Both my forum account and game account have been banned as of this morning, both listed as "never to be lifted".

So thanks a lot Jerry, and Geoff? thanks for passing on whatever you passed on to him and Turbine so they could axe me first thing today. 

I should be really angry, but surprisingly I'm almost relieved. I'm going to take the time and money I was willing to give the game to make it better and spend it somewhere that it will be appreciated.

I rest easy knowing I did my best and didn't give up to easily, I will also take comfort knowing that while Jerry Snook won't catch any flack for this ham-fisted action you are now exposed as the lackey you are Geoff Hannah. I do hope you are proud of yourself.

Meanwhile Jerry has blocked me successfully, there is no way I can expose him without resorting to whole distasteful Sock nonsense, and I refuse to waste any more time that way or anyway on a game who's community is being "managed" to a slow death. 

So that's it for me, the fact that a player who was willing to really invest monetarily and personally in a 9 year old game  has been reduced to signing off from  here, The Vault? well it says a lot.

To those of you sticking with the game, best of luck, it is a amazing system in so many ways (especially the core and customize ability) , I am sorry if I didn't have a chance to quest with more you, and that I won't in the future.

I would ask that if you meet some Nooby's give them what help and encouragement you can, but maybe don't tell/show them how to exploit unless they ask, it makes the new "everything is fantastic" period last longer.

So now I'm off, I guess I'm glad it's over, I'm glad I will be getting a chance to go play other newer games with a clear conscious knowing I tried my best.

Also, I'm relieved that I don't have to try to be careful with what I will post and I won't have to keep attempting and failing to follow Crane-style anymore.

And with that in mind: Jerry, Severlin, Tolero, Geoff, Uurlock, paleus, blackheartox, Bartharok, Chai, Fran, Failedlegend, Jetrule,Quahlor, Leslie W., and all the rest of you toadies and liars?

You are all a bunch of big fish in a tiny little pond killing the game and chasing off new players to service your egos, so free to go fuck yourselves.  (for the record I did like the tiny pond).

Are you kidding? What a piece of ridiculous crap Turbine is.

Confirmed.

Quick search shows all his renown is gone, forums won't let you send PM's or friend requests, and he has no listed last activity date or time even though it shows his last post at 6:30am today.

And hey, no offense meant by the checking Hammer, we just have a history of people crying wolf about bans and then backpedaling.... it's a vault thing.

Seeya Hammertime, fly now, fly like a Crane you silly bastard fly!

I would guess that Fat Jerry and Sev_Pay don't like having their dirty laundry aired on what are supposed to be "pet" 3rd party sites like G.H.'s even if their minions on those sites try to rinse it for them. Even though Geoff kept deleting Hammer's comment the ongoing posts by him made it obvious how he was trying to hide the hatchet-job he did on it, almost as damaging as Hammer's original post.

Clearly someone (cough, cough.. geoff! cough) dropped a dime on Hammertop, or I don't know... maybe Jerry faps every morning to the hero-worship Geoff spews on that site and saw it himself.

Well said HarHar (yikes, that stung to say) that's a really decent offer to make and I hope you take him up on it Hammertop.

Even though I shouldn't be, I am so surprised,  it's just despicable and heavy-handed, just really fucking despicable for this to happen.

Here is what I believe may be the smoking gun:
https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/462043-DDOGamer-Railing-Against-the-Fo...

So not only did the cunt Geoff rewrite what Hammer wrote, he posted a fucking link to it on the mother boards overnight! which is why he wouldn't pull the article when Hammer saw and asked for it to be pulled. The fucker really was using Hammer to drive traffic to his poxy little site. Hammer went to the trouble to go to a non-Turbine site to speak his mind and got buttfucked by Fat Jerry's biggest fan.  Nice work Geoff, are you getting lot's of hits? oh no can't back down can you Geoff? what's that? Hammer complaining? just block him and get him banned right?

You fucking cunt Geoff.

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I can't believe they banned you in game for this. Are you sure this is what really happened,as I've never heard of the likes.

Angry wrote on Jun 24^th, 2015 at 12:47pm:

You've also never seen the "Community Manager" try to ingratiate himself so much with certain members of the community just to alienate others will stupid bullshit such as this.

Sorry to hear it Hammer. Wish I could say I'm surprised - but I am sorry to hear.

Fuck it...Ban him here too and give him his Green Jacket.

A game ban?  I can't even.

Wow checked out a few of his posts and really don't understand what merited a full ban. Really sad when people speak their minds and get punished for it if not politically correct or represent another viewpoint not shared by the current powers that be.

Removing his voice does not get rid of the issues he was bringing up. I don't agree with everything said but everyone is entitled to their point of view without being at risk of losing their account. The idea of someone getting punted from the game over something said in a forum is uncalled for

Wipe wrote on Jun 24^th, 2015 at 1:12pm:
Meh.
Now that other people post it for me - I haven't posted it in 9+ months. For me it's retired, but I got the herd-mind to click in, so job done.

Wow, ridiculous.