From this thread its clear that the gold spam irritates the hell out of some of you & when it reaches epic degrees of spam I can agree, in aoc case though it seems fairly minimal.
5hrs today & i ignored 2 spammers, that is hardly the floodgates people make it seem.
Im sure many of you have seen it in countless other mmos, some they have none while some....Neverwinter...ArcheAge...etc have it so bad it actually cripples the game & thats why in comparison the odd one or two here are just easy to deal with. At least the ignore button actually works
Archeage had it so bad that you couldnt use chat at all, they sorted it out, then the spammers figured a way to hide their names so you couldnt even block them, then a lvl 15 restriction so you could only chat from that point...then...then...
Same goes for Neverwinter, so rampant with bots/spammers & despite multiple attempts to curb it, it still continues.
Then there are the games which dont seem to have any? I cant recall any game ive played recently where at least 1 doesnt slip by the filters in place.
Im not saying we should just accept it but rather a good comparison with others can help put it into perspective a little....
ArcheAge example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brPbXFOghO0