Quest 'temporarily removed' without reason given?

kelplankton · May 2013

Hi. So, I'm really confused. I got an in-game mail this morning telling me that my Foundry quest(NW-DG3D3XQH5, "Yes, a Kobold Dungeon Master") was 'temporarily removed' for some sort of violation of the game's TOS.

The letter, however, didn't say what this TOS violation was, or give any other details on why this happened. I'll happily fix any problems my quest has- it's not a farm or anything. It's a very story-driven and very silly questline. I'm pretty sure there were no IP violations, hateful speech, any of that kind of thing involved. I tried to keep it as family-friendly as possible overall since I was hoping a wide range of players could enjoy it.

Since I had reached the front page of the 'best quests' list, I'd been seeing a pretty significant surge in number of plays, and being removed from there has kind of killed most of the momentum this quest had.

Is there anything I can do? I contacted support asking for more information, but I'm hoping someone on the boards here might have played it and could have some sort of insight into what I did wrong.

kamaliicious · May 2013

Another quest was removed for unspecified reasons. The author made a thread and a moderator stepped in and locked the thread: You are not allowed to ask why your quest was removed, per what the moderator said.

Here's the moderator's specific words:
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?204891-Blood-and-sand-Unchained-banned-from-foundry&p=2778052&viewfull=1#post2778052

tilt42 · May 2013

Both my quests have been temporarily banned for no reason too, but they were always there when I checked. I suspect this has to do with the new report system when you leave a quest. Griefers report your quest, and once you get enough of these reports, your quest is temp-banned. It's a ridiculous system that ensures that EVERYONE in the top of the lists will be banned multiple times per week. I have no idea what Cryptic was thinking when they implemented this.

kelplankton · May 2013

kamaliicious wrote: »

Another quest was removed for unspecified reasons. The author made a thread and a moderator stepped in and locked the thread: You are not allowed to ask why your quest was removed, per what the moderator said.

Here's the moderator's specific words:
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?204891-Blood-and-sand-Unchained-banned-from-foundry&p=2778052&viewfull=1#post2778052

Thanks for the link. In that case, it was due to some IP violations though since he was using lots of Conan terminology or something, right? I didn't do anything like that. And there was no way to turn my thing into some sort of EXP grindfest either, which looks like it was happening there.

Sorry for making the topic, I guess. Hopefully support will get in touch with me soon. I was going to get rolling on a second quest today and start turning this into a campaign.

kamaliicious · May 2013

kelplankton wrote: »

Sorry for making the topic, I guess. Hopefully support will get in touch with me soon. I was going to get rolling on a second quest today and start turning this into a campaign.

Don't worry, I was simply explaining. It's not as if this is something that is more than a very recent issue. Worst that happens is they lock this thread. Bad policy, but it is what it is.

kelplankton · May 2013

Just wanted to give people a heads up- I'm hearing from multiple places that there's a few groups of people abusing the Foundry's report mechanic(take quest, quit, report for violations immediately) to force as many high-profile Foundry quests to get removed as possible. I don't know why they'd do this other than just straight up trolling, but yeah I imagine that's what happened to me, and now it's happened to the Blood and Sand guy too- and a number of others.

zebular · May 2013

Terms of Service, pay special note to:

Terms of Service wrote:

USER CONTENT
You agree not to post, upload to, transmit, distribute, store, create or otherwise publish through the Site any of the following:
(a) User Content that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, suggestive, harassing, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory, fraudulent or otherwise objectionable;

(b) User Content that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party, or that would otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national or international law,

(c) User Content that may infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual or proprietary right of any party. By posting any User Content, you represent and warrant that you have the lawful right to distribute and reproduce such User Content

(d) User Content that impersonates any person or entity or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity;

(e) Unsolicited promotions, political campaigning, advertising or solicitations;

(f) Private information of any third party, including, without limitation, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers and credit card numbers;

(g) Viruses, corrupted data or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files; and

(h) User Content that violates the Rules of Conduct or that, in the sole judgment of PWE, is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Interactive Areas or the Site, or which may expose PWE or its users to any harm or liability of any type.

We cannot allow the discussion of forum or game bans or disciplinary actions.

Rest assured, if players are abusing the report for violation option, your missions will be restored and the offenders taken care of. Just keep communicating with Support.

Quest 'temporarily removed' without reason given?

Comments