How far would you be willing to go?

Chicken Ftw

Chicken Ftw

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2006

I would suddenly feel the need for a delicious caek. I would not eat said caek, instead, I would set a really complex trap around it. Then, I would challenge people to devise ways to reach it, and derive pleasure from their failures.

...Or I'd go out for a beer with friends. Either way.

Trub

Trub

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

Sitting in the guildhall, watching the wallows frolic.

Trinity of the ascended [SMS]+[Koss]+[TAM]=[ToA]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Chicken Ftw
I would suddenly feel the need for a delicious caek. I would not eat said caek, instead, I would set a really complex trap around it. Then, I would challenge people to devise ways to reach it, and derive pleasure from their failures.

...Or I'd go out for a beer with friends. Either way.
Out for a beer...with him....
Don't bannzorz me!!!!

Zahr Dalsk

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2007

Canada

1- What extraordinary action would you take?: Take an EMP bomb to the Guild Wars servers.

2- Instead of a Permanent Ban .... - A temporary ban.

3- As a bonus... PLEASE.... Set my heroes back to level 1, you know that will hurt me more than anything else because I love my heroes so much.

4- If I am allowed to come back, I will join and help a Pickup Group.

Or maybe just buy new copies of the game.

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

I wouldn't do anything.

"Don't do the crime, if you can't face the time."

I say no more.

Gattocheese

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2007

New Mexico

GWEN

I dont want to be a hijacker or troll here. The thread seems calm enough. But the whole 117 subject needs to go. What ever powers be or inspired by, this thread is bait and will bring up the situation again. I am asking for a closing of this thread quickly before it gets out of hand and just repeats the fodder the last thread had.

Chicken Ftw

Chicken Ftw

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Trub
Out for a beer...with him....
Don't bannzorz me!!!!


Just me and Alex then! Maybe Bry.

Trub

Trub

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

Sitting in the guildhall, watching the wallows frolic.

Trinity of the ascended [SMS]+[Koss]+[TAM]=[ToA]

1- What extraordinary action would you take?: I would eat a bug.
2- Instead of a Permanent Ban .... I would eat 2 bugs!
3- As a bonus... PLEASE.... Pass the grey poupon...these bugs taste nashty!!
4- If I am allowed to come back, I will : Open a homeless wallow refuge..

Maria The Princess

Maria The Princess

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

Aequitas Deis

1- extraordinary action: find out Gaile's and her superviser's home number, address and personal email. then id send her a video cassette of me crying and begging to get my account back. if that doesn't work ill start calling, emailing, sending more videos...

2- instead of permanent ban: ban me for a month or two

3- as a bonus: id even pay a $$$ fine if i need

4- if im allowed to come back: ill look at every outpust on the wiki map before going there, will report every little glitch i find and never come even close to it again

Amryn

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2008

A chemistry book

Team Asshats[Hat]

Me/Mo

I would realize that if I got so worked up over being top dog in a video game in an online community to the point of being banned, I would probably take the hint, turn off the computer, suffer the sunlight, and learn what it means to live in the real world with real people.

GWCaptain

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2008

1. Good riddance.

RhanoctJocosa

RhanoctJocosa

Legendary Korean

Join Date: Aug 2006

The Benecia Renovatio [RenO]

W/

1- What extraordinary action would you take?: Hold Gaile Gray for ransom (<3 you baby)

2- Instead of a Permanent Ban .... - Nothing

3- As a bonus... Give me a mini panda for my lost time

4- If I am allowed to come back, I will ....... - Try not to get caught next time

Trub

Trub

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2006

Sitting in the guildhall, watching the wallows frolic.

Trinity of the ascended [SMS]+[Koss]+[TAM]=[ToA]

Quote:
Originally Posted by RhanoctJocosa
1- What extraordinary action would you take?: Hold Gaile Gray for ransom (<3 you baby)

2- Instead of a Permanent Ban .... - Nothing

3- As a bonus... Give me a mini panda for my lost time

4- If I am allowed to come back, I will ....... - Try not to get caught next time

/facepalm
At least your honest..hehehee

ShadowsRequiem

ShadowsRequiem

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2005

Inde is Smoking [Hawt] *ToA*

W/E

Bitch and bitch and bitch and whine too! On this forum and to anet how I had nothing to do with it...... Until someone posts a bad screenshot of me with 1750 armbraces.... I mean..... that outpost place....

Kusandaa

Kusandaa

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

N/Mo

1- What extraordinary action would you take?: Hesitating between taking hostages or going on a hunger strike.

2- Instead of a Permanent Ban .... - Ban me for a couple weeks or something.

3- As a bonus... PLEASE.... - Strip all of my characters armors, titles... except my necromancer's titles and FoW/15k Luxon sets.

4- If I am allowed to come back, I will ....... - Stop picking on annoying noobs...

Note this has been grossly exaggerated >_>. I'd just find a new game to play.

Vinraith

Vinraith

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2006

If banned I'd send an email to support contesting it (because it'd almost certainly be illegitimate). If I got an inadequate response through normal channels, I would simply quit the game and advise others not to bother with it. Anet would get no further sales from me, and nothing but negative word of mouth. I don't care enough to do something extraordinary, it's a fun game but that's all it is. I don't deal with people that don't respect me, and if I got banned that's exactly how it would read to me.

Fortunately, since I'm not in the business of exploiting the game, there's not much threat of it. Exploiters should be banned, far more often than they are.

arcanemacabre

arcanemacabre

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Feb 2006

North Kryta Province

Angel Sharks [As]

Quote:
Originally Posted by ensoriki
I'd be really pissed off
Send an email to A-net
Then post something on guru.

If nothing happens, I'll simply quit GW

Life goes on....to the next video game
Exactly what I'd do.


To OP: Seriously? You'd fly out there? Seriously? That's some pixel dedication.

Bryant Again

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

Having been banned a large number of times, my contribution to this won't be too exciting:

1. I'd send tickets. Like I always have.

2. Ban or no ban. No exceptions.

3. Again, leave me banned or unbanned. I shouldn't have to "earn" my unban.

4. Keep playing the game.

leprekan

leprekan

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

Posers and Wannabes [nubs]

W/E

I wouldn't call for a thread to be closed where people were trying to present a case to Anet .. then start one similar to it.

Redfeather1975

Redfeather1975

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2006

Apartment#306

Rhedd Asylum

Me/

I would buy a new account if I really wished to continue playing, or I would play something else.
I wouldn't attempt to invoke any type of mercy towards myself.
That would be developing a supposition that I had done no wrong.
I'd just live on and adapt.

Esan

Esan

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2007

Wars

Quote:
Originally Posted by Redfeather1975
I would buy a new account if I really wished to continue playing
Can't do that, I'm afraid. Bans are for the player, not the account, according to the EULA. All future accounts of banned users can be simply terminated.

arcanemacabre

arcanemacabre

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Feb 2006

North Kryta Province

Angel Sharks [As]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Esan
Can't do that, I'm afraid. Bans are for the player, not the account, according to the EULA. All future accounts of banned users can be simply terminated.
This is true - perma-banned really means perma-banned.

artay

artay

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

Australia

The Agony Scene

E/

1- What extraordinary action would you take?:Crawl through the Arena Net vent system until I get to head's office.

2- Instead of a Permanent Ban .... - Unban me with full access to the underworld/FoW/Deep/everywhere with all enemies non aggressive even if I attack them. Also I get all titles maxed on all characters I have.
Have the ability to change peoples gender at will. They have to scan in a picture of my ass and make it the Rank 15 emote.

3- As a bonus... PLEASE.... - I get all of the devs teams right hands cut off and pickled, because they stole from me my account.

4- If I am allowed to come back, I will ....... - Be extremely rich.

Now I want to be banned

Redfeather1975

Redfeather1975

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2006

Apartment#306

Rhedd Asylum

Me/

That's okay then. I'd either sneakily buy another account until that got banned, if I really had to keep playing or just play another game.
There seem to be people on gwonline saying the bannings are Anet's way of forcing people to buy the game again in order to make more money. It would seem that is not the case.

Scary Raebbit

Scary Raebbit

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

1- What extraordinary action would you take?: Send a few e-mails asking why, and if they can't really do anything then it sure is a nice time to quit, with everything picking up.

2- Instead of a Permanent Ban .... - Suspension, I dunno lol

3- As a bonus... PLEASE.... - wut?

4- If I am allowed to come back, I will ....... - do whatever I want.

Longasc

Longasc

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

No idea what I would do, I hope I will never get into the situation.

But you can see how far people can go that got banned for a good reason, the infamous 117. In this thread they were in the state of denial, then they tried reasoning, then they questioned the duration of the band and whatever.

P.S.: The next banwave will be 4400.

Maca

Maca

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Guardians Of The Stars

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Esan
Can't do that, I'm afraid. Bans are for the player, not the account, according to the EULA. All future accounts of banned users can be simply terminated.
Are you sure? I was banned in WOW, sent few emails got automatic reply, and after 2 weeks got a new game and I am playing it ever since w/o any problems.
Same thing I would do with GW i guess.

sterbenx2

sterbenx2

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2007

New England

Lunatic Legion

N/

Just e-mail support. I was perma banned once and sent ONE support ticket only to find out I was banned "in error" as they put it. I was given my account back right after they read the ticket.

So, I guess thats all I'd do. If I DID break the EULA then I'd take the ban lose everything and either buy them all again or wait for GW2. The only thing to say here is, don't break their rules. You don't wanna end up in jail, don't break the law, same principle here.

MrSlayer

MrSlayer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2006

United Kingdom

Quit Whining And [PLAY]

Mo/

1- What extraordinary action would you take?: Move FULLY across to World of Warcraft (I play occasionally atm)

2- Instead of a Permanent Ban .... - Ban me for 1 month

3- As a bonus... Delete all my characters except my Monk

4- If I am allowed to come back, I will ....... - Heal things?

upier

upier

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Done.

[JUNK]

If my account would get banned ....

I'd bitch on Guru. (Pretty much because it's the only site that still tolerates my insanity! )
Bitch some more.
And bitch some more.

And that would be it. Oh and never buying anything else from anyone connected with GW.

What? I am a paying customer - BUT bitching is ALWAYS fun!



@ Amryn

Etta

Etta

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2006

Mancland, British Empire

Quote:
How far would you be willing to go?
How far? About the distance of my bed to my toilet.

Seriouly, if I was banned from cheating, I'd take it like a man. Christ! they've got some balls to hacked, cheated or whatever and when they got caught red handed, what did they do? Dropped their freaking balls and cried, what a bunch of mook!

Jetdoc

Jetdoc

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Jul 2005

The Eyes of Texas [BEVO]

D/A

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dont Mess WithMe
1- What extraordinary action would you take?: Uninstall the game and find something else to do that doesn't involve personal enjoyment being derived from circumventing rules.

2- Instead of a Permanent Ban .... - Require that I repurchase all four campaigns. $100+ real life dollars is a worthy penalty.

3- As a bonus... PLEASE.... - Require that I wear the title "Cheating is not right. Do not try to circumvent the rules for your own personal gain, or end up like me."

4- If I am allowed to come back, I will ....... - Find another exploit. Think about that before reinstating me.
Here's my response.

Amryn

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2008

A chemistry book

Team Asshats[Hat]

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by upier

What? I am a paying costumer - BUT bitching is ALWAYS fun!
I thought costumers were paid by customers....Not the other way around.







(sorry, it's this thing...when I read that "I'm a paying costumer!" I giggle because if being a paying customer was The Be All End All then you'd know how to spell it. /works retail)

Keithark

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

Be Aggressive B E Aggressive [AGRO]

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dont Mess WithMe
This thread was inspired by what has happened with the 117, but is not based on it. I am not one of them, none of my friends are.

This is not a plea pro 117, nor an attack.

I'm just curious. I keep thinking, what would I do? how far would I go? if this was me. If my account was banned... the thought makes me sick.

So this is the scenario... IMAGINE that your account was banned. How far would you be willing to go to get it back?

Please don't post "I didn't do anything, it wasn't an exploit, I didn't know..." This thread is NOT about the 117. It's about the rest of us, IF our account was banned.

You are in front of the CEO super boss of ANET ( or 2, I think). You have been accused of something so severe they are going to PERMANENTLY BAN your account.This is your chance to plea a bargain:

1- What extraordinary action would you take?: Get on a plane and fly to ANET's Headquarters.

2- Instead of a Permanent Ban .... - Ban me for 3 months.

3- As a bonus... PLEASE.... - Strip all my characters of armor, weapons, gold. Please leave my Holiday Hats and my titles ( if possible, or keep the titles, but please leave my hats).

4- If I am allowed to come back, I will ....... - never, ever, ever go anywhere anything that doesn't look right.

Please Follow the question format. Thanks!!
Too much work...I'd just buy someone elses account from them so I would not have to re-do all the work I had done already

Mork from Ork

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by Esan
Can't do that, I'm afraid. Bans are for the player, not the account, according to the EULA. All future accounts of banned users can be simply terminated.
Only if you are stupid enough to use your real name and address etc. As I remember I didn't even do that with my original account and certainly wouldn't do it with a replacement. I don't believe in giving personal information to any company unless I am absolutely sure how they will use it.

Turtle222

Turtle222

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2007

:D:D

D/W

i'd just quit.

upier

upier

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Done.

[JUNK]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Amryn
I thought costumers were paid by customers....Not the other way around.







(sorry, it's this thing...when I read that "I'm a paying costumer!" I giggle because if being a paying customer was The Be All End All then you'd know how to spell it. /works retail)
See that's why I HATE my spellchecker!
I mistyped it - and this was the only suggestion it offered to me. AND I blindly took it - thinking "HA! What do I know!"


/sneaks off to fix the previous post

RTSFirebat

RTSFirebat

The Humanoid Typhoon

Join Date: May 2005

UK

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

R/

Firstly don't double post.

In regards to a.net's security I don't think anyone here has a right to comment on it, considering none of us know how it works.

However I'm sure like all large companies they have a number of security firewalls and devices in place to prevent data from being stolen.

The game was hacked CLIENT SIDE, not server side. So really their data protection is not questionable at all.

Now if someone hacked the game SERVER SIDE that would be a different manner all together. But that hasn't been the case yet.

RTSFirebat

RTSFirebat

The Humanoid Typhoon

Join Date: May 2005

UK

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

R/

Yes I see what you mean now

Amryn

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2008

A chemistry book

Team Asshats[Hat]

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by upier
See that's why I HATE my spellchecker!
I mistyped it - and this was the only suggestion it offered to me. AND I blindly took it - thinking "HA! What do I know!"


/sneaks off to fix the previous post

hahaha, it's without a doubt my favorite type evAr.

I use google toolbar spellcheck.

Puritans Aid

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

W/

I would be willing to do nearly anything to not loose 15 lvl 20 characters that have over half of them beaten all 4 games. i would fly to where ever anet is and have lunch with them, and pay them for all the games over again, and let them take all my leet loot that I aquired over 3 years, to keep the lvls and the chars. I dont care for hats, but I had them all.

LOL

Then I would sign with blood an agreement to never ever do anything, that might be a bug glitch etc again, and then have them explain to me in plain talk how to tell what is and isnt part of the game, as I clearly have no idea anymore.

Puritan