Guild Wars 2

Not sure if I posted this in right place, but I gave a friend of mine 200g to help him make twilight.
Will anet think I’m selling gold and ban me by mistake?

Jagerbomber.1953:

Not sure if I posted this in right place, but I gave a friend of mine 200g to help him make twilight.
Will anet think I’m selling gold and ban me by mistake?

Why would you even think that?

Don’t be paranoid. A.net aren’t nearly as ban-happy as some people claim them to be.

most of the time when someone gets banned they have someone they don’t know about logging in on their account. If you just send 200 g in the mail I don’t think they would do anything.

I had made it a habit in other mmos to send amounts of coin (usually 50s or 1g in GW2) to random new players that I encounter that are nice. After seeing all of the people mentioning on these boards about being suspended just for sending money to people, I’ve since stopped being a generous soul…which is one aspect of the game that I enjoy, helping out other players if I am able to. I actually fear that either I or the person I send the gold to could be suspended…and I will not take that chance, more so for their sake as they did not ask for the coin.
The excessive amount of suspensions I’ve read of and heard of actually seems to encourage a more selfish attitude to me, instead of selfless.
You may say that my sending many large or small amounts of coin to random people will not get me suspended, but I won’t believe it. I’ve seen too many who have, or claim to have been for me to take you at your word on this. And that makes me sad. It’s a real shame, as making those random gifts is what I enjoy and “how I choose to play”…or used to play, as it seems that it isn’t permissible behavior in GW2. :\

i would say it would be extremely rare not to trigger an account suspension.

4 of my guild members got suspended for sending large amounts of gold over in game mail. though they sent in support tickets and got their accounts un-suspended.

1st case:
N sent D 200gold and D sent the 200gold back to N, so D could get the 200 gold achievement.

2nd case:
S’s friend sent S some 35 gold along with some tier 6 materials to help S get his legendary short bow faster.

Gaile Gray.6028:

It would be extremely rare for this to trigger an account suspension or termination. Naturally, if it happens you should contact Support, but I think you’ll be fine as long as you are making a legitimate transfer and not engaging in sketchy stuff.

1st case:
That’s pretty much an example of sketchy stuff. Getting an Achievement with someone else’s money is of course not the right way to go.

2nd case:
Well that is rather odd, of course something like that shouldn’t trigger an account suspension. Was that the only thing he did or did he maybe also sent stuff to other people around the same time?

Wait did someone say that anet isnt ban happy? Noone remembers the great ban waves post launch where people were getting banned just for buying stuff off merchants?

He’s right to be scared and to make a post on the forums as a disclaimer.

Wesley.4590:

1st case:
That’s pretty much an example of sketchy stuff. Getting an Achievement with someone else’s money is of course not the right way to go.

That’s hardly sketchy I mean how is it any different from someone giving him the money or earning the money he still had the money for the achievement regardless of how long he was in possession of it. As long as it’s properly earned money and not bought from gold sellers then it’s their prerogative on what they use the gold for. Nothing wrong with helping someone get an achievement.

If that was the case then all those people being carried through dungeons or paying for dungeon master title should be banned also (Not saying that I necessarily agree that it’s an honest way of achieving them as I personally feel it’s a cheap way of getting them but it’s not a sketchy or bannable offense).