Damn Gold Spammers.

So my new rant is about gold spammers. For those of you who have never played an MMORPG or the more recent issue, Diablo 3... Gold spammers are basically companies that offer to sell you in-Game gold for $xx.xx. Now some of you are going to go, "Why the hell would you want pay money to get virtual money?" Well, for gamers, money == better gear. Better gear means 'more fun'. Which, I think, is a bad idea. These companies also are not necessarily... Honest. Some of them will want account information, which means, access to your game account, which can lead to you losing your in game work because some of that gold is generated by... Hacking accounts and selling off stuff the character as and transfering the virtual money to another account. In the past, it has been discouraged, but doesn't stop the companies from getting a bunch of the free accounts, creating characters and then spamming various channels to sell their illgotten gains. Personally, I've gotten annoyed with it in Diablo 3, mostly cause I am trying to just have fun in the game and then watching several lines of "Buy gold from ...... Safe, honest..." And what makes it worse, is that Diablo 3 does have a 'real currency exchange' auction house, which means, people can, literally make money off of playing the game and selling virtual stuff to other players. While Blizzard gets a small percentage of the sale, the thing I just don't like is the simple fact that it just encourages these gold spammers to constantly make the damn spamming bots to the point that playing for an hour, I send at least 15 minutes blocking the spam bots and reporting them cause I want a chat channel that isn't full of crap. While some of the people in the channel might not be mature... To be honest, it is EASIER to deal with immature idiots than watching like 5 to 10 lines of selling crap on a game I already paid a right to play in. Even in-game 'ads' like those used in Planetside, I can tune out, but when I do want to read a chat section, and all I see is ad crap I can't tune out without block and reporting it several times, it becomes a real nuisance.