Mark Jacobs of Mythic tells gold sellers where to go. :)

[monnie101]

I meant to post this when it came out a few days ago as I thought some of you UO players would be interested in reading it since Mythic is with EA. By the way, I guess they dropped the EA-Mythic thing? In UO they still call the team EA-Mythic though, am I right? In Warhammer they just call it Mythic again.

Anyway, I must say I was happy to see that Mark Jacobs (CEO of Mythic) hates gold sellers and ingame gold ad spammers as much as I do. For you all that haven't been following or playing Warhammer... It has been VERY successful and EA released a couple articles on the records. They have a half million subs after less then 2 weeks, which makes it the fastest growing mmog ever! This, is obviously much attributed to the success of WoW who brought in newbies to the genre. Warhammer is a perfect game for Ex-WoW players.

Mark Jacobs seems to be a great guy. He posts a lot and has helped out fans a lot on the VN boards and other boards. Paul Barnett, the Creative Director is hilarious and has fans of his funny videos such as the tours of Mythic Offices videos. The only thing so far that they did bad was changing the headstart code end dates due to thousands of codes having been stolen by store employees who sold them on Ebay.

The game is a lot of fun so far. For a mmog launch it is doing awesome. They cloned our characters for us for free to move to a server without cues but I like a packed full server so I just keep waiting out the cue.

I think some of you UO PvP people who are open minded to try other games might like it. They even have a RvR server if you want to be always unflagged. The RvR is fun. Hundreds of people fighting claiming keeps. You can fire cannons and other siege weapons. You can also join fun scenarios which are instanced games that put you into teams. And you can also play public quests which are areas you just run into and play with other people around you. You don't even have to join a party. The quests are hilarious. If you watch the NPCs around you, they can often be overheard talking about something funny or going somewhere to do something funny such as take a naked dwarf prisoner to the wolves.

You get the funniest titles. I had a full pack so I left loot on a lot of corpses and got, "The Litter Bug" some guy was naked with the title "The Exhibitionist"

It's a lot of fun. I have a feeling though that some angry bitter players might hate on it. I didn't say it was Gods gift, just saying it's fun. EQ2 is still my favorite game. Over 3 years subbed. The game I permanently left UO for. I still revisit UO every year or 2. I still tell peopel of all the kool deep fun stuff UI has like the stables and how you can feed and train your pets which has people owning them for years and having love for them. I love my UO pets and miss them.

A banning we will go, a banning we will go. Heave ho off the servers yo, a banning we will go!
Posted on September 21, 2008 by Mark Jacobs

I hate gold sellers/spammers. No, that’s not strong enough, let me try again. I HATE GOLD SELLERS WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING. Ah, that’s better. Now, why do I hate them you may ask? I hate them for a number of reasons, most of which have been detailed in various interviews I’ve done over the years. And now that they have taken their obnoxiousness to new levels with gold service spamming, I HATE GOLD SPAMMERS EVEN MORE NOW THAN EVER BEFORE. For years, lowlifes like IGE have told us, in defense of their behavior, that they a) are just providing a service; b) don’t interfere with players enjoyment of the game. Well, I can’t argue with (a), they are providing a service, just like maggots I suppose but I’ve always argued that (b) is totally and complete BS. Now, those old arguments aside, I can’t see how this new generation of pond scum (new and improved, with 25% more scummy action!) can argue that their constant spamming of chat channels doesn’t interfere with players enjoyment of the game (I’m waiting for the whole “Oh, you can always just turn off chat” argument). I hated seeing their messages when I played WoW or any other MMO and I’ve been waiting for the day that WAR launched so I could have the absolute pleasure of instituting policies to make their lives more difficult so we could drive them out of WAR.

Since WAR launched we have been banning these jerks like crazy. As of Saturday Night, we had banned about 400 of them. My CSRs have a zero tolerance policy. We don’t wait and let them stay in the game and ban them en-masse, my guys ban their useless, time-consuming butts right away. We have a strike team whose sole job it is to get these guys off our servers as quickly as possible. This weekend, we unveiled a new wrinkle in the fight against them, the public ban message. Players on our Phoenix Throne server have been treated to special messages when a gold seller/spammer is banned. I’ve given them a wide leash to come up with creative messages to tell the entire community who has been banned and we keep it within the Warhammer universe. Messages like “Tchar’zanek has ordered the slaughter of [Spammer] and all others of his kind who weaken the Raven Host by providing wealth and power to the unworthy” have been seen all weekend. We will continue this policy and expand it to the other servers. We are in for a real fight against these bottom feeders and it will be a long and costly battle but it’s one we are going to take to them and this is only the first step. After all, this is WAR…

BTW, for those who might be tempted to think that we are doing this so we could offer our own service or because we do make money off their boxes (traditionally, gold sellers will quickly shift to buddy disks and free trials though to lower their costs) let me tell you this. I’ve been offered “a piece of the action” both personally and corporately in the past if I will either turn a blind eye or help them in their actions. This would have netted me and/or Mythic a very, very tidy sum, far more than we would see from box sales. My answer was and always will remain the same:

Go to hell.

Source:
http://onlinegamesareanichemarket.w...e-ho-off-the-servers-yo-a-banning-we-will-go/

P/S Here is my Greenskin Gobbie I am sculpting. This pic is just after sculpting over the wire frame. I just started it in this pic so I know it doesn't look like my char yet but it will when I'm done! I was thinking of sending it to Mark or Paul but it's so much work that I might keep it and make them another.