Dev Post EricMusco Posted May 6, 2015 Dev Post Share Posted May 6, 2015 Hey folks, Over the past few months there have been many issues with Credit sellers and Advertisers. As you have noticed lately, we’re communicating more about what’s going on behind the scenes, so this is another area where we plan to keep you informed. Last week, we took action against an entire selling ring. Over multiple weeks, we investigated and compiled evidence about a large Credit selling ring which spanned across hundreds of accounts and a variety of servers. To help thwart any possible reactions from this group, we simultaneously actioned every account in this Credit selling ring. In total, we banned hundreds of accounts and removed over nine billion credits from those accounts. Thanks to all of you who have been diligently reporting those pesky spammers and other characters acting suspiciously anywhere throughout our game. They are very persistent, but we will continue to aggressively remove credit sellers and advertisers from our game! -eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUTMANIAC Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) Thats a lot of credits lol Edit:this is actually a nice trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHsIyGq1-ug Edited May 7, 2015 by NUTMANIAC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Wulff Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) Thanks for the update. It would give players incentive if you divided the credits in the spam accounts amongst the people that reported them. Edited May 6, 2015 by The_Wulff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joesixxpack Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 That's great! Pls thank us for the time spent reporting by getting rid of the "Your report has been submitted thank you" clicky pop-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerba Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Wow, thanks for being open about this! Would never expected to get such a statement from Bioware. This is really great news and shows that you are just as annoyed by the credit sellers as we are when they are spamming fleet chat. Unfortunately, I don't see credit sellers going away completely but hopefully this will have a lasting impact going forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Kaitou-Kid Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 over nine billion credits Jeeeessssuss. That's a lot of credits. Glad to hear the sellers are getting taken out though, those spam messages get so extremely annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undiess Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 If you really loved us, you'd distribute those credits to everyone in the form of a Bush rebate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azudelphi Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 If you really loved us, you'd distribute those credits to everyone in the form of a Bush rebate. 300 CC for all the non-credit sellers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddballEasyEight Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Great work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinudig Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Thanks for the update EM! We appreciate the effort and applaud the proactivity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code_Airwolf Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Hey folks, Over the past few months there have been many issues with Credit sellers and Advertisers. As you have noticed lately, we’re communicating more about what’s going on behind the scenes, so this is another area where we plan to keep you informed. Last week, we took action against an entire selling ring. Over multiple weeks, we investigated and compiled evidence about a large Credit selling ring which spanned across hundreds of accounts and a variety of servers. To help thwart any possible reactions from this group, we simultaneously actioned every account in this Credit selling ring. In total, we banned hundreds of accounts and removed over nine billion credits from those accounts. Thanks to all of you who have been diligently reporting those pesky spammers and other characters acting suspiciously anywhere throughout our game. They are very persistent, but we will continue to aggressively remove credit sellers and advertisers from our game! -eric " " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUXs Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 9,000,000,000...that's a lot...Nice work Bioware! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XiamaraSimi Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Nice ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadin Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Well done guys. Transparency with open communication can only be a good thing. Glad to see this stuff is being reduced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meteu Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Excellent work- Death to the Gold Spammers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddballEasyEight Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 9,000,000,000...that's a lot...Nice work Bioware! Yup... more than one credit for every living person on earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonfendm Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 should have held a galactic lottery with those credits! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjrasmussen Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Hey folks, Over the past few months there have been many issues with Credit sellers and Advertisers. As you have noticed lately, we’re communicating more about what’s going on behind the scenes, so this is another area where we plan to keep you informed. Last week, we took action against an entire selling ring. Over multiple weeks, we investigated and compiled evidence about a large Credit selling ring which spanned across hundreds of accounts and a variety of servers. To help thwart any possible reactions from this group, we simultaneously actioned every account in this Credit selling ring. In total, we banned hundreds of accounts and removed over nine billion credits from those accounts. Thanks to all of you who have been diligently reporting those pesky spammers and other characters acting suspiciously anywhere throughout our game. They are very persistent, but we will continue to aggressively remove credit sellers and advertisers from our game! -eric To make it more effective, you should give the confiscated money to the players! Undercut the Gold Sellers completely!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightSaberAddiCt Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 If you really loved us, you'd distribute those credits to everyone in the form of a Bush rebate. Why so we can pay it back the next year like the Bush "rebate"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undiess Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Why so we can pay it back the next year like the Bush "rebate"? There are no income taxes in this game, just GTN taxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOHboy Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Put that in your "BW doesn't do anything against spammers" and stuff it 9 billion credits removed going to raise the per credit price a bit, if they manage to recover at all. Great work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rankyn Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Good job! Now how about a "Report and Ignore" button? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSitruc Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 i thought i felt my pockets get picked the other day. where can i go to pick up my lost 9 billion credits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dscount Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 AWESOME WORK!! Good to hear this communicated openly. Thank you... How about we get a Sub TOKEN model (Token/Credits) like WOW and ELIMINATE them completely (Okay 95%)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joesixxpack Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Since this thread is now about players mooching for seized credits or CCs here's an idea: Put a bounty on gold seller spam. A CC per report or something. Or in lieu of that put captured spammers in a pillory on fleet where we can teabag and throw **** at them while waiting for pops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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