Improvement to Client Which Will Impede Those Pesky Level 1 Scam Invites

Deep Terror Nami·1/28/2015, 5:50:39 AM·3 votes·412 views

Many of you know what "scam invites" I'm talking about, but if you don't, I will explain;

There are accounts created specifically to send random people friend requests. They are generally fresh level 1's, and as soon as you accept their request they open the chat window with you, and delete you from their friends list. This causes them to not appear on your list, but they can sit there and spam "Go here, get free RP, skins, etc." at you and there's nothing you can do about it.

Now that we're on the same page, I have 2 solutions.

  1. Show account details of the person sending you a friend request, such as account level, rank, and the last place you've seen them (such as your previous solo q match, or never seen). Also include a 3rd option (other than Accept/Decline), which would be to Report them. After a few reports by this among several people, the account is flagged and can't send more requests and is investigated.

The account details will give players a quick indication on whether it is someone they know or not, so they can make an educated guess on whether it's a good idea to accept the request. Currently you should either never accept if you don't recognize, or you search their account online so you can deny if it looks like it might be a scam bot.

  1. If you unfriend someone, all chat windows between the two are automatically closed.

That is a pretty simple fix for what they do, but only solves that problem and doesn't provide additional niceties like #1 does.

I lied. I thought of a third and fourth one, but isn't so much a solution as it is just a nice improvement. 3) When sending a friend request, you can add a short message, such as; "You were awesome last match, add me?"

  1. Your "Recently Played" list isn't cleared when you log out. Sometimes you log out right after a match and somebody sends you a request, but when you get it later, you would have to rummage through your Match History online if you didn't remember the name (most likely you just decline the request).

Thank you for reading, I apologize for the long-windedness trying to explain my idea. Please feel free to improve, agree with, or shoot them down.

1 Comments

ChrisB51/28/2015, 12:10:55 PM2 votes

Okay, so, I had this same problem. This started for me last week... or the week prior I can't remember. ANYWAYS, I thought to myself... "why isn't there an option to refuse invites below a certain level?" Let's face it, I can add my friends if they're below level 25. If they're brand new and I'm teaching them the ropes, they probably don't know how to add people yet anyways! Obviously this should be optional and off by default.

I do like this short message idea, and chat removal upon friend removal! I've been wanting the latter for a while now. Reports would be nice too... AND WHY ISN'T THERE BAN FROM INVITE!? Why only accept/decline? I get people with weird names who are mad and try to '1v1 me bro' after game trolling invites.