I just got a ban for item exploiting...which is bull shit because I do not dupe items or even trade for dupable items almost ever...and certainly not recently.

Only thing I can think of (and which makes sense based upon Turbine's incompetence) is that Turbine decided that stacks of items on the ASAH should be investigated and their investigation was the most moronic one ever....log onto toon check number of items...

Problem with that of course is that I regularly buy stacks when I see them for a good deal and the resell them later.

Recently I dropped 4K shards on items and am in the process of reselling them.  So I have tons of inventory still on my account.

I expect Turbine to ignore an official appeal I filed (because incompetence...), ban my forum account, and fuck up my inventory while they are at it.

That many shards worth of product is just not something I will swallow and keep playing afterwards.  So looks like Turbine finally will make me quit the game for good and any future Turbine products while they are at it.

Here is a copy of my post on the official forums.

Account Ban W/O item duping...



Some background...

I buy large amounts of goods from the ASAH when I see deals.

I also resell those goods on the ASAH.

By large amounts I means I spent literally over 4000 shards recently on items.

I have since made back about 3500 shards.

So lots of stuff.

I received an email from Turbine without being contacted ingame that my account had a ban for 14 days for 'an item exploit'...with NO OTHER DETAILS GIVEN which is also unacceptable.

Clearly Turbine is not even doing more then looking at stack sizes on peoples accounts now. That is unacceptable behavior.

I know I know, Turbine does not like being called out on their BS and will shut the thread.

The only way to get Turbine to fix their own bad behavior is to raise a public voice about it.

So here it is. Long time player who raised a huge outcry about the shroud exploiting back in the day is saying...watch out because Turbine is now banning people for having goods acquired on the ASAH!

This is not some random 10 post guy who no ones knows, but someone who most long time forumites know.

Hopefully some of the forumites will see this before it gets deep sixed and pass along the news that Turbine is acting in Mayban fashion again and my likely forum ban serves some purpose.

Later guys.

Very doubtful I will get my account back without untouched which will mean game over for me.

Get busy exploiting or get busy Dying.....





Yeah! I just Shawshanked your ass!

Sorry didn't see you had posted here yet.  Added to Blackheartx/Overvann's thread in the drama initiative section since the same thing basically happened to him.

Good luck, and the wife read your post and went "Oh shit."

Would be interesting to see how many lfms would be up for the new content if people didn't dupe their shit to sell them on the ASAH, people were so retarded the first days of the update they would buy anything for any price, it was crazy. I remember putting up the first Meteoric Star Ruby in the server on the ASAH and selling it for 5k astral shards, the next day someone bought it, second time I put it up for 3.5k and I sold it again. Duped u21 stuff is probably 90% of today's ddo market.. if they started banning anyone who has at least 1 duped item, they might as well just shutdown the game because ddo population would be 0.

madman wrote on May 26^th, 2014 at 5:24pm:


No didn't see his thread before now.  Have not been as upto date on the forum threads as I used to be.

Thanks for the extra data point.

Main forum thread is killed.

Not a shocker there, but faster then I would have expected on a holiday weekend.

Wow, munk...just wow.  How could you still play this game after being hosed over that hard?

You raise a stink on the main forums at least?

Cyr wrote on May 26^th, 2014 at 5:57pm:


I think Cord has been checking stuff out all weekend since there have be a few threads closed by him.

Vann/BlackHeartx raised a stink on the forums and still got hosed.

madman wrote on May 26^th, 2014 at 6:01pm:



Well its not like anyone would want the fat fucker at their bbq is it?

Munkenmo wrote on May 26^th, 2014 at 6:07pm:


Check...

Did they send you just as vague of a nonsense form letter as they sent me when you were banned?

I can not believe that they think that is acceptable.  When you say someone has broken a rule you need to actually say the particulars and not a vague term like 'item exploit'.

date/particulars are required.  Otherwise, there is no way to form a proper response beyond what I did which was guess at how they could have incompetently arrived at the false conclusion that I was exploiting.

Cyr wrote on May 26^th, 2014 at 6:26pm:


I'm sending you a PM.

Distributed wrote on May 26^th, 2014 at 6:55pm:


Worst part is that a simple check of tier 3 weapons and phlogs on my account would have made it painfully obvious that I was not duping

SwashbucklerHater wrote on May 26^th, 2014 at 7:25pm:


Sure they are.  Log onto account.  Go to bank.  Open bank.  Look for items.  Check inventory.  Check mail.  Check buyback tab.

Done.

Sure a more competent company could just run a database search, but...Turbine.