Egypt banned from PWI

Olbaze - Sanctuary

SyntherosX - Harshlands wrote: »

Her ingame husband was married to her so long he was litterally able to guess her pass suffice to say pwi checked the logs and didn't help her anyhow if my gears gets suddenly npc'd i'm outty Because if they won't help someone who had r9 why would they help a lesser geared person in the same situation.

So you call it "hacking" when it's just an epic fail at standard password selecting?

Then again weren't you also the guy who posted a video of duoing TM69 on a +12 G15 sin and being all "Look at me I do this and I'm not even R9!"

Xx_BeLLa_xX - Harshlands

SyntherosX - Harshlands wrote: »

Her ingame husband was married to her so long he was litterally able to guess her pass suffice to say pwi checked the logs and didn't help her anyhow if my gears gets suddenly npc'd i'm outty Because if they won't help someone who had r9 why would they help a lesser geared person in the same situation.

99% of people i know who shared account with their precious hubby/wife had problems, i don't know why people have that obsession to absolutely need to share account.

It's a game, a pixel hubby/wife is not real life one, i seriously think wedding is one of the worse thing, i'm sure if they stop sell wedding pack the scam by shared account wife/hubby will go down.

As far as i know share account is not allowed with anyone hubby/wife/friend/GM or w/e who else.

How many people i see log in game say in guild chat ''my head is missing and some other things too'' first question i ask is ''do you share your account?'' answer ''yes but it's a friend i trust him'' and couple hours later ''****** scammed me QQ''.

I have no pity for people who get scam/**** cause they shared their account, but unfortunately more and more people share accounts, i know some people sharing account at 4-5 persons, you pm and it's never the same person on the account.

Massad - Harshlands

Xx_BeLLa_xX - Harshlands wrote: »

99% of people i know who shared account with their precious hubby/wife had problems, i don't know why people have that obsession to absolutely need to share account.

It's a game, a pixel hubby/wife is not real life one, i seriously think wedding is one of the worse thing, i'm sure if they stop sell wedding pack the scam by shared account wife/hubby will go down.

As far as i know share account is not allowed with anyone hubby/wife/friend/GM or w/e who else.

How many people i see log in game say in guild chat ''my head is missing and some other things too'' first question i ask is ''do you share your account?'' answer ''yes but it's a friend i trust him'' and couple hours later ''****** scammed me QQ''.

I have no pity for people who get scam/**** cause they shared their account, but unfortunately more and more people share accounts, i know some people sharing account at 4-5 persons, you pm and it's never the same person on the account.

Bella I agree with you... the amount of stupidity going around from these in game "marriages" is maddening. At times I say hi to a girl and then see the husband pop up out of nowehere and yell repeatedly KOS KOS KOS you talked to her kos lol. (I actually live 20 minutes from her geniusb:chuckle )

Then the the other ones who have to treat there game relationships like they were real... You talked to another girl while you were out of game you a hole...b:surrender (victim of this one)

The ones who have to share everything like lost puppies who can't live for live themselves. These are the ones that would share bank account info then be surprised a month later when those accounts are drained... Well the same way with pwi and sharing married accounts.... Your nirvana casts and r9 stuff will be gone when you come back

Then the one I allow myself to be guilty with Sometimes she just will not let me get awayb:shutup... The holders... The ones who refuse to function on there own and whenever they are in the game have to be held or do the holding.... Even if she happens to be in the same room in rl.... These are the ones you know in facebook who put up couple shots on facebook as the main picture because they can't be a singular person with there own personalities... Its always the 2 together.


All this leads back to the insecurities they have outside of the game and most people refuse to realize that unless you are literally tapping that with a real house and such....



ITS NOT REALb:beatup

zevrex

says perfect world INTERNATIONAL, at least money should be refunded for the people that were banned from egypt since they let it go on for so long.

paralleogram

zevrex wrote: »

says perfect world INTERNATIONAL, at least money should be refunded for the people that were banned from egypt since they let it go on for so long.

lol? what money? this is a free to play game.

zevrex

free to play but some charge like for those who got r9 and got banned and if they had charged already more then once why let it go so far =\. Idk i just feel a bit bad for those ppl since they havent commited any hacks or such

witniss

ChaoticShelly wrote: »

I had an epiphany last night. I remember another MMORPG I was looking forward to play didn't even allow me to create an account, because I was from the same region as Egypt. The company has blocked the Middle East entirely because according to their own words, they detected a significant amount of scams and hacks from the country.

It might be related to that, I'll have to have Frankie look into this when he is back in the office tomorrow, and see what could be the reasoning behind it.

other games are not to be discussed on the forums

chaoticshelly

witniss wrote: »

other games are not to be discussed on the forums

Their names cannot be mentioned.

witniss

ChaoticShelly wrote: »

Their names cannot be mentioned.

yes but i can use psychology and steal your refrigerator and figure out what game it is

LividLemur - Dreamweaver

misleading OP then?

banned from playing game or banned from purchasing zen via mobile phones..? bit of a difference there

VenusArmani - Dreamweaver

LividLemur - Dreamweaver wrote: »

misleading OP then?

banned from playing game or banned from purchasing zen via mobile phones..? bit of a difference there

No. Many, Many Egyptians players have been completely banned from the game. The guy from the Dominican Republic doesn't understand what banned means so he claimed that it was banned too. But it wasn't. He just can't purchase zen using his phone.

BlackCalla - Lothranis

This is the mail on of my Egypt friends got:

-removed-

Seriously... couldn't PWI look for a solution so legitimate users won't be affected BEFORE banning the whole area? This is just plain unfair to all those Egyptians that never did anything wrong.

I want my guild leader back!

Morigana - Lothranis

Thanks to this will/may lose 4 friends....
I do hope they will find a soltion for this.

chaoticshelly

What do you know, I was right. b:surrender

chanman1

LOL and to the people who say the ticket system is good every person i know including me who has ever sent in a ticket got a reply back 1-2 weeks later

_Bloody_Fox_ - Lost City

So we gonna hear from a GM about this or they just gonna edit posts and remain silent?

Boartracker - Raging Tide

Our faction has a couple members from Egypt as well as other mid-eastern countries. Our Egypian members have have been banned & have submitted tickets. It would seem that a 2 year track record of playing & paying as a customer would be a good record for them as customers.

I am also waiting to see what our GMs might have to say about this ban.

b:angry

Sagek - Sanctuary

n1iinick wrote: »

Russia is banned from account creating either

b:sad

boarhunter

Sagek - Sanctuary wrote: »

b:sad

I thought that Russia got it's own provider a while back and new accounts had to be thru them on their servers. Not the same "banned" issue as Egyptian players at this time.

b:bye

frankieraye

Hey guys,

So the deal here is that, as was mentioned before, due to a huge amount of fraudulent activity stemming from them, Egyptian IPs have been blocked from accessing PWE games as well as the websites. This move was made to protect existing player accounts, as we've seen an uptick in **** cases in recent months.

However, we're currently enacting a plan to allow access to Egyptian IP accounts that have been legitimate up to this point. So if you're playing PWI from an Egyptian IP, and you've not been flagged as having participated in any illegal activity, you should re-gain access to the game and website shortly.

These accounts should regain access within a few days, so to these players we apologize for the inconvenience, and our engineers are working as quickly as they can to get everything set up so that you can get back into the game.

One final note -- after this point, IPs from Egypt will no longer be able to create new accounts, so only those legit Egyptian accounts that already exist will be able to log in to the game and site in the future.


Thanks!

Darcwolf - Lost City

paralleogram wrote: »

lol? what money? this is a free to play game.

Apparently you've never played this game before if you some how missed the cash shop and the thousands people spend on it.

DeffyNature - Archosaur

frankieraye wrote: »

Hey guys,

So the deal here is that, as was mentioned before, due to a huge amount of fraudulent activity stemming from them, Egyptian IPs have been blocked from accessing PWE games as well as the websites. This move was made to protect existing player accounts, as we've seen an uptick in **** cases in recent months.

However, we're currently enacting a plan to allow access to Egyptian IP accounts that have been legitimate up to this point. So if you're playing PWI from an Egyptian IP, and you've not been flagged as having participated in any illegal activity, you should re-gain access to the game and website shortly.

These accounts should regain access within a few days, so to these players we apologize for the inconvenience, and our engineers are working as quickly as they can to get everything set up so that you can get back into the game.

One final note -- after this point, IPs from Egypt will longer be able to create new accounts, so only those legit Egyptian accounts that already exist will be able to log in to the game and site in the future.


Thanks!

Good to know, thank you !

c2h

frankieraye wrote: »

One final note -- after this point, IPs from Egypt will no longer be able to create new accounts, so only those legit Egyptian accounts that already exist will be able to log in to the game and site in the future.


Thanks!

Fixed b:question

b:tired

Arobras - Dreamweaver

frankieraye wrote: »

One final note -- after this point, IPs from Egypt will longer be able to create new accounts, so only those legit Egyptian accounts that already exist will be able to log in to the game and site in the future.

So, just to clarify, does that mean if these people want a 2nd,3rd,4th account, etc too bad?

VenusArmani - Dreamweaver

frankieraye wrote: »

Hey guys,

So the deal here is that, as was mentioned before, due to a huge amount of fraudulent activity stemming from them, Egyptian IPs have been blocked from accessing PWE games as well as the websites. This move was made to protect existing player accounts, as we've seen an uptick in **** cases in recent months.

However, we're currently enacting a plan to allow access to Egyptian IP accounts that have been legitimate up to this point. So if you're playing PWI from an Egyptian IP, and you've not been flagged as having participated in any illegal activity, you should re-gain access to the game and website shortly.

These accounts should regain access within a few days, so to these players we apologize for the inconvenience, and our engineers are working as quickly as they can to get everything set up so that you can get back into the game.

One final note -- after this point, IPs from Egypt will longer be able to create new accounts, so only those legit Egyptian accounts that already exist will be able to log in to the game and site in the future.


Thanks!

Make sure you update this list. So people understand what's going on.

Why do I get a "Disabled Region" message when registering for an account?


These countries are banned regions for Perfect World Entertainment:

China

Hong Kong

Macau

South Korea

Taiwan

Vietnam

Russia

Unfortunately, we are unable to allow new registrations from these regions.

We are obligated to block regions which have their own localization of certain games. Some regions are also blocked for administrative reasons. The same regions are blocked for all of our games.

karmelia

frankieraye wrote: »

our engineers are working as quickly as they can to get everything set up so that you can get back into the game.

If your engineers are as good at fixing this IP thing as they are for fixing the bug with Facebook Connect and the PvP rankings, I wish good luck to those Egyptian players to be able to log back before the beginning of 2014.

So the deal here is that, as was mentioned before, due to a huge amount of fraudulent activity stemming from them, Egyptian IPs have been blocked from accessing PWE games as well as the websites

Would be amusing to know how many fraudulent activities comes from US IP addresses. When is PWI going to ban all US IP from playing their games? b:laugh

frankieraye

Arobras - Dreamweaver wrote: »

So, just to clarify, does that mean if these people want a 2nd,3rd,4th account, etc too bad?

That is correct-- from this point on, any account creation from an Egyptian IP is disabled, even if the person trying to do it is one of the folks whose main account has been allowed to continue logging in from Egypt.

paralleogram

Darcwolf - Lost City wrote: »

Apparently you've never played this game before if you some how missed the cash shop and the thousands people spend on it.

so all egyptian players Cash shop? do you have proof of this?


as with any business, termination of service does not mean you get a refund. i believe somewhere in their tos it's sprinkled that they can terminate any time

urqua

frankieraye wrote: »

Hey guys,

So the deal here is that, as was mentioned before, due to a huge amount of fraudulent activity stemming from them, Egyptian IPs have been blocked from accessing PWE games as well as the websites. This move was made to protect existing player accounts, as we've seen an uptick in **** cases in recent months.

However, we're currently enacting a plan to allow access to Egyptian IP accounts that have been legitimate up to this point. So if you're playing PWI from an Egyptian IP, and you've not been flagged as having participated in any illegal activity, you should re-gain access to the game and website shortly.

These accounts should regain access within a few days, so to these players we apologize for the inconvenience, and our engineers are working as quickly as they can to get everything set up so that you can get back into the game.

One final note -- after this point, IPs from Egypt will no longer be able to create new accounts, so only those legit Egyptian accounts that already exist will be able to log in to the game and site in the future.


Thanks!

This sort of a fix reminds me of how seekers now cannot Quid Pro Quo a HP debuff, which was the way the trick of HP debuffing a TW crystal was 'fixed'..instead of just making the TW crystal immune to being HP debuffed and allowing seeker the original options that the QPQ skill gave them in PVP/PVE rather than gimping them to fix a seperate issue.

Banning legitimate players because others are doing something wrong is a terrible solution..hey Frankie, we are all on planet Earth, why not block all IP's from planet earth and you will then have zero scamming going on. b:chuckle

Really, i dont blame you, and thankyou for at least giving an update on this subject as i miss my egyptian friends ingame, but someone in PWE needs to do a college class in logic ijs.

TevesRagen - Lost City

urqua wrote: »

someone in PWE needs to do a college class in logic ijs.

This made me lol. b:laugh