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How am I perma banned for chatting with my friends

studusstudus Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 6 Arc User
edited June 2013 in General Discussion (PC)
this is rather ridiculous. We were chatting in a our private channel talking about getting gold for pots n kits. Then came some warning, then bam! perma banned.

wtf is wrong with this game.

So now its Live and im cant even login.
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  • lewstelamon01lewstelamon01 Member Posts: 7,415 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    If you happened to mention a gold selling website in ANY form of chat ingame, that's an automatic ban.

    Overbearing? Perhaps. But it is what it is.
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  • studusstudus Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    i got that warning out of the blue but i didnt even mention any websites or hyperlink
    just the casual chatting asking how they actually were running outta gold.
  • sockmunkeysockmunkey Member Posts: 4,622 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Curious question. but why didn't you stop when you got the warning? Or at the very least paused, changed the subject, or even asked what the heck that warning meant?
  • studusstudus Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    yea i did wonder wtf the warning suddenly. Then i went on telling em i suspect the warning was for typing the word g o l d too many times perhaps, even thou the warning was about some gold selling website, then came the ban 2 lines after the warning. Its rather lame...
  • zlainfurryzlainfurry Banned Users Posts: 163 Bounty Hunter
    edited June 2013
    More like Communist China seeping into the US through the practices of their businesses here. Yup. I said it.
  • mconosrepmconosrep Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    So Cryptic now bans people talking about gold to the friends. Nice......
  • prolegapprolegap Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    zlainfurry wrote: »
    More like Communist China seeping into the US through the practices of their businesses here. Yup. I said it.

    Yeah, those Communist Businesses... What's actually happening is that the Chinese Specia Economic Zones have far less regulation on the conduct of companies than the U.S. has. So it's unregulated capitalism seeping into the States. Enjoy.
  • kiralynkiralyn Member Posts: 1,440 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    prolegap wrote: »
    Yeah, those Communist Businesses... What's actually happening is that the Chinese Specia Economic Zones have far less regulation on the conduct of companies than the U.S. has. So it's unregulated capitalism seeping into the States. Enjoy.

    And companies have been happily hyper-regulating their private chats & forums for decades (since, being a privately-owned communication system, are not subject to freedom of speech). I remember, for example, the official Games Workshop (the co. behind Warhammer & Warhammer 40,000) forums - they had really draconian forum mods & rules.... it made for a very civil forum, but they also had a rule that you couldn't discuss GW's business practices. Not their prices, not their profits, not their stock value, nothing.
  • maisaanmaisaan Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 166
    edited June 2013
    Read an article some time ago. It's estimated that minimum 60.000 people around the world is making a living out of games they are not hired to support. That'll be gold sellers, power levellers, tutorial writers, aso.
  • prolegapprolegap Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    maisaan wrote: »
    Read an article some time ago. It's estimated that minimum 60.000 people around the world is making a living out of games they are not hired to support. That'll be gold sellers, power levellers, tutorial writers, aso.

    That sounds like a pretty low number even for a minimum. Though, I woudn't group tutorial writers in the same group with gold sellers. Even if you know how to do a dungeon, for example, you'll still have to jump through all the hoops ingame. And, you'd have to also count games journalists and columnists doing articles on the games, in that case.
  • nornsavantnornsavant Member Posts: 311 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Perhaps we should come up with a new in-game language. How Orwellian would that be? Like a thieves’ cant so we can talk about things without the screws understanding. That was the reason for cants in the old days. Crypticspeak.

    Welcome to another ridiculous chapter in the book of Cryptic blunders. They force everyone into the same channel so that channel scrolls at mach one. Then they send warning that flits right off the screen. This is what happens when you do things with zero thought input. Was there any thinking applied to this at all? Did you consider that you could provide a few more channels like a trade channel and a lgf channel to make system messages in Zone more effective?

    You fail your playerbase with the coding, the quests, the AH, the release, the gateway, the chat system and now you are actively culling your customers? More’s the pity that they seem perfectly fine with it. As if this sort of myopic fire-and-forget banning system is just the way things are supposed to be.

    You see plenty of people spouting the line “Well they have to make money.” But that’s not so. Money is MADE with a printing press. They have to EARN money. They should be EARNING yours. But you should never feel compelled to pay for poor treatment and substandard effort. You should not feel obligated to pay for the opportunity to be banned from the game for talking to your friends. You shouldn’t really accept it for free either.

    Cryptic has made their priority your dollars. But your dollars belong to you. What’s your priority?

    You know what a pretend pony is worth. You know what a respec is worth. As a customer and a player, what are you worth?
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