Fallen Earth Released
Posted on Friday, October 23rd, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized.Another post-apocalyptic MMO released! Huzzah! Let’s cut to the chase. Good character customization, clean and crisp graphics, six weapon slots, and it has PVP. I haven’t yet got my hands on this but it appears to have a Fallout 3 feel to it. It’s scoring high ratings from users, with there just being one main issue. You need a fairly high end PC to run this game smoothly. Check out the trailer below and others, or Zombie Bill Murray will eat your brains.
Christian
Recent World of Warcraft Scam
Posted on Saturday, October 10th, 2009 and filed under MMORPG Issues, RMT News.Over the past few weeks I have noticed a pattern of scam activities between our customers and delivery in World of Warcraft, I’ve spoken with many of you via MSN, Email, Live Chat, etc pouring through screen shots and delivery logs to try and find out what the real cause of this problem is.
Unlike other companies in the RMT industry we do not shift blame, we do not refuse to take action or fail to investigate the situation. Any and all complaints made to us are handled ASAP and we always respond with an (accurate as possible) response. Here at Mogs we do not have a “Customer is always right” mentality. That died out in the 90′s. We are however all gamers, and we understand more than most where a customer is coming from and we look into every situation like we were looking into a problem with our own accounts.
Any trades that resulted in the customer getting scammed were reset and placed back into queue. We did this at a loss of revenue to us, someone still had to pay for that gold. But the point is, we support you just the same as you support us, and we very much value your continued business with us here at mogs.
IMPORTANT:
Under no circumstances, at any time, should you ever trade back your gold after the initial trade. If someone says they need the gold back so they can screenshot, please come immediately to live support located at the top right hand corner of our website so we can verify that is indeed the fact. Without getting into any detail as to how this scam is done, just remember, never ever ever give the gold back to anyone unless someone in Live Chat or on the Telephone asks you to.
Again, thanks for the support and appreciation, we definately appreciate you.
Jason / MOGS
NCsoft, RMT, Gold Spamming.
Posted on Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 and filed under RMT News.NCsoft, the makers of Aion have recently released a statement concerning advertising that makes use of a black hat tactic known as “gold spamming”. Gold spamming is a practice that most any player of any game can instantly recognize and absolutely can’t stand. The repetitive spam messages boasting incredible prices and claims such as, “instant delivery!”, “we’re so fast it’s probably already in your mail!” and “Buy 1000 gold and get 10% free plus a trip to Hawaii!” we’ve all seen it and most people are sick of it.
Real Money Trade (RMT) is a business based on providing services centered on virtual products such as, currency and items. There are many businesses involved in RMT and the industry as a whole has a bad name. Part of that bad name comes from the endless in game spamming that is used as a pathetic attempt to gain customers. The truly sad part is that for as many people as it annoys there must be a lot of people trying services that stoop to this level of advertising, seems more and more companies are turning to this method, but so far the vast majority of the companies that use gold spamming seem to come and go like a bad taco.
Mogs.com supports Real Money Trade; we are all for providing a service that is extremely helpful for a lot of gamers out there. However, we deplore the actions of these 2nd rate hack shops spamming everyone in game non-stop. It’s annoying, it feels desperate, and it just makes everyone in RMT look bad. We support NCsoft’s tough stance on gold spamming. NCsoft further recommends that if you are experiencing issues with chat spam you can simply right click the user’s name and choose to block the character. This of course won’t kill all of the spam, but a little bit at a time will help. NCsoft promises new tools that will also help rid Aion of these pesky spammers. Mogs.com thinks this is a great idea, take it a step further and beyond RMT’s normal controversy and simply don’t buy from companies that are inundating you with spam. Half of them want to rip you off and key log your account. We suggest taking your time and researching RMT companies, and always simply keep mogs.com in mind, we are a small Cleveland, Ohio based company that’s been working in the industry since the late 1990’s and as MOGS since 2004. We do our best to battle spam and keep it out of the game. We are gamers and we built this company with gamers in mind. Please read NCsoft’s statement here: http://uk.aiononline.com/board/notices/view?articleID=169&page=
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Battle.net Authenticator on Your iPhone!
Posted on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 and filed under Fun Stuff, Game News, MMORPG Issues.Want to be the coolest person at your next WoW party? Then check out the free Battle.net authenticator application for the iPhone and iPod touch. Ditch that pesky keychain authenticator and go high tech with Blizzard’s newest security innovation**. The Battle.net authenticator application for the iPhone/iPod touch goes everywhere you go and doesn’t get misplaced or left at home like the keychain version. You might not need your keys, but you will always have your iPhone with you, right?
World of Warcraft security? There’s an app for that!
**Be sure to read the notes in the application description for a trouble free installation.
Aion VS Spam
Posted on Friday, October 2nd, 2009 and filed under Game News.
Aion released a patch silently this morning thats targeting a few minor bugs currently existing in the game. One of the biggest problems that can be seen in the game currently is the massive amount of in-game spam that is prevalent from the moment you create your character until you sign out.
The new patch will limit any character under level five from sending whispers, similar to general chat which also maintains this restriction.
While this is a step in the right direction, I have to say I’m not super impressed with this solution and am surprised that this kind of problem wasn’t anticipated pre-launch. That might be confusing for some of you, considering I am a “gold seller”, but truth be told that’s just not how we roll around here. We are all gamers, we play the same games you guys do and have to deal with many of the same in-game issues that you do (except for currency, haha!).
So far, as far as I can tell, this has had very little to zero effect. I still find myself getting whispers 2-3 times per minute and even if you use /anon you will still see tons of spam on the LFG and other channels.
Considering it takes about 30 minutes to reach level 5 this really won’t be very much of a limitation. A majority of spamming is done through Trial Accounts, which then raises the question, why not implement a system where Trial accounts can’t whisper anyone they aren’t befriended with? Or a privacy setting in the users account page that enables similar functionality on an opt-in basis.
While it is nice that they are actually recognizing there is a problem with spam in game, I just don’t think they have made a big enough leap yet on really curbing this practice.
