, because they were in agreement w me & that's when they told me it was a mass whisper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarfux Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Got 5 in the last 3 hours playing tonight. Very annoying and between the gold spam on the fleet and the referral link spammers and now the whispering? I thought my eyes were going to explode! :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psychopyro Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 I want to know how they're doing server wide whispers?!?!?! Open the /who panel. Put a zone in the filter (Ilum, Rishi, etc) and hit search again. It will bring up all the people in that zone and you can just /tell <name on list>... Never tried but you may just only have to right click the name in the list and select whisper... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptRogue Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Open the /who panel. Put a zone in the filter (Ilum, Rishi, etc) and hit search again. It will bring up all the people in that zone and you can just /tell <name on list>... Never tried but you may just only have to right click the name in the list and select whisper... Yes you can right click the name, but that doesn't answer the fact that I was on Voss & hubby was on fleet & same spammer at the same time hit us both up. Next time I will ask around see how many people actually got it on different areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUTMANIAC Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Happened while I was on my ship lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbus Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 I would love to hear from someone at Bioware as to their plans on fixing this issue, it has been getting way out of hand in the last several days, before it was easy i just stayed away from fleet now they are hitting us all over, I can't even hide on the crapper in my ship without these a**holes sending me private messages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henge_Wolf Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Yeah a bunch of us on fleet (ebon hawk) all got whispers at the same time, not sure if it was from one or an army of bots, as all their names are gibberish. Now let's be honest, there will always be gold/credit sellers as long as there's a market (and clearly these people put a lot of time and effort into this, so there must be a demand), but the spam needs to stop. It was bad in WoW a couple years back (anyone remember when they were multiboxing and arranging dead bodies of level 1s to spell out their website?) meaning they got real creative, but now you just don't see it. I'm not sure what they did, but EA/BW should probably get on something similar. At least with the fleet spam you can ignore them pretty easily, but whispers, that's downright invasive and can affect game play. I know they don't want to make things hard for F2P people, but maybe something as simple as verifying you're a human with a real email address before you can create a free account would be a step in the right direction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeets Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 (edited) Yeah a bunch of us on fleet (ebon hawk) all got whispers at the same time, not sure if it was from one or an army of bots, as all their names are gibberish. Now let's be honest, there will always be gold/credit sellers as long as there's a market (and clearly these people put a lot of time and effort into this, so there must be a demand), but the spam needs to stop. It was bad in WoW a couple years back (anyone remember when they were multiboxing and arranging dead bodies of level 1s to spell out their website?) meaning they got real creative, but now you just don't see it. I'm not sure what they did, but EA/BW should probably get on something similar. At least with the fleet spam you can ignore them pretty easily, but whispers, that's downright invasive and can affect game play. I know they don't want to make things hard for F2P people, but maybe something as simple as verifying you're a human with a real email address before you can create a free account would be a step in the right direction? The only reason spam is lessened on WoW is because: 1 - Free accounts can't whisper people or talk in trade. 2 - There are still a fudge ton of servers even after the merges, so most of the spam is concentrated on higher population servers. 3 - Because of number 1, almost all spam is orchestrated by stolen accounts (they can't make money if they have to constantly buy accounts and subscribe)... These stolen accounts are almost always detected and banned almost immediately just with automated scans. SWTOR though... They can spam all they want on legit accounts without paying a dime. And there are like five employees left on this game for handling tickets and making costumes for people to buy... Banning spam isn't even on their radar. The only way they would care is if they could put it in a pack and sell it on the cartel market. Edited May 20, 2015 by Squeets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafaman Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Well, other games combat this by requiring a bunch of levels before opening whisper for f2p. Seems like maybe this is the way to go here. You still have /say which is a small area chat. Sadly... that will alienate some players but, it may come down to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halinalle Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Its a different company it seems, based on the website they're touting. I wonder if they took EA's announcement of cracking down as a challenge... Even though .com domain name is quite expensive they can easily have multiple domain names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juular_Yith Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Couldn't this be resolved by implementing something like Warframe's Kickbot? An automated background screening that blocks/kicks based off of what characters are typed in what order. Digital Extremes uses it to eliminate trade chat in non-trade channels and for other spam. I just feel like there's solutions that are being overlooked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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