I created my D3 account when the game launched. During play, I remain in General | Trade | Hardcore chats, so I do see the occasional chat spam. What I do see CONSTANTLY is friend request spam, most notably from PVPBank. And I mean dozens and dozens of requests. Really annoying and definitely a problem with D3 at the moment. Hopefully RoS binding will fix this, otherwise Blizzard needs to take action.
Diablo 3 on Battle.net: Chat Spam Problems?
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Steven Hazani
Diabloii.Net Member
When I went over on EU HC the first thing it made me do was make a character since I had none. Because each realm has its own set of options that start off at default values it put me in a chat room right away.
In the time it took for me to make the incredibly complex character building decisions D3 offers I had an invite from a spambot, on a realm I'd never played on.
Why? Because they sit in chat and spam the command that shows all users in this channel and then they spam invites to that list of names. When I left the chat I got zero further spams.
In the time it took for me to make the incredibly complex character building decisions D3 offers I had an invite from a spambot, on a realm I'd never played on.
Why? Because they sit in chat and spam the command that shows all users in this channel and then they spam invites to that list of names. When I left the chat I got zero further spams.
PearlJamaholic
Diabloii.Net Member
I get pretty much the same amount of spammers and am always in General Chat. it does get annoying.
One thing I was thinking is why they don\'t limit the amount of friend requests and chat lines lvl 1 characters can do. Why can\'t they just set it that if your highest lvl character is 1, you can only send out 5 friend requests, period, and can only type one line worth of words in chat. lvl 2 could remove the restriction or expand it. If you don\'t even play up to meeting Leah in the inn you probably dont need 20 friends on the account...
One thing I was thinking is why they don\'t limit the amount of friend requests and chat lines lvl 1 characters can do. Why can\'t they just set it that if your highest lvl character is 1, you can only send out 5 friend requests, period, and can only type one line worth of words in chat. lvl 2 could remove the restriction or expand it. If you don\'t even play up to meeting Leah in the inn you probably dont need 20 friends on the account...
Flux
Administrator
The difficulty is that Bliz is chronically understaffed in Bnet programmers, and they have to support all of Blizzard\'s titles.
Which is why D3 or RoS can get changes quickly in patches, but things like new achievements, AH search engine fixes, social features, chat channel improvements, etc, take forever or don\'t happen at all.
Which is why D3 or RoS can get changes quickly in patches, but things like new achievements, AH search engine fixes, social features, chat channel improvements, etc, take forever or don\'t happen at all.
Lanthanide
Diabloii.Net Member
Yes, so it\'s a cop-out. Blizzard has the pockets to hire more staff and give their players a better online experience. They simply don\'t care.
DaneelOlivaw
Diabloii.Net Member
It is EXTREMELY hard for me to believe that the author can sit there with a straight face and say THEY have never been bothered or "see" as many hundreds of gold spams that I see during a day or week end! At times during the day 3 or 4 of the spams sites tend to have a dueling banjo situation with dozens of consecutive posts in what seems to be a response to another gold spammer!
Disciple of Erebos
Diabloii.Net Member
I play on US server and (before I stopped playing to play PTR) I got about 3 spam friend-requests per day. I\'m not really sure why people make such a big deal about it though; it literally takes ten seconds to delete them. Sure, it\'s annoying that you have to do so, and it would be good if the problem went away, but ten seconds per day getting rid of spam is not the end of the world. I would put fixing this problem very, very low on the list of problems to fix.
In terms of chat spam, I don\'t tend to play with chat enabled, but the few times I play with general chat on, I don\'t usually see spam. Sometimes I do, but even then, it\'s usually not much, and the chat panel is small enough that I can just ignore it. In the worst case scenario, I can take another ten seconds to leave chat and turn it off. Again, I think it\'s a small problem that should be addressed only after the large problems are gone.
In terms of chat spam, I don\'t tend to play with chat enabled, but the few times I play with general chat on, I don\'t usually see spam. Sometimes I do, but even then, it\'s usually not much, and the chat panel is small enough that I can just ignore it. In the worst case scenario, I can take another ten seconds to leave chat and turn it off. Again, I think it\'s a small problem that should be addressed only after the large problems are gone.
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garrett.shirley
Guest
Ironically ... since I posted on these forums the PVPbank onslaught has finally stopped. I am not sure what changed in the last few days ... but I havent gotten one request where I used to get a few a day. Maybe this post brought to blizz\'s attention the huge problem with PVPbank?
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Martimus
Guest
The SPAM exists because there is a market for what they advertise. If the market didn\'t exist, there would simply be no SPAM. Rather than be upset at the ads, be upset at those who decide to utilize its existence, continuing the situation. Never, ever, ever pay real world money for a virtual good other than the price to play it from the company itself.
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martimus
Guest
Perhaps you have utilized their services in the past. Maybe that\'s why you claim to get so many \"per day.\" I can go several months without playing and when I log in I will have two, MAYBE three spam friend requests. Seems like you are either exaggerating or you used them before and are suffering the consequences of it.
DaneelOlivaw
Diabloii.Net Member
If you never \"join general chat\" then I assume you are interested in ONLY a VERY small circle of \"friends\" and do not care about what people outside YOUR small click might be asking or saying... WHY then do you feel it is necessary to comment on the question at hand?
I get anywhere from 0 to as many as 12 friend requests, mostly from pvpbank each day. I do stay in general chat, as I play entirely solo, and find the banter between people to be entertaining. However, it is completely filled most days with spam. Usually I get spammed within 10 seconds of logging in. Then I see further spam at least once every other minute that completely fills the chat box. A crypt run takes me about 90 seconds, and it is unusual to not see 2, and usually 3 spams. One run, I saw 7.
2 days ago, I decided to try blocking and reporting each spam message to see if it helped. It didn\'t. A block/report takes about 10 seconds, including scrolling up to the name, and in one 1 hour play session, I spent approximately 6 minutes reporting. 10% of my play time. That is unacceptable.
For anyone to say they don\'t see this spam, or it isn\'t a problem is mind-boggling to me.
Oh, and I RARELY post on the official forums, and have never bought anything from gold farmers, or even bought gold through Blizzard. I don\'t even use the auction house. I only have the one account and it is protected by an authenticator.
2 days ago, I decided to try blocking and reporting each spam message to see if it helped. It didn\'t. A block/report takes about 10 seconds, including scrolling up to the name, and in one 1 hour play session, I spent approximately 6 minutes reporting. 10% of my play time. That is unacceptable.
For anyone to say they don\'t see this spam, or it isn\'t a problem is mind-boggling to me.
Oh, and I RARELY post on the official forums, and have never bought anything from gold farmers, or even bought gold through Blizzard. I don\'t even use the auction house. I only have the one account and it is protected by an authenticator.