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Question about a ban

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Sabotage.7590

Sorry to make a new thread but you locked the ticket without giving me a chance to respond.

“Exactly.
Sabotage — you are free to update the ticket — or have the account owner do so, as appropriate — to ask your questions, but we’re not going to provide that information here and quite honestly, by the time it’s gone through so many reviews, we are quite sure that the person whose account was terminated knows exactly what caused that termination, and is asking for unacceptable reasons. I truly understand why this question would be asked in a case of a false positive, but if I remember this correctly, the case was received many times and the data just didn’t show room for question. In fact, in most cases I’ve seen, the data is very clear and very conclusive.”

Does that mean that despite the ticket saying “Final Response” I might still get a reply through the ticketing system by replying to the ticket? That was not my interpretation of the reply. If that is the case I will continue communications with the support staff through the ticket.

I do not need information regarding third party software or detection, I cannot dispute the use of third party software, as her account was hacked and being used by another person. I would like THAT fact to be reviewed and would like to see what evidence made it an “impossibility” that the account was, unbeknownst to her, logged into and used for malicious purposes. We have since completely wiped that hard drive, and gotten her a completely new one with a fresh install of windows and have done our due diligence to make sure her PC is secure.

“we are quite sure that the person whose account was terminated knows exactly what caused that termination”
It is incredibly insulting to make this assumption about a person who is very dear to me, and who I live with and game with every day. Aside from the fact that it is blatantly incorrect, it shows an alarming lack of objectivity when trying to determine guilt or innocence. It tells me that you are assuming guilt and looking for indications of guilt, and not evidence that the account was indeed hacked and not in her control (that may not have been your intent, but as a customer, that is how I read a statement like that). I work in the support field too and I would NEVER make a statement like this to a customer who just wants more information.

As I said before, I am trying to be as reasonable as possible and just want to be treated fairly as a customer who is being punished for being the victim of a hacker. If the systems you use to determine whether an account was hacked or not do not show that her account was not used by her, then they are insufficient to be used by a company as large and profitable as ARENANET. Maybe for a game like league of legends (if i’m not supposed to name other games I apologize, i just wanted a valid example), where you can just make a new account for free and start over it is fine, but not when I payed full price and pre-ordered the game.

We are not asking for her account to be recreated, we don’t even care about her characters (they were around level 20 at the highest when we stopped playing and she is going to re-roll a new character anyways). We just want to be able to play the game again together. Failing that, at least an honest reason why the account cannot be recreated or even a blank slate account assigned. “We are confident in our decision” frankly is not good enough for me, because the decision is wrong.

I know that you must get a lot of people upset that their accounts got banned, guilty or otherwise, so I understand the brevity of the answers in the support tickets. I apologize if anything I said sounds disrespectful or impatient, that is not my intent.

Thank you for your time.

Question about a ban

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Sabotage.7590

130831-002144 Final response sent 9/05

Appeal denied, final response.

As a paying customer for an active account and the banned account (and potentially 2 more accounts if I get a decent answer as to the reason for the ban other than “third party software, case closed”). Can I see what evidence was so kitten ing to her case? Her account was hacked, there is no way your team could come to another conclusion unless their evidence and/or process is very severely flawed and I would very much like to see what they based their decision on.

I don’t mean to sound antagonistic. I just am genuinely disappointed at the short form letter we received stating basically just “your account is banned, the decision is final”.

I would like some more information on the matter.

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Sabotage.7590

My girlfriend and I, along with a group of friends, pre-ordered and played guild wars 2 at launch. We had to quit playing for a significant amount of time (i think over a year) due to school, work, moving and other real life issues.

Recently we have caught the bug and want to start playing again. I was able to log into my account just fine, but her password did not seem to work.
We put in a support ticket and found out the following information:
During our break, her account was hacked (mine had numerous login attempts from China but they were all denied, i have the emails from those attempts)
Apparently, the hacker used third party software which resulted in a ban of the account. The reply in the support ticket states that Arenanet is confident in its decision and will not view any appeals for this ban.

We have completely reinstalled windows and wiped her hard drive, there is no way, if a keylogger or malware was used, it will still be there on that computer.
We just want to be able to play again, I am already paying for half of the price of the game again to get another friend to play with us. I cannot afford to buy her another copy of the game.

Even if it is a complete account wipe with all characters deleted, she just wants to be able to access the game.

Can somebody please help with this matter?

Reference Ticket Incident Number: 130831-002144

My apologies for posting this in the wrong place the first time.

Hacked account was banned

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Sabotage.7590

Urg indeed, hackers do suck! I know forum members cant do anything but its nice to get a response from anyone regardless

Hacked account was banned

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Sabotage.7590

We answered the verification questions to the best of our abilities. It has been quite some time since we stopped playing, so there were some gaps in our information. No worries devils advocate works for me. I want to be able to provide everything needed to get this resolved as easily as possible!

Hacked account was banned

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Sabotage.7590

My girlfriend and I, along with a group of friends, pre-ordered and played guild wars 2 at launch. We had to quit playing for a significant amount of time (i think over a year) due to school, work, moving and other real life issues.

Recently we have caught the bug and want to start playing again. I was able to log into my account just fine, but her password did not seem to work.

We put in a support ticket and found out the following information:

During our break, her account was hacked (mine had numerous login attempts from China but they were all denied, i have the emails from those attempts)
Apparently, the hacker used third party software which resulted in a ban of the account. The reply in the support ticket states that Arenanet is confident in its decision and will not view any appeals for this ban.

We have completely reinstalled windows and wiped her hard drive, there is no way, if a keylogger or malware was used, it will still be there on that computer.

We just want to be able to play again, I am already paying for half of the price of the game again to get another friend to play with us. I cannot afford to buy her another copy of the game.

Even if it is a complete account wipe with all characters deleted, she just wants to be able to access the game.

Can somebody please help with this matter?

Reference Ticket Incident Number: 130831-002144