Guild Wars 2

Not sad that you did it, sad you feel you have to because AreaNet is so ban happy.

It is sad, when people have to post about such small things on the forums, because they are scared of getting suspended.

Alexixiv.4582:

Yes I have started considering my options today as far as possible compensation… I may not have to pay to play the game but I certainly didnt buy it just for the pretty box…

If you bought the digital version, all you get for your $60 is a game client.

Good luck, I’m about 3 days deep into a similar issue, have only got one response to my ticket, and it had nothing to do with my ticket.

Heartnet.4598:

Ralsti.2147:

Heartnet.4598:

Im srsly stumped as to why you would even call ur characters that in the first place. Your obviously just testing arenanets patience.

Please reply as to a good reason your characters are called that

How is Cash Money or No Friends an anyway testing anybody’s patients?

Cash Money is obviously going to be related to gold sellers and therefor just stupid to make ur character named that and No friends… some people dont like to hear that in an MMO… hell most people dont like to hear that anywhen.. to put it as ur characters name is just rude

I think you are being RIDICULOUS. CashMoney could be used for someone that really enjoys trading and plays the game to maximize gold rather then progress. No Friends could simply mean a player prefers to play alone. People really need to chill out and not worry so much about other people.

Heartnet.4598:

Im srsly stumped as to why you would even call ur characters that in the first place. Your obviously just testing arenanets patience.

Please reply as to a good reason your characters are called that

How is Cash Money or No Friends an anyway testing anybody’s patients?

Moderator.9302:

Ralsti.2147:

Still wouldn’t mind hearing from a moderator.

The forum moderators cannot help you with your account issues. You will have to wait on an ArenaNet support staff member to reply. Sorry.

Well thank you for your reply, now if only when they respond to my ticket, they responded to an issue that pertained to my ticket. However, thank you for doing your job correctly.

Kevhoran.1780:

Ralsti.2147:

I think people need to differentiate between a “ban” or a “suspension”. If it is not final, its is a suspension, if you can never log on again, it is a ban. I agree that at this point they should remove all suspensions as it seems many people, including myself, are getting suspended for things we haven’t actually done. But keep the bans as it keeps the hackers from using stolen accounts.

This is a good point and I think it could work as indeed the hacked accounts have a full ban on them where as the rest are indeed suspended.

But I guess arena net thinks a little different on this part and it is in their right to first actually check out if it was proper to suspend them or not as a lot of people have been saying they were innocent even though they were not (not accusing anyone here, just stating from other threads)

A simple email, stating what had been done, would surly help. All these people suspended fur cursing would know exactly what they said. I truly believe many of them don’t remember the things they said. In my case however, I have been banned for defrauding someone of in-game items, currency, or services. Now there is no possible way anything I have done while playing solo up to this point could be interpreted in such a way. If they took the time to send emails out explaining these things, they would catch them selves before mistakenly suspending innocent parties, and avoid so many un happy customers.

I think people need to differentiate between a “ban” or a “suspension”. If it is not final, its is a suspension, if you can never log on again, it is a ban. I agree that at this point they should remove all suspensions as it seems many people, including myself, are getting suspended for things we haven’t actually done. But keep the bans as it keeps the hackers from using stolen accounts.

Still wouldn’t mind hearing from a moderator.

mcl.9240:

Sabas.8431:

Impaler.6204:

Bans for unthinkable things? What unthinkable things are you referring to?

Seriously?

You and I both know that some people here and on other fora are getting banned/suspended for what is concidered mild behaviour within the gaming community.

There is no need to go into specifics as I was talking to Arenanet not you.
And I do say this in a very pollite manner.

“the gaming community” encompasses a very wide variety of people. The small subsection of “the gaming community” that consider that sort of behavior “mild” are those who think it’s perfectly okay to be obscene, harassing, demeaning, and offensive in public chat (e.g., XBox Live Voice Chat, various public WoW chat channels, etc.).

To be blunt, there are quite a few members of the gaming community who do not appreciate that sort of behavior AT ALL. And there are many who have actually either severely restricted their gaming, or stopped altogether because of this extremely vocal and extremely offensive minority.

People who either stopped playing WoW or gave up on using trade chat and world chat altogether due to that sort of thing.

People who have given up entirely on using voice chat on gaming consoles, and may well have passed over buying certain games due to their reliance on that feature.

People who find their enjoyment of various online games diminished greatly by exactly this sort of behavior.

Don’t go painting “the gaming community” as a gaggle of ill-mannered, immature miscreants who not only lack the self-control necessary to refrain from obscenities while they’re speaking in public, but think it’s both acceptable and encouraged.

without the numbers in front of me. I would imagine a VERY small minority has passed up on games because of voice chat or public chat systems.

A white man who uses the n word can’t do that. He is and always will be seen as a member of the dominant class, the slaveowner rather than the slave. The word can never be inclusive, because the two men don’t share that identity.

Good Bye![/quote]

Are we really talking about slave owners in 2012?

Hmmm, and then after waiting, I get an email that has NOTHING to do with my ticket…….[Incident: 120906-009857]

Dragonlord.6748:

Been allot of account compromises with the launch of this game.
Could it be that someone accessed your account to use it for gold selling advertisements?

I understand your frustration, but if you have used the same email/password combinations here as you have in other games its most likely thats what happened.

Someone got your email and password from some other game and used it here to get access to your account, and then used your account to advertise for gold selling sites

I appreciate your reply but this does not apply to me. I use an email account and password SPECIFICALLY for this game.

I have been suspended for “defrauding someone of in-game items, currency, or services”. I have not had one single interaction with ANY player involving in-game items currency or services. I have simply been leveling on my own, been in a party ONCE with a RL friend and we didn’t even play together, just used party chat. On top of this I was banned after not playing for 48 hours and then logged in to find out I was suspended with 61 hour still left. This makes no sense and I have been waiting 48 hours for at least an explanation of what I did to warrant a 72 hour suspension. My character name is Chronic Abuse, I would VERY MUCH appreciate reasoning as to why I am suspended so I can at least try to wrap my head around this situation. Whether that is publicly in this post or privately to my email I don’t care.

[Incident: 120906-009857]

I have been banned for “defrauding someone of in-game items, currency, or services”. I have not had one single interaction with ANY player involving in-game items currency or services. I have simply been leveling on my own, been in a party ONCE with a RL friend and we didn’t even play together, just used party chat. On top of this I was banned after not playing for 48 hours and then logged in to find out I was suspended with 61 hour still left. This makes no sense and I have been waiting 48 hours for at least an explanation of what I did to warrant a 72 hour suspension. This is a bigger joke the Diablo3 thus far.

JonasX.6045:

Ralsti.2147:

I have a 3 day suspension for “defrauding someone of in-game items, currency, or services.”
I have not even played with other players in GW2 yet. I have not traded with anyone, I have only partied with a RL friend ONCE. I don’t understand how I could have possibly defrauded someone, and have NO idea why I have been suspended. Character name is Chronic Abuse.

Ralsti, i feel you bro! im feeling the same here! well i have a worst one, mine is permanent ban! Goodness -.-

Almost makes me wish we had to pay to play. Then at least they could afford a decent customer service team. If people are getting banned for simply saying a world boss is a B* in map chat and others are getting banned for really doing nothing, this game is going to fail harder then Diablo 3.

I have a 3 day suspension for “defrauding someone of in-game items, currency, or services.”
I have not even played with other players in GW2 yet. I have not traded with anyone, I have only partied with a RL friend ONCE. I don’t understand how I could have possibly defrauded someone, and have NO idea why I have been suspended. Character name is Chronic Abuse.

I have a 3 day suspension for “defrauding someone of in-game items, currency, or services.”
I have not even played with other players in GW2 yet. I have not traded with anyone, I have only partied with a RL friend ONCE. I don’t understand how I could have possibly defrauded someone, and have NO idea why I have been suspended. Character name is Chronic Abuse.

P.S. I just tried logging on today for the first time since Sunday the 2nd yet somehow today Wed the 4th have 61 hours of suspension left for again, something I couldn’t possibly have done.

mcl.9240:

TouchOfRed.8359:

Sol.3296:

Bellok.4180:

Its fine for having to deal with your mistakes, however generally the public can take care of that. If a person is vile enough in chat then most likely he/she will get a reputation within that community. With my experience at least in mmo’s communities for the different servers become tightly nit and usually don’t associate themselves with these people making it hard for that person to find friends, etc. Thus making the game not fun for that person because of the way he/she acted.

I completely agree that is the appropriate solution but that just simply doesn’t happen, I’m sorry. Time and again I create a separate chat pane without trade, area, map etc so that I’m not bombarded with nonsense and turn it on when I need it for LFG or similar. And it is no different in any MMO I’ve played. The problem is that these people are acting completely different on the internet than they would IRL. Ignore them all you want but they have no issue finding others to play with or pay $20 to server transfer and start again.

This just shouldn’t have to be the case and I’m glad that someone is taking an active stance for once saying that ‘no, this should not happen and if you act like a tool then you’re going to pay the price’.

Trolling is different from the minor cases that we’re bringing up in this conversation though. We’re not talking about someone swearing and insulting people and trying tokitten people off. We’re talking about people who used a swear or ‘inappropriate’ word (god forbid you hear or see one in a game or movie, right?) in a completely unoffensive context, not directed at someone else. I used some directed at NPC’s, in friendly conversation with some people. Still got reported and banned for 3 days. And again, if that’s how they want to run their game, then so be it. But they’re going to lose a lot of people like that, me included. It’s a video game. I don’t play it to be a tightwad and watch my mouth like I have to at work.

So you think everyone who plays the game should be fine with your antisocial behavior because you don’t feel like behaving yourself in a videogame setting?

There is a language filter for a reason right?

I haven’t even played the game for over three days. Still have a 61 hour suspension. It would be one thing if I had done something even similar to what I have been accused of, but have literally have had almost NO contact with other players and have not even attempted trading.

Godmoney.2048:

Ralsti.2147:

I have a 3 day suspension for “defrauding someone of in-game items, currency, or services.”

I have not even played with other players in GW2 yet. I have not traded with anyone, I have only partied with a RL friend ONCE. I don’t understand how I could have possibly defrauded someone, and have NO idea why I have been suspended. Character name is Chronic Abuse.

Some how this doesn’t surprise me. I can’t even imagine what your suspension even means.

I have a 3 day suspension for “defrauding someone of in-game items, currency, or services.”

I have not even played with other players in GW2 yet. I have not traded with anyone, I have only partied with a RL friend ONCE. I don’t understand how I could have possibly defrauded someone, and have NO idea why I have been suspended. Character name is Chronic Abuse.