My account was banned for selling gold?

#1 - Nov. 3, 2012, 9:01 p.m.
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I will come right out and say that I do not sell gold or in-game items for real world money. Which was why my account was apparently banned. I submitted a ticket at 6:56 PM on November 2nd. I still haven’t an answer yet, and still cannot log in. As far as I know my account was not hacked.

The only thing I can think of is while participating in Eternal Battlegrounds I was talking about currency exchange with some people, and I stated that (at the time) from Gems to Gold is was 61 silver per 100 gems, and that you can get 24 gold for $50 if you were to buy it then.

Now if this above is what I did get banned for, then that’s just silly since the currency exchange in the game is completely legal and implemented by the developers of the game. The only thing I can think of for this was a few people reported me for being a gold seller, and I got auto-banned, which from some other post I’ve read from a dev doesn’t happen, but I’m skeptical.

I want to say that I really love the game and the time this happened really bugged me. It was a few minutes before the WvW reset and my guild was going to group up and do things, but now I can’t play this weekend.

If anyone knows anything I’d be grateful if you share that information.

#4 - Nov. 4, 2012, 5:25 a.m.
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Hello everyone.

If you are innocent of the charges then Customer Support will restore your account, rest assured of that. You only need to give them a little bit more of time till they deal with your issue.

We proceed to close this thread now.
Thanks!