Fare thee well! - Blue Tracker

#1 - March 15, 2011, 1:34 a.m.

Well, I never thought I’d quit this game… for THIS reason.

I’ve been playing since the day the game came out… I remember my first toon; a hunter, naturally. I’ve been in about four different raiding guilds, a couple of them for extended time, and a couple of them for a relatively short amount of time. Two of which were five/six day raiding guilds.

But anyway, that’s me. The woman who would later become my wife started playing because of me about four years ago. She took her authenticator off recently (for spring break) because she didn’t want to take it home with her from our apartment next to the university we study at. Namely, because she usually loses it when we travel. She had her account restored almost immediately (Excellent blizzard response time). The next day, I gave her the Tsunami deck I had been furiously trying to get made before the darkmoon faire departed from Goldshire. I gave it to her. We rejoiced. She didn’t log in again for two days (Raid day), and she… was banned. Apparently, she “bought gold,” which I know isn’t true. But seeing as there’s nothing I can do to prove otherwise other than just say, “Hey, she’s my fiancé, she didn’t buy gold, you can tell by her only having a 3 digit gold numer,” which is worthless.

So I’m qutting… not to go play Rift or any other fail wow ripoff, but to simply leave the MMO business forever. I’m sorry it had to end this way Blizzard… I always enjoyed playing WoW with you. Even when you put spirit on my rogue gear… or when Vashj was a new fight that I thought was impossible… when I was bored in WotLK, and we still managed to have a great time. There were good times, especially in Cataclysm, and I’m sorry that I’ll never get to enjoy all the new content you’ll be putting out in the upcoming months.

Thanks for the good times, I’m sorry for all the bad times, and I’ll see you… maybe when Diablo 3 comes out. :(

Vrakthris

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#21 - March 15, 2011, 9:21 p.m.

03/14/2011 6:34 PMPosted by Poisonreborn
. But seeing as there’s nothing I can do to prove otherwise other than just say, “Hey, she’s my fiancé, she didn’t buy gold, you can tell by her only having a 3 digit gold numer,” which is worthless.

No, there is nothing that you can do, except to encourage your fiancé to contact Account Administration and dispute the closure.

03/14/2011 7:04 PMPosted by Poisonreborn
We did. We basically got an email back saying that she "disbalanced the economy using real-life currency," and that it does not matter if it was her, or the hacker.

Actually, the e-mail covering the closure was not in response to anything that was sent in. There was only one notification of the closure and the reason for it sent, no review e-mail was sent, no dispute was refused.

03/14/2011 7:31 PMPosted by Poisonreborn
But either way, we don't have the means to purchase another copy of WoW for her, and I have no interest in going back to raiding without her sitting next to me.

While I applaud the attitude you have towards this, Poisonreborn, it appears there has been a good deal of misunderstanding on what has happened thus far.

Over the last 5 days there have been a total of 4 e-mails sent. One, would be a notification that someone on the account was advertising/spamming. The second was the Account Recovery information that is usually the result of reporting a compromise. The third, was the closure notification.

Now the last one was fairly recent, it looks like it was sent today and it was the result of an e-mail sent in disputing the closure. I believe your fiancé may want to check her registered e-mail.

In the future I recommend not detaching the Authenticator. Those who compromise accounts are always trying to access them, they my fail while the Authenticator is attached but that doesn't mean they won't try again.

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