Banned 6 months ago

dudeimoncoke

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2006

I was banned around 6 months ago for abusing the trade window glitch. Yeah a ban was necessary but I mean being banned forever for something so stupid and something that was fixed overnight? Isn't 6 months enough punishment, especially for a first offense? I've sent many many support tickets to Anet and I don't even get a real response. All I get is the same automated message and my ticket gets closed. I guess I'm posting here so that Anet will at least give scammers a probationary period after a certain amount of time has passed.
I've played on this account ever since GW came out.

Even murderers get a chance at parole and I'm pretty sure killing people in real life is worse than scamming.

MSecorsky

MSecorsky

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

So Cal

The Sinister Vanguard

Me/

It would be faster to buy a new account and start fresh.

Leonhart

Leonhart

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Ascalon City

W/

Scammers let back into society. No thanks.

Antheus

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

That was exploit, not scam.

You were knowingly abusing flaw in game for your benefit. That's different from lying to someone.

And with the recently uncovered dupe exploit, you might as well forget any kind of compassion, ban bat is swinging wildly this very moment.

CyberMesh0

CyberMesh0

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

Charter Vanguard [CV]

N/Me

Sorry, you were the one that abused the ToS, no matter how silly your offense was.

If you must come back, buy a new account. Then you'll probably think twice about abusing glitches.

dudeimoncoke

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2006

I can't get a new account because I need written permission from Anet for that. It really isn't my fault that Anet made the game with glitches, but if people didn't use them no one would know they existed. So I was doing them a favor I guess.

Government Flu

Government Flu

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2007

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Paradoxa Zoloft Asylum [PXZ]

W/R

Sure, you didn't murder a person, so you don't have to go to jail or be gassed. However, you scammed someone, perhaps multiple someones for your benefit, leaving them in the dust wondering what happened.

For that, you won't go to jail, but you will be banned. You have been punished.

And those are the consquences of your actions. You've made someone(s) gaming experience miserable, and as such, you are now at the mercy of ArenaNet.

margretli

margretli

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2005

N/W

Did you report the glitch? Did you discover the glitch? Or did you "hear" it from someone else, and then exploited it?

If your home lock was made faulty, and someone broke in, stole everything you had, then claiming that if they hadn't broke in, you would've never found out about the faulty lock. Did the thief break any laws?

GloryFox

GloryFox

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2006

Good ol' USA, where everyone else wants to be

Now Plays World of Warcraft on Whisperwind

You get no mercy from us here today. I'm sorry you chose your own actions, good luck in finding a new home. Good luck in getting permission form ANET.

Now go rethink your life.

Loviatar

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Feb 2005

Quote:
Quote:
Originally Posted by dudeimoncoke
I can't get a new account because I need written permission from Anet for that. It really isn't my fault that Anet made the game with glitches, but if people didn't use them no one would know they existed. So I was doing them a favor I guess.
and they are returning that favor.

Delta_24

Delta_24

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2005

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by dudeimoncoke
It really isn't my fault that Anet made the game with glitches, but if people didn't use them no one would know they existed. So I was doing them a favor I guess.
But it was your fault that you used the fault in the game to meet your own ends. Bad argument, I'm afraid. You could've reported it to ANet without using it to exploit other people.

dudeimoncoke

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2006

I found out about it accidentally though, I traded the wrong item and then when I switched it out it showed up as a different amount than I put up. The guy reported me for it and I didn't even realize it until I tried to do it to a friend and he told me. Of course telling them it was an accident doesn't matter, who would believe it?

I'm not saying that I didn't deserve a punishment, I'm saying that an infinite punishment for a finite crime seems unreasonable, to me at least.

FelixCarter

FelixCarter

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by dudeimoncoke
It really isn't my fault that Anet made the game with glitches, but if people didn't use them no one would know they existed. So I was doing them a favor I guess.
lol wut.

This is a joke right? You are joking, right?

Where's a mod to lock threads like this?

pork soldier

pork soldier

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2005

So you scammed? GTFO of GW thxbai.

Solas

Solas

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2006

Ireland

Currently LF Active HA Guild, Glad 2, Comm.3, R2

E/

as for the first time offence thing,
makes sense to leave first afenders off with a parking ticket, not with thieft though.


jsut consider it an exile.

also why cant you get a new account?
you said somthing about permission form anet?

dudeimoncoke

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2006

Former Members. Members whose Accounts have been terminated by NC Interactive may not access the Service in any manner or for any reason, including through any other Account, without the express written permission of NC Interactive.

So in order to buy a new account I would have to get written permission from them first. Besides, how many people get banned forever and still care 6 months after the ban?

Caleb

Caleb

Nil nisi malis terrori.

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by FelixCarter


Where's a mod to lock threads like this?
/waves.

www.guildwars.com/support - best of luck.