arena.net drops the hammer on breaches of their guildwars eula

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#1 aura_enchanted
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guildwars accounts are under a bigger crackdown than anything the xbox360 ever gave us.. a new modified eula in a recent update (that most probably didnt read) contains a neat little new clause. (rough explanation)if an account if found guilty of bots, hacks, exploits, etc and etc. your account will be TERMINATED PERMANENTLY with no chance for recovery.

today they announced they have within the past 24 hours killed off nearly 4000 accounts worth 1000's of gameplay hours each and killed off whole guilds in the process and in some extreme cases cd-keys have been outright revoked due to excessive breaches.

in order to fully address this dramatic action arena.net has made a formal statement by their director for your viewing pleasure. they promise that this will not be the end of it and have promised that by the end of it all NO account will go unscrutinized.

http://www.arena.net/blog/design-director-james-phinney-on-the-recent-account-bans#more-2185

oh and to someone with an account matching this description:

2,469 hours, 38 titles, 913 plat, 268 ecto, Eternal Legendary Vanquisher monument, Mini Gwen, Chaos Gloves, Mallyx's Strife, The Holy Avenger, etc., etc.

It's all gone now. Forever.

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#2 scotty992
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I dont know how to respond other than "lolz"
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#3 BeyondPain
Member since 2008 • 762 Posts
Good on them. Companies gotta enforce their own rules.
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#4 dinuattila
Member since 2005 • 1355 Posts

Shift + Delete + Enter on accounts eh? That is cold hearted... really cold hearted but serves them right. Don't cheat in MMO's!

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#5 carlosjuero
Member since 2008 • 1254 Posts
Guess they shoulda played the game the way it was meant to be played eh? The only drawback to this sort of thing is that the 'detection' routines [and/or the humans monitoring] are never 100% foolproof, meaning its possible for there to be false positives (its happened in other games).
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#6 FelipeInside
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Shift + Delete + Enter on accounts eh? That is cold hearted... really cold hearted but serves them right. Don't cheat in MMO's!

dinuattila
True, it's cold... but if u cheat, u should be punished severely...
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#7 Franko_3
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totally fine with me
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#8 triggerpappy
Member since 2010 • 25 Posts

So whats the problem?

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#9 Deadly_Fatalis
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The Devs are banning cheaters. I don't see anything wrong here.
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#10 Frenzyd109
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Good, I can't stand when people cheat in multiplayer games.
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#11 nutcrackr
Member since 2004 • 13032 Posts
lol bots are funny in guild wars. Funny thing is that the way guild wars is designed there isn't much advantage to bots farming money or items.