Recent Account Bans

Originally Posted by Travaail

the difference here is that the access to WoW is a service which you continuously pay for which can be denied but in guild wars the access is a single purchase which defines it as sole property of the purchaser. whereas the game itself belongs to the company who makes it.

and in fact you do own your "account" so to speak but nothing actually ON the account. since the game key is defined as the point of access for a non pay to play game such as guild wars instead of a pay to access game. so under various countries law they cannot ban but could quite legitimately delete everything on the account while its on temporary ban and then give access back. it all depends on the country involved.

Originally Posted by majoho

If you have any kind of point with your post I suggest you provide a link to a won case surely there must be one...

or are you just trolling?

Originally Posted by Travaail

i will point out for those interested: in certain countries such as the netherlands and the UK they can not legally permanently ban you do to various parts of the intellectual property laws...so i suggest pointing that out to support unless they wish to be in violation of laws. in the US i will point out that this is a viable (and has successfully litigated precedents) cause for a law suit because the game is essentially the purchase of a right to access a product and as the game is not a "pay to play" game there is no "service' according to US law which can be legally terminated. the "access" to guildwars is a solely owned (by the game purchaser) property whereas the game itself belongs to anet or whoever has the intellectual property rights..which means that termination of access is a violation of intellectual property laws..anyone who actually cares enough i would suggest contacting an intellectual property law firm. In these situations citing precedent is usually enough.

now i will say that i do not support botting or violating EULA, but only pointing out the loopholes that currently exist in IP law. (or in the case of the netherlands and UK firm laws protecting consumer rights) i'm sure arena net would highly disagree with the ideas i suggested but..the law is the law whether or not it is a just law is another story.
and yes sadly this would mean that no one could be "legally banned" in certain countries but the opinion of those nation's governing bodies was that a "lawfully and rightfully obtained product cannot be legally denied to the consumer unless in violation of law" and if the product itself was access not ownership of the game then denying access regardless of a EULA that only regards the gameplay and not the access is not lawful..

something to think about~ and if interested in possible legal recourse i suggest googling class action intellectual property rights.

Originally Posted by Guild Wars User Agreement; Section 15

15. GENERAL PROVISIONS

This Agreement is governed by and shall be construed and enforced under the laws of The State of Texas, without applying any conflicts of law principles which would require application of the law of any other jurisdiction. NC Interactive and you each hereby irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Texas for all purposes in connection with any action or proceeding which arises out of or relates to this Agreement and agree that any action or proceeding instituted under this Agreement shall be brought only in the state courts of Travis County, State of Texas.

Originally Posted by JonnieBoi05

Maybe you should read this:

Originally Posted by tha walkin dude

^would that be because you've never actually seen one of those cases, so by extension, you have also not seen anyone lose one of those cases?

Originally Posted by JonnieBoi05

Maybe you should read this:

Originally Posted by Hellick Stoner

Already being deleted! I started a thread entitled: " legal action for accounts banned" 30 min later it was delted.

Originally Posted by Regina Buenaobra

As some of you may have already heard, we banned more than 3,700 accounts today. Those banned were positively identified as botters or players engaged in PvP match manipulation. We also disbanded whole guilds that were involved in these activities.

We saw the threads about your concerns with botting over the past couple months. We weren’t ignoring you, but we couldn't talk about what we were doing beforehand, as we didn’t want to tip our hand and inadvertently alert the botters to our plans. We take this issue very seriously and will continue to hunt for botters and cheaters of all sorts. There are consequences if you engage in botting or match manipulation.

Our Design Director, James Phinney, has provided more information about the bans and about our plans for continuing to pursue those involved in exploiting in his most recent blog post. Head over here to check it out.

Originally Posted by Hellick Stoner

no they are banning accounts because someone reported you.

Originally Posted by Hellick Stoner

If Anet wanted to do anything about the botting they could sue the maker of the bots.. Blizzard has successful done it; but no they are banning accounts because someone reported you. it hearsay! Anet is hoping everyone banned will buy another account. more money in thier pocket. wasn't to long ago with another jap gaming company's president was sentenced to 5 years for have a business in selling thier own ingame gold and then banning accounts..

Originally Posted by Dont Cause Drama

Peace out dead game

Originally Posted by Dont Cause Drama

I wonder what Anets servers would do if 3700 people actually logged in everyday. This might be the worst thing Anet has ever done. They think they can stop bots? They are gonna get f**ked on gw2 release. Its gonna be more dead than Aion.

Originally Posted by Acumen

Aion is even more popular than Guild Wars, 8th on Xfire. I know these numbers aren't absolute, but do you have anything other than guessing to back your statements that no one plays Guild Wars up?