To be fair, that is what you’re suggesting as a solution to the link spam:
This entirely ignores the reason why this is a problem in the first place. I don’t have the figures on this, but based on my knowledge of how people react to spam and gold selling in mmos, it’s a pretty safe bet most people’s reaction is going to be negative.
If CCP wants the spam to continue, they should have a dedicated channel for it. Of course that will also require all the chat and mail filters discussed above.
Or make use of the hypernet ui, and develop a spot for in game advertisement. They could even connect it to the billboards, so when you interact with the billboard, it would take you to the relevant ad space.
Er…no…its a solution to link spam in NPC corp. And NPC corp is a complete waste of time useless corp anyway. It’s only real function is as something to fall back on when changing corp.
Methinks thou dost protest too much. Link spam is easily fixed by blocking the spammer. End of spam. Everyone can block up to 300 people, and I’ve yet to use up all those spaces despite blocking every spammer at Jita.
New players will uninstall the game over this issue. That is the core of the issue.
Untrue. A new player’s first social interaction in game will be with these people. Well, at least it would have been, if corp chat wasn’t filled with spam.
And a lack of social interaction, leads to people not playing the game. This is something CCP has indicated over and over again.
If people are going to be this flippant about chat’s usefulness in EVE, it would be better if there wasn’t any chat channels. But that’s not the best way forward either, just better than the current situation.
Why do you even care if you think these chat channels are worthless? Perhaps you’re one of the people who are abusing the situation?
Oh gawd…yet another ‘think of the poor noobs’ bleat for which there is zero actual evidence.
Any player who cannot learn to right click and ‘block’ is probably better off leaving the game as the rest of the game will be way too difficult for them.
More to the point…why do you even care about an issue that has such a simple solution ? You rattle on as if people had to endure endless spam. They don’t. Two clicks and the spammer is gone.
It’s not just 2 clicks. It’s 2 clicks times infinity, because it doesn’t stop. And as you pointed out before, we only get to block so many people. Eventually we will reach the cap.
Personally, I think it’s dumb to need to use up those slots for spammers that can just create a new account after a while and continue the nonsense.
Because I want the game to grow rather than stagnate.
Only if you ignore what’s been presented in this thread.
I have been. And every time I log in on a character in a rookie corp, there are more.
And as I said, this is irrelevant. I can block them… that’s not the issue… the issue is new players will see the spam, and then uninstall the game.
You say that only because you haven’t been paying attention. I posted a series of pictures earlier in the thread (not the op) where a single spam post killed the conversation that had been going on for several minutes. And all that came after that was more spam.
CCP has spoken a lot about the friendship machine.
Lack of social interaction hurts player retention. So in other words, the spam is killing the game. Not entirely, but it certainly has a negative impact.
To be frank I think people making way too much ‘think of the poor noobs’ fuss likely has the greater negative impact. I think there’s probably more people put off the game by you poisoning the well than there are noobs who can’t cope with a simple right click and ‘block’ exercise.
My angle is that you’ve rejected every single suggestion anyone has put forward. It is thus clear that all you want to do is whine. And I think the endless succession of whiners is a bigger threat to the game than a few lines of spam.
The real solution is to develop the in-game chat (And UI) like a protocol so players can develop and use addons and apps that interfaces with it and has various features like blocking 1mil sp spammers
In fact, I accepted the very first suggestion brought up in the thread. And there were a few other good ideas brought up as well.
I also modified the op to reflect all the suggestions brought up in the thread so far (even the ones I think are rubbish.)
The only thing I’ve rejected, is the idea that recruit spamming isn’t a problem. Also, ideas that kill social interaction as part of the solution, isn’t a solution.
