Can't DE do anything about the third-party services websites?

[BowserNC]

We all know about the shady websites that offer to sell discounted platinum of offering "boosting" for real money. You're just one google search away from finding them. These website are scummy and unethical by exploiting the game's economy overall, breaking EULA, and causing hard at DE's side. By buying platinum from these websites is not only risky, but also disrespectful to the game and the community. You could get banned, scammed, or hacked by them, and you would be supporting their shady practices buy paying real money.

DE should take action or legal action of bringing down these websites and their users, and protect the integrity of Warframe overall. To be honest, whether or not you get that juicy 75% platinum discount you should NEVER look up for the shady website offering prices that are too good to be true. You want someone to carry you in the start chart? Well that's why we have the recruitment chat buddy.

Edited March 3 by BowserNC

[Birdframe_Prime]

They can, and do. I have seen a half dozen go down because of action from either Digital Extremes, or their investors (Tencent).

Problem is they just pop right back up again under a new top-level domain.

[SneakyErvin]

Those will always be there aslong as online gaming with in-game trading exsists. The only way to remove them from a game would be to not allow trading of any kind and make everything SSF (Solo self found). And even if that would be restricted they'd likely still try to sell leveling services and stolen accounts.

They are also the reason why PvP should exsist in all online games, so we can go out and hunt down their "gold" farming bots and ruin their daily income.

[MaxTunnerX]

As long as it requires google to find them, its OK. Its when most of your messages in a game are bot spam when you have a problem (and when most of the players you see are bots).