SE at it again...
Sorry another update...
Seems like SE is still trigger happy with their ban stick...
From Allakhazam poster GummybearOdin:
Hiya guys, So I have 3 accounts 2 I dual box on and 1 is a mule of 16 chars. I don't garden on it, just store pop items and drops that haven't been distributed yet, and the main portion of my gil for myself, gf, and the lsbank.
Give you guys some history on what happened first...
About 2-3 weeks ago I lost my CC at a bookstore. I decided to get it replaced through my CC company. About 1 week later it arrived with a completely new number. I've been struggling to get all my online accounts updated. Around July 2nd I went to logon ffxi and found that my content ids were dead of course due to the CC number changed. So I logged on Gummybear account and put in my Citi-Mastercard and reactivated my content id. I then proceed to activate my 2nd account with the same CC# and it had some UCS-xxxxxx error and so I retyped it and tried again and again....
Couldn't get it to work so I took my gf's CC and popped the information in and bam it takes it and I reactivate my content ID...
I figure there has to be some sort of time delay before you can use the same CC# on another account so I decide to wait 1 day to activate my "Gummynet" account which is the ls mule account. So on the next day I use my Citi-Mastercard to activate "Gummynet" and it went through on first try. No problems.
So my 3 accounts are fine. I was at anime-expo working that weekend so didn't really get to play. The week before I did log on "Gummynet" to get Byakko trigger items that we had store across the characters to get some Haidates for ls members. The drop was awesome we had 3/4 Haidates that weekend and 4 Behemoth Hides and Divine Logs. So I had a ton of stuff to sell during the week, I won a bunch of Rank 4's on my mules and so I started to sell like 7-8 Behemoth Hides to populate the bank for Dynamis runs.
I didn't really log into play again until last week Friday July 10, 2009 when I realized it was LM-17 while we were trying to log in to grab gear to do a quick 12 man Divine Might run.
I waited to Monday July 13, 2009 to make the report, and I told the gentleman on the phone that I was LM-17'ed and that it was possible my whole CC situation caused it. He said "no sir you were banned for RMT activity." Uh WHAT?!!! "Only thing I can do is file a ban complaint for you and they will review your account." So I filed a ban complaint with the description: "This account is the ls treasury and a mule we use for crafting and muling gear." I swear on my own life that I haven't rmt'ed for sh*t EVER... I only logon the mule to grab stuff and trigger items for small events. The guy told me there was nothing he could do but file the complaint and they will call or e-mail me with the decision...
My 16 mules are consisted of this: First 4 mules are range of gear from 1-30, 31-45, 46-65, 66-75. 1 Mule for quest items, and random trigger items like ugg pendant runs, tatami shield type, 1 mule for fishing gear, poles, signed poles, random types of fish, 1 mule for wood crafting, 2 mules belong to my gf's junk, 1 mule lsbank/jueno ah slave for the shell, 1 mule for all goods for abjurations, einherjar, salvage, 3 1-for each city, food mule. Basically I'm trying to say NO I DONT GARDEN... NO THIS CHAR DOESNT NPC...
I'm so distraught over this... I've spent countless hours with STF and GMs to help clean the server up of RMT farmers, making comprehensive reports. TO BE CALLED A RMT...
Then the SEI Melanie R, is a OMFG... I was so pissed off after talking to her, I've called friends, and people in marketing inside SE to report this bs to them directly. I've come to the conclusion JP SE handles all decisions...
Here's the part I don't understand, how is it legal that you ban people without substantial proof of even anything remotely like RMT??? For those for you that say I'm lying, you can use me as an example of someone thats NEVER F'ing RMT EVER and got banned unjustly. I feel so bad for all of the people I keep reading about, that got caught up in this... I've had my entire linkshell begin writing e-mails to the STF about this account...
Our entire salvage, limbus, dynamis currency toward relic, gil is all on this account... If they would even TAKE A LOOK at this account they will notice the dynamis currency NEVER moves... The Ancient Beastcoins go straight to rare/ex items from Sagheera for people of the shell, that the gil supply barely moves, and when it does it goes toward purchases of gear toward ls members that STILL have it for the last 6 years.... Sorry for the rant... Still LM-17'ed for RMT Activity and reported it on Monday July 13, 2009. Huge thank you to those behind all of us...
Why oh why did I leave my CC there...
My belief of what happened:
Problems with CC# triggers RMT-PWNER 1.337 <--- lamest name ever.
After you surface on RMT-PNWER's radar, Gilded Tomb kicks in and scans your account for a few criteria. Gil on multiple chars? Too much gil on a single char?
This is still pure bs because, you should at least verify it... Don't be telling me they personally verify god knows how many accounts that were all suddenly banned these last 2-3 weeks. Seriously JP mentality, ban first, prove your innocence later...
Anyways...
2nd post
My stomach hurts, even more I forgot to mention another long time friend of mine Thundaga also plays in a shell called Shield of Heaven, they are seriously an awesome group of friends playing together. I really envy them... They have a central mule account in which they share their gil to help each other make purchases, and did gardening which yield a ridiculously small amount of gil each week split across 6 players +.
I seriously don't understand this anymore, FFXI is the only game EVER to experience extreme deflation after its introductory period but due to DESTROYING legit player's gil supplies... They didn't go after the RMTs at the end (or maybe they did to some degree) but they are systematically destroying the legit playerbase...
The linkshell I'm in has the same player base for the last 6 years... The people in my linkshell, the players around me, the people on this forum for example making the awesome posts, and the community that this has together built is what kept me in this game...
If SE seriously thinks their game is some magnificent thing, they need to think again. The people this game drew together is why we are all still playing.
Seriously the security token... "We need you to fax us your driver's license, and credit card to prove its you." HELLO SE ITS MY NAME ON THE ACCOUNT, MY NAME ON THE PAYMENT INFO, AND ITS GOT SECURITY TOKEN REGISTERED TO MY NAME... Seriously don't blame the POL Information center, blame the morons that think they have it all figured out that is so above us they have no phone number or e-mail was can use to OMGWTF "communicate" with them and give them feedback.
I remember the patch that destroyed Anarchy Online... My guild of real life friends all quit at around level 80 of 200 max back then on that weekend because Funcom decided to make a patch that made all the mobs invincible to melee but not magic and left it like that for the entire weekend live... This may actually be the moment the game will begin to seriously die... FF14 will be a joke... NO THANX. (Although I hope those that do play are treated better)
Now this latest joke, 3 mini-expansions for $10 each... add them up and you got $30!!! the price of the last 4 expansions!!! So what is SE pulling this time? Oh look we want $30 again from each player to "buy their content" but not release any new jobs... Its just too much work, and most of the team is working on FF14 anyways.
End Rant... My best of hopes for all of you...
So just rethink if you gonna get into XI or XIV that's coming out.
Also sorry for the wall-o-text. ; ;
