RMT advertising in chat

I don't understand why chat messages advertising RMT sites are not automatically deleted and the account automatically banned.

I report every account advertising them and then Ignore the account so I'm not reporting the same accounts over and over again, but I shouldn't have to do that. It would be beyond simple to have it automatically handled.

RMT will always exist in a player-to-player trade economy.
The only difference between Diablo 2 days and nowadays is that PC games and games in general have sky rocketed to the forefront of the gaming community thus bringing in much much more players making this an even easier area to target.

Controlling it? I've never ever seen a company manage to control RMT before it's just to much work and nearly impossible. Especially, with a game that will be free to play. They get banned? They'll just do it and have a character endgame and farming again before you can blink.

GGG does a good job of banning as many RMTers as possible though.
I'll give them that.
There is a lot of people who get banned for it then cry on the forums why why i didnt do anything... except that's the only reason GGG bans people is RMTing and any forum of third party programs that run in the game.

EDIT: I report and ignore the RMTers too but lately it's gotten even worse and I get whispered now which is insane how'd they get my name I didn't speak in global or trade chat.. makes me worry about data.

I get that, but the blatantly obvious ones with known RMT website addresses in them would be simple to automatically block and ban.

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codedependent#1277 wrote:

I get that, but the blatantly obvious ones with known RMT website addresses in them would be simple to automatically block and ban.

It's like a spam phone call.. no matter how many times you ban the # another # is gonna call you.. it's same shit here xD

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codedependent#1277 wrote:

I don't understand why chat messages advertising RMT sites are not automatically deleted and the account automatically banned.

I report every account advertising them and then Ignore the account so I'm not reporting the same accounts over and over again, but I shouldn't have to do that. It would be beyond simple to have it automatically handled.

Agreed. It's safe to say the vast majority of players with Global or Whispers open, will see and report these messages then put them on ignore.

Should be reasonable to assume they can track those consistent similar messages and simply filter them by that.

But unlike a spam call, all GGG needs to do is have a list of known RMT website addresses and any message that includes one gets deleted instead of posted to chat, and the account gets auto-banned.

There are two main reasons for the game company not to ban RMT accounts:

1. (Primary) The overall RMT bot accounts add to the overall player numbers, which corporate likes to see. This is why "shadow banning" occurs on social media platforms.

2. Developer time implementing it.


Now, with those out of the way, here is what I'd do in these modern times, rather than just having a filter to auto-mute and auto-ban:

1. Create a corpus with various terms and messages that are used.

2. Once the corpus is created, there are two interesting ways to use it:

2a. The first is the easiest: Use sentiment analysis and before the message is sent to be distributed, judge it by the sentiment, if the score is 0.75, then do not distribute the message. If the same message is detected, then auto-ban.

2b. The second method is to train an AI model using LSTM, then use it in conjunction with the sentiment analysis, Q-Learning (I'd go for TD3) and A* Pathfinding. That way it not only looks for terms used "now", it also looks for patterns and can learn from the RMT sellers themselves.

3. Finally, I would add into the Terms of Service that we all click accept and not read is to add in a clause stating that if your account is flagged for RMT practices, then your credit card is billed $250 USD for a purchaser, $25,000 USD for a seller for each time it was done.

Just implementing number 3 would put the entire RMT economy out of business, especially after the first 2-3 times it was implemented.

GGG need to ban these spamers.

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QticaX#4168 wrote:

RMT will always exist in a player-to-player trade economy.
The only difference between Diablo 2 days and nowadays is that PC games and games in general have sky rocketed to the forefront of the gaming community thus bringing in much much more players making this an even easier area to target.

Controlling it? I've never ever seen a company manage to control RMT before it's just to much work and nearly impossible. Especially, with a game that will be free to play. They get banned? They'll just do it and have a character endgame and farming again before you can blink.

GGG does a good job of banning as many RMTers as possible though.
I'll give them that.
There is a lot of people who get banned for it then cry on the forums why why i didnt do anything... except that's the only reason GGG bans people is RMTing and any forum of third party programs that run in the game.

EDIT: I report and ignore the RMTers too but lately it's gotten even worse and I get whispered now which is insane how'd they get my name I didn't speak in global or trade chat.. makes me worry about data.

GGG does a fucking terrible job of banning RMTers, I don't know what you are thinking. The head of TFT isn't even banned for crying out loud, and one of the richest people on earth blatantly advertising engaging in the practice and isn't banned.