Guild Wars 2

I understand Anet has taken some stern decisions in banning and i agree with their stance. So here is what i recommened, everyone deserves a second chance.

Something as serious as wreckless driving, speeding on the road results in a hefty speeding ticket and affects insurance costs – They commit a mistake, they pay a fine, they learn not to repeat the offence.

By saying that, here is my recommendation:
Continue the current method of infraction points. – If a players exploits etc and hurts the economy then they should be permaed.

Addtion to the current process, which will go unchanged, allow the players to do the following:
Re-buy their account at full price. – Once a player gets permaed, the account will be unaccessable for 1 month – after a month, player will get chance to pay full price and rebuy rights to the account. At which point they will have to delete any gold/items they acquired due to the exploit.

How will this help Anet?
More revenue! They retain players and the community grows further.

How will this help the players?
Thats self explanatory.

The only bans which they should absolutely not lift are gold sellers since their aim is to control the economy. Rest should get a 2nd chance.

Expecting the player to delete things is pointless.
Someone exploiting should have their characters deleted (after all if they exploit on one character they did it on them all), a total reset of the account back to zero.

Runiir.6425:

Expecting the player to delete things is pointless.
Someone exploiting should have their characters deleted (after all if they exploit on one character they did it on them all), a total reset of the account back to zero.

instead of having to re buy it i guess or both or a option maybe

maybe have it cost 5-10$ (reasonable?) and you get a character of your choice restored (in case you like your main). not all of them, just one. that way players “buying” back in would have one character to play with. all that extra gear and soulbound stuff the character cannot use has to be an eyesore upon returning.

or, fine players with in game gold and silver, and if they don’t have enough, they have to pay 5-10$ for access. or just take the items away. if the exploit happens because of some crafting material, just remove said materials from account and fine them a few silver.

i think the idea behind “playing safe” rings well with highly geared or “perceived wealthy” players – the more you have, the more you probably lose should you get banned, thus kind of making players play legitimately, out of some kind of fear of losing everything overnight.

If you exploit, you lose everything. No stages, no levels of bad. A simple large sweeping punishment.
Going easy on those bendign the rules never works out, you go for the harsh punishment and direct cancelation. If they still bend the rules they do so knowing they will get completely destroyed for doing so.
I would go the next step and computer ID ban, would truly make people stop.

This was the second chance , there was the karma weapon scandal :P

Doing a MAC address or IP address ban isn’t fool-proof.

MAC Address Ban = Circumvented by a new NIC card (cheap) or new Motherboard (expensive).

IP Address Ban = Punishing everyone at an IP that may not have been part of the exploit. There are those that use IP Spoofing to keep from getting caught and innocents could get banned. IP Address ban can also be circumvented by getting a new IP Address.

Using the PID of the OS would violate a few EULAs.

The banned players get as many chances as they are willing to make new e-mail addresses and spend more money for the game.