Banning Bonanza : Plz Gaile Comment = NO QQ PLS

So this is only a constructive criticism about the recent banning franzy from anet. It's only a proposition to get a little more work then to accept tickets and banning withouth any further inquiries. All for the comunity and respect for the good players there are still around.

First of all NO FLAMING, NO QQ, WHINING ETC.....this is only an observation, nothing else. Nice comments only are welcomed.

So here the thing, why for so long periods of time no one get banned then boom, out of the blue, tons of players get banned for offensive names and weird trading sessions.

I mean, it's completly acceptable to ban some names that where mentioned here but 2 players I know where wrongly banned for the following and it would be nice from Anet to make further investigations on some cases :

First case : A friend and his guildie traded 600k from his accont to the other so he does not have to buy ectos where the market is fishy. * never in the past they came and go from 4.9 to 5.5 stable and not changing at all from those numbers.

First thing he know, both are banned. Question to ask ? Would is be possible that 2 trustable friend do that especialy from the Guild Hall with same guild tag after the name ? I would think that if you sell Gold or buy it you dont invite the Farmer to your Hall.

Second case : An alliance Leader has this name ( yes he agreed to let me post it here ) " Faq Quebec " Which is a french Canadian province. Clearly, some one could had though " Ho this guys hate that province and is trying to say the F... word about it "

Well, the guilde name is Frere D'Armes du Quebec : FAQ, they don't accept any other players then French Canadians from that Province and are realy into that French thing and a but stuborn about it if you ask me.

He did got banned and had to change it.

His Character is verry well known around with 28 titles already among them wisdom.

So again, Pls, this is not the place to whine about how unfair this ban season has been, no. It's only to propose to the great Company Anet is, to make sure the bans are legit and deserved.

After all, an angry customer is not what any buisness need.

For evrything Anet, thanks of pulling a monthly free game that is after all the second most successfull game today and most of all, unique to his genre.

P.S. Pls don't flame if I make typos, I am french Canadian and kind of bad in english.

Boby Gore

This is inappropriate name, and name filter evasion.

Of course it is. Unfortunately, pronounced in English, which is the dominant language in GW, it becomes an insult.

This is what gold farmers do. They have guilds too.

This might be an error, but large money transactions may raise an eyebrow.

That would be Canadian, for the same reason why speaking in English doesn't make you British.

All of the things you mentioned seemed like plausible reasons for Anet to take action since they didn't know the extenuating circumstances you mentioned. Did your friends contact support and try to repeal these changes?

anet's policies have always been ban first, consider lifting later. Gaile has been the middle person in these many times, and I know she's aware of the generally intolerant and uninformed way that they go about doing this things. A rather peculiar aspect of this is that anet uses bots (ok filters.....but still automated scripts) to auto-ban, without actual real-person observations or input.

Would be nice to see Gaile address the issue of this ongoing trend, and see her either say they need to change the way they blindly ban people, or admit that their system is ban first, consider appeals later (guilty until proven innocent). That response would basically reveal their opinions of the fanbase: money already received, or future customers?

If FAQ is acceptable as a guild tag it should be allowed as a name.

As for the gold trade, its hard to prove one way or another when that much gold changes hands with no collateral trade.


While I would like to think Anet would back track to see where the gold came from if its been in your storage for 6months then they cant go back and see if the gold is legit.

I think that any banning activity, Anet should start giving out warnings, and you should have 24 hours to respond giving plausible reasons for whatever it is you have done. Getting banned for Faq Quebec is just ridiculous, and the person who defended Anet's actions on this is equally as stupid. Everytime you go to an FAQ on a website (different meaning, but same spelling) do you assume they are swearing at you? No, I don't think so...

I'm a German Australian and have a sister who played a game a while back online in which she created the character Schweinchen Dick. She and I didn't even think twice about making that name, since it's the name of Porky Pig in German, and we'd been watching the cartoons on that day, but she got banned from that game for a name being inappropriate.

If this is going to be an international game, which it IS, then they need to be respectful of other people's languages. Yes is may offend the prudish American conservative's on the servers, but you know what, they're not the only people in the world, nor even the only people in the GW world.

Think about it: [FAQ] Normal, seen it as guild tags before. Now try: Faq Quebec. Naturally, It sounds wrong.

But used in a certain context? No.

Edit: Damn Brianna you beat me too it

You must be ESL too. FAQ is the abbreviation of "Frequently Asked Questions" in "American English." No other known meanings. The word you are thinking of ends with a G, not a Q. Areanet either mistook the Q for a G, or they are realllllllllly stretching for reasons to ban. And its not the best time to start kicking your player base in the shins.

And this is the same reason why they shouldn't have banned: they don't know the whole damn story. They need to get their shit together and stop banning people without knowing all of the facts.

/agree

I lead a medium size alliance, and have same concern. Iam aware of around 6suspentions in the last week with in our alliance alone.

Only 1 was legit, he bought gold from a website, ok I agree.

3 others were debateable, suspened for names they used. Our alliance is pretty strict on profanity and racist remarks and such, but the names they used while maybe pushing it a little, were not that big of a deal.

The remaining 3 were totally WRONG! Suspened after transfering gold from their own account to their own second account. Many of our group have played since orginal beta, and have money we move around. Not only to our own accounts, but many real life firends has they begin playing GW, not unusal for us to give them a 100k.

Lastly, last week I was in AB. Three of us from our guild, and 1 pug. Upon entering battle I moved forward to center waiting for count down til gates openned. Pug began ranting he was gonna report me for leetching. I was lagging on my screen I was with them, when fight began, I stopped lagging and realized I wasn't with them.

I wasn't suspened, but I'm not interested in playing with PUGZ any more, I have zero interested in being threated or someone trying to intimidate me.

In conclusion, when report system was fist introduced, I thought it was a good thing, but after a few weeks now, I believe it needs to be removed or seriously overhauled.

OMFGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG I JUST UNBANNED!!!! OMFG, 2 DAYS!!TY,TYVM!
Hello,

Thank you for contact Guild Wars Support. After reviewing the issue, it appears that your account was blocked in error. Your account is now released and you should be able to log in to Guild Wars. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Take care,
GM Phields
The Guild Wars Support Team

Think about it: 1) This is the internet, ''Sounds'' can make out words, Faq > Fack? > F*ck. I'm using ''You're all alone!".

Or if you speak in a welsh accent it sounds exactly like ...

Edit: Damn you again Brianna <_< your too fast

Now, if you are wrongfully banned, can you use the two days as a "ban credit," if you were banned later, like for an "inappropriate" name? That would be nice.
Text doesn't have an accent. (unless you pop up character map)
"Wax the car" can "sound" dirty too, but I'm sure it wouldn't get you banned. Again, they are stretching for these bans, for reasons unknown.

A common pronunciation of FAQ is not ef ey que, but as fahk. In other words: "perform sexual intercourse with quebec".

Again, welcome to the Internet.

Fixed it for you.

KANE

Well "Faq Quebec", as a name, is open to interpretation. I only wish that there was a warning before the ban (which I think is a highly plausible move). I don't see them going around banning people for names without a warning of some sort, in a way, that would make for more paper work in the long run.

If your friend did get a warning, then I guess changing the name would be the best thing to do. You don't want to piss off the people that made the game

so fahk means sexual intercourse with quebec? you see we learn alot of things here at Guru, like how you can have sex with a province. neat stuff!

They don't perma ban they just give you a slap on the wrist and tell you to change the name.