Guild Wars 2

Just a curious question but just yesterday a buddy sent 100g to a guy to turn him commander, i always had the assumption u would get auotbanned for sending over x amt of gold or receiving x amt of gold. havent seen him online today so i was just curious.

Bones.5762:

Just a curious question but just yesterday a buddy sent 100g to a guy to turn him commander, i always had the assumption u would get auotbanned for sending over x amt of gold or receiving x amt of gold. havent seen him online today so i was just curious.

No, there is no auto-banning for sending gold, or any other action in-game.

There is no auto banning, but he might have been banned by mistake for gold buying. However it’s more likely he is just taking a day off.

ok, thanks for the info.

Nope, definitely not.

A few months back (like…in October or something) some friends and I all pooled together our money to have 200g and mailed it back and forth so we could all get the Golden title. Nothing bad happened. If someone gets banned for mailing gold it’s because they’re up to something else as well.

Verene.1480:

Nope, definitely not.

A few months back (like…in October or something) some friends and I all pooled together our money to have 200g and mailed it back and forth so we could all get the Golden title. Nothing bad happened. If someone gets banned for mailing gold it’s because they’re up to something else as well.

I did the same thing with 2 other guidies, we traded 200 gold between us using the guild bank instead of email. I got a “permanent ban” for gold selling that was reversed the next day after I contacted support. And no I wasn’t up to anything else, they banned me by mistake.

so if i mail X amount of gold or t6 mat to my alt account(same IP), will i get ban by A-net? (all gold are farm from cof, no bot and hack)

Charles.4918:

so if i mail X amount of gold or t6 mat to my alt account(same IP), will i get ban by A-net? (all gold are farm from cof, no bot and hack)

It may depend on several thing. One is the amount sent to the other account. There is probably a threshold so small amounts are safer. Also, it may get triggered by a sudden large increase in the bank balance, so if that account doesn’t bank it this may be safer (this is a theory I read on the forums). However, even if you do get a ban, once you prove ownership of both accounts, you should get reinstated. One thing you might do, is party up with the other account and then say in party chat what you are doing so there is documentation if it triggers an audit. They will see this and can check that the accounts are owned by one person.

It seems to be gold they watch. I sent a LOT of mats to a guildie during the first few months and never had trouble with it.

Charles.4918:

so if i mail X amount of gold or t6 mat to my alt account(same IP), will i get ban by A-net? (all gold are farm from cof, no bot and hack)

Nope!
A high value transaction marks your account as suspicious. This means nothing more then that a GM will investigate the transaction and the origin of the gold. If you are innocent you will not get banned.

However. The GM’s are humans and can make mistakes. so it is possible that they check a marked account and suspend in error (a so called false positive). In those situations you can ask and appeal, and if support agrees that you are innocent you get reinstated.

Given the amount of suspensions being given and the amount of appeals visable here on the forum, the amount of false positives is rather low. Also keep in mind that a good portion of the people claiming this are actually guilty and just try it for the sake of trying.

There has been some discussion with the support liason bout the amount of false positives that are tolerable. She acknowledged that the goal should be to have no false positives at all (even though that is practically impossible). She also promised to start an internal discussion bout the procedures in those situations.

I have the feeling that the amount of false positives has been dropping since then. There has been lesser reports of people here claiming they where falsely suspended and reinstated later.

mercury ranique.2170:

Charles.4918:

so if i mail X amount of gold or t6 mat to my alt account(same IP), will i get ban by A-net? (all gold are farm from cof, no bot and hack)

Nope!
A high value transaction marks your account as suspicious. This means nothing more then that a GM will investigate the transaction and the origin of the gold. If you are innocent you will not get banned.

However. The GM’s are humans and can make mistakes. so it is possible that they check a marked account and suspend in error (a so called false positive). In those situations you can ask and appeal, and if support agrees that you are innocent you get reinstated.

Given the amount of suspensions being given and the amount of appeals visable here on the forum, the amount of false positives is rather low. Also keep in mind that a good portion of the people claiming this are actually guilty and just try it for the sake of trying.

There has been some discussion with the support liason bout the amount of false positives that are tolerable. She acknowledged that the goal should be to have no false positives at all (even though that is practically impossible). She also promised to start an internal discussion bout the procedures in those situations.

I have the feeling that the amount of false positives has been dropping since then. There has been lesser reports of people here claiming they where falsely suspended and reinstated later.

Yea, this is wat i always thought to be the case.

@Astral, the first couple of months TP was down/bugged, so i doubt AN cared if ppl was mass mailing mats and stuff.

Bones.5762:

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@Astral, the first couple of months TP was down/bugged, so i doubt AN cared if ppl was mass mailing mats and stuff.[/quote]

True, but in all the cases I have read on the forums about being banned it has never been over sending someone else mats. Also, gold selling is forbidden in the TOS, but sending mats is not mentioned. Since its not mentioned as being something they ban you over, they can hardly do so, imo.

Astral Projections.7320:

Bones.5762:

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@Astral, the first couple of months TP was down/bugged, so i doubt AN cared if ppl was mass mailing mats and stuff.

True, but in all the cases I have read on the forums about being banned it has never been over sending someone else mats. Also, gold selling is forbidden in the TOS, but sending mats is not mentioned. Since its not mentioned as being something they ban you over, they can hardly do so, imo.
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The rmt-websites have been selling items like ecto’s and even precursors and legendary’s. This is as illegal as sending gold. The TOS isn’t limited to only gold but any ingame item thats traded for real world valuables. Besides that. Arenanet doesnt need a reason ever to terminate your account. They can do whenever they please.

So selling 100 ecto’s for real world money will result in the same punishment as selling 178.5 gold (current market value of ecto’s) for real world money. the result will be a life time suspension. Don’t fear the system when you are going within the rules. If they make a mistake they will rectify that.