Guild Wars 2

I was wondering if anybody knows what happens with buy orders and sell listings of banned accounts. Do they stay active on the trading post or do they get removed by Anet, once they ban an account permanently?

My guess is that they stay active, at least for a grace period in case the ban gets revoked.

I got a ban during that scare around the time SAB got released and was one of the large portion that got reinstated… Buy orders and sell orders were still there waiting for me… Hope that helps.

I doubt items are removed from permanent bans, considering that there are accounts that get permanently banned and then revoked. Many innocent players have got the permanent ban message for innocently sending gold or farming certain controversial spots, but they often get revoked after a review.

I guess the best people to ask are the people that got permanently banned and then had it revoked after a few weeks.

Maybe I’ll be one of those. I accidently sent one of my alts 100G instead of 10G last night. When I come home, I hope I’m not banned ;(

Vol.7601:

I doubt items are removed from permanent bans, considering that there are accounts that get permanently banned and then revoked. Many innocent players have got the permanent ban message for innocently sending gold or farming certain controversial spots, but they often get revoked after a review.

I guess the best people to ask are the people that got permanently banned and then had it revoked after a few weeks.

Maybe I’ll be one of those. I accidently sent one of my alts 100G instead of 10G last night. When I come home, I hope I’m not banned ;(

Thats why i thought there might be a grace period. And i would think that buy listings and sell orders can easily be put back in as long as they keep a log.

I thought a dev said they never remove listings from the TP, even if the account is perma-banned.
one reason could be of difficulty – like, it isn’t easy to query the TP server for a particular account’s listings and offers (at least for many thousands of accounts at a time)
another could be because they don’t need to, so why bother. also the chance that the perma ban is reversed
regarding all those 1c offers… I have no idea why they haven’t removed those :P probably because of the first reason I suggested.
I will point out that they have removed one of my listings before, and returned the item to me. The mad king slippers – they changed it from TPable to account-bound, so they removed all of them from the TP. I believe it was just in my pickup tab, and I think they mailed me a refund for the listing fee, but I can’t be sure as it was almost 1.5 years ago.

Mystic.5934:

regarding all those 1c offers… I have no idea why they haven’t removed those :P probably because of the first reason I suggested.

“one reason could be of difficulty – like, it isn’t easy to query the TP server for a particular account’s listings and offers (at least for many thousands of accounts at a time)
another could be because they don’t need to, so why bother”

These two reasons. The current TP setup means that buy orders below vendor price are impossible to create/sell to (excepting the occasional bug) so there is no need to remove existing ones. And also the amount of work that would go into removing them just to satisfy the OCD crowd who “don’t like” seeing them is disproportionate to the nearly nonexistent benefits of doing so.

Magnus Steelgrave.6580:

I got a ban during that scare around the time SAB got released and was one of the large portion that got reinstated… Buy orders and sell orders were still there waiting for me… Hope that helps.

Thanks.

I wonder though, how big the impact would be, if they removed all the buy orders and sell listings from botters/exploiters/gold sellers, that got banned.

Wanze.8410:

Magnus Steelgrave.6580:

I got a ban during that scare around the time SAB got released and was one of the large portion that got reinstated… Buy orders and sell orders were still there waiting for me… Hope that helps.

Thanks.

I wonder though, how big the impact would be, if they removed all the buy orders and sell listings from botters/exploiters/gold sellers, that got banned.

The way I’ve always seen it is that buying those guys items is a gold sink so that’s good. But they could have just as many buy orders too… In any case I’m sure their listings either don’t stay up long or they get buried so deep most won’t be seen again.