Suspended account for buying gold?

shanemckay

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: May 2007

Hello, my GW account has been suspended for 76 hours for purchasing gold. Will my account return to full working order after that time? Will they remove the money from my storage and items I may have bought with the bought money?

Thanks

shane

Rikku Fantasia

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2008

Rune Of Superior Nerf

Mo/

your lucky they even temp baned your account buying gw gold with real money is against there (tos)Terms of service. so find your self lucky and any items u bough with real money gold ect will be removed i believe if i remeber reading right.

Rak Orgon of Beowulf

Rak Orgon of Beowulf

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2007

just chillin

Omg Gwen Is Legal [EotN]

make a permasin and farm.
don't buy gold. its stupid.
don't ruin my game.
:-)
should have gotten permanently banned imo

Onyx Blindbow

Onyx Blindbow

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2007

Here & There

Blades of Burning Shadows - GoDT

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rak Orgon of Beowulf View Post
make a permasin and farm.
don't buy gold. its stupid.
don't ruin my game.
:-)
should have gotten permanently banned imo
Over-reaction ftw????

Murderousferret

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Nov 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by Onyx Blindbow View Post
Over-reaction ftw????
Not at all, every cheater should be banned IMO , it's a multiplayer game, if you want to cheat, find a game you can play alone.

rick15465

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2005

Hahahaha. All I can say. Don't buy gold...
Perm banned ...lol 74 hours that's even less then my name-problem...

Darcy

Darcy

Never Too Old

Join Date: Jul 2006

Rhode Island where there are no GW contests

Order of First

W/R

You are very lucky that the ban is only a temp one. You should also consider yourself lucky if they don't just strip away everything on your account.

As there is no way to roll back a single character, someone would have to determine what was purchased with the gold. I would consider that a waste of an employee's time.

Dawgboy

Dawgboy

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Ohio

Antisocial Misfit

Stupid people gtfo of my game!
Should have been a perma-ban.
It's idiots like this that makes the botters thrive, which in turn causes Anet to take ham-fisted action against all farming, which in turn pisses me right off.

AtomicMew

AtomicMew

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

N/A

Why does everyone automatically assume buying gold is "cheating"? Is it because you are 15 and have never had a job yet? For some people, it is more efficient to buy gold than to farm for hours. Heck, some games even have built in mechanisms for buying gold.

People exchange currency in exchange for services/goods. It's called free market economy.

Of course, it is A net's right to disallow gold selling. It's just funny that people are so reactionary about it, when really, it's MYOB.

MirkoTeran

MirkoTeran

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2005

Slovenia

Scars Meadows [SMS]

Mo/

Just temp ban? Why?

miskav

miskav

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

None

Mo/

Serves you right, ha-ha.
Quote:
Originally Posted by traversc View Post
Why does everyone automatically assume buying gold is "cheating"? Is it because you are 15 and have never had a job yet? For some people, it is more efficient to buy gold than to farm for hours. Heck, some games even have built in mechanisms for buying gold.

People exchange currency in exchange for services/goods. It's called free market economy.

Of course, it is A net's right to disallow gold selling. It's just funny that people are so reactionary about it, when really, it's MYOB.
Contradict yourself more?

1) You state it's against the rules, which it is, Thus it's not allowed -> Cheating.
2) We care because it gives them an unfair advantage over us who actually PLAY the game to earn things in the game.
3)If a game has a built-in mechanic for buying the gold it's so that the GAME or the owners of the servers get more money, usually for server upkeep or development, right now it goes to botters.

Don't post unless you make sense, gtfo.

komma

komma

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2007

None

N/

you suck! dont cheat and buy gold.

Shayne Hawke

Shayne Hawke

Departed from Tyria

Join Date: May 2007

Clan Dethryche [dth]

R/

Wait. Is the ban saying that you got banned for buying gold, or are you saying that?

If you really are buying gold and not just a victim of transfering items between accounts, I'm quite surprised that you only got a temp ban. You should probably give up on GW if you have to rely on buying gold.

The process of what they do with bought gold is unclear to me, but it may be that they remove any items or gold related to bought gold. One case may be that you sold something to someone for gold that they purchased, and you're in the middle of a chain of people being tracked for the gold.

wind fire and ice

wind fire and ice

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Oct 2008

There

[ToA]

first i want to know why 72hr ban?

but either way-all money and i repeat-all- money on your account will be removed,otherwise it will be the same.

Also all things traded in the past however long will most likely be removed-im not 100% sure on that,but from the friends ive talked to who have transed money from one act to another and got banned,that seems to be what happens.

edit: at ruffwhatever under me,he cheated and hes worried about losing things,he deserves to be talked to badly.

In an online game you DO NOT cheat,you just dont,im sorry.
He isnt perma banned and hes whining about maybe losing somthing...

ruffenredie

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2007

R/Rt

You will probably lose all or most of the gold you bought, other than that it depends how closely they look at your account.

It is against the rules, you broke them and got caught, but ignore the level of animosity most of the responders have given you.

I wonder how many of you pious posters have actually never ever broken a rule yourselves. It really never ceases to amaze & sadden me just how unpleasant so many people in Guild Wars and even more so on this forum are to fellow gamers.

Does GW make you angry, or does it happen when you start spending too much time in dungeons?

Fril Estelin

Fril Estelin

So Serious...

Join Date: Jan 2007

London

Nerfs Are [WHAK]

E/

Why does everyone trust the OP? It sounds like a troll attempt. Or is cheating by buying gold fashionable these days?

Aba

Aba

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2006

Vancouver,Canada

hahaah hopefully all your characters are deleted.....and all you get left is one character slot for PVP,Random Arena only.

Neo Nugget

Neo Nugget

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

Question has been answered several times, no need to discuss this issue any further.

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