>Do this to a Dutch citizen.
>Proceed to sue EA/Bioware
>They either have to pay massive fines or reinstate your account and pay for the expenses made in the lawsuit.

Only possible in corperation-run USA.

>Thank you for your understanding.

HUGE BALLS

HUGE FUCKING BALLS

>reddit

>>123093453

Considering that piece of shit shot my sister, I certainly mad now. Fuck you.

>>123093651

>break the rules
>get banned
>there were even warnings

And? Who cares? Oh right, I'm on the "bioware sux and ea is really teh gayz- the board".

>>123093651

>>Breaking the rules for doing something that in-game mechanics allow you to do.
>>NO PATCHES.
>>JUST BANS.
>>GOTY.

It's fake

But seriously, guys. 9/11 has got to be the most hilarious thing since the christian dark ages.

It isn't just Bioware/EA, it's Microsoft too - check this shit out:

http://dipswitch0.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/getting-straight-answers-from-microsoft/

>>123093795
>having a rule to restrict whole zones by level

is that supposed to be a good thing?

>>123094094
This

Holy crap how can you control, or at least TRY to control where and where your players, the one's paying, can go and not go?

>>123094094
He didn't get banned for going to the zone, he got banned for exploiting.

http://swtormovies.com/movieview.php?id=663

>>123092901
i really want that to be real, but it probably isn't

>>123093964
>Steal games from marketplace
>BAWWW I GOT BANNED

That is nothing like this Bioshit thing. Bioware is banning people for playing the game SLIGHTLY differently than they decided was the optimal levels, while Microjew banned a guy for literally stealing games.

>>123093765
Man, I can understand joking about 9/11, I mean that shit happened over 10 years ago.
This literally just happened a few months ago. Stop joking about it, guys.

Also, being a fellow norwegian myself, I'm sorry >>123093651

>>123094166

well said I agree

>>123094094
Yes and no.

Restricting players by banning them for infringing a recommendation is absolute bullshit. In WoW at a low level you could go to Dalaran, or Shattrath for example. Everything near them would kill you, but that wasn't the point. You didn't get banned for it.

Now, if Bioware wants to restrict areas that's up to them. BUT ACTUALLY FUCKING RESTRICT IT. Jesus Fucking Christ, don't put a warning sign saying, warning, area not recommended for those under level 50 then ban someone for ignoring a "recommendation"

Flat out make it so that someone under that level can't enter the zone. don't wait for people to infringe a fucking recommendation and then ban them. That's bullshit.

In Australia we have signs designating speed limits, They usually are white, with a red circle with the speed limit in black numbers inside the red circle.

Sometimes around corners you have a yellow sign that maybe recommends going at 85 Km/H around a bend in a 100 Km/H zone. That's a recommendation, not a legal speed limit, law enforcement can't give you an infringement notice for going at 100 Km/H around that bend.

The same principle should apply here, either make it "law" that people under said level can't enter the zone or accept the fact they're going to enter it. Saying "Oh you shouldn't go here, this is a really tough area, it's going to be too hard for you." Then banning someone when they enter is fucked. Just stop them being able to enter those zones.

nopenopeopenopenopenopenoepenopenoesefdjf

>>123094414

>implying you can LITERALLY steal digital products

>>123094481
Learn to grow some balls faggot.

After 7/7 in Britain, people spent less than a day mourning, and were back at the bus stops that exploded the next day.

After the Glasgow airport bombing a taxi driver kicked a burning terrorist so hard in the balls that he broke his foot and burst one of the terrorists balls.

Russia has daily bombing and no one gives a fuck. Only America has been going BAWWWWW TERRURUSTS for over 10 years so they can justify their illegal wars in Iraq and Yemen.

>>123094481
What, are you a cultural marxist?

>>123094742
>>123094742
>Implying taking a copy of the games without paying, using their servers isn't theft

Piracy = file sharing, theft = using their servers

Read the whole RPS article, dumbasses-

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/01/swtor-ban-for-high-level-looting-unlikely/

“Well, the people on bioware fourm are saying he is actually banned for doing a “flip” exploit on the planet. not because he was low level and farming high level nodes. which makes a lot of sense to me. the flip exploit: from what i understand, when the control of the zone is changed from one faction to another, all the gathering nodes respawn. so if you have someone from the other team to cooperate and flip it back and forth, you would have infinite money. the reason why bioware mentioned he is there at low level is most likely to emphasis the fact he is exploiting there isn’t enough high level player to fight for the control of the zone yet.

It is, of course, a dumb overseight on biowares part that this is possible. And also dumb that they outright ban for it.

SWTor image with all the classes?

Read it, it's worth your time.
>reddit

>>123094742
I guess the better way to put it would to be using a digital product without licensed permission from the owner of the digital license. He's using someone's intellectual property illegally.

>leave something open to lowbies
>ban lowbies that make it to it
wat?

Making money is strictly banned in Bioware games

>>123095158
>Power Trading getting banned in an MMO.
I'm honestly not sure how I feel about that. I fucking HATE power trading with a furious passion but I don't think it should be banned. That's going to make for a very interesting game economy.

>>123093962

considering those infidels killed my brethren, yes, I MAD. FUCK YOU.

>>123092901
>Not realizing they might have banned the person for doing things a bot would do

Seriously. Going to a level capped zone as a low level to farm money? How obvious at botting can you get

>>123094292
>exploiting

looking at the OP's pic, it seems that they have decided that looting fucking loot containers on fucking landscape is exploiting.

looting containers is exploiting now?

>Huge open world MMO where players can explore.
>NO you can't explore here, stay on this area! Just enjoy the view.DON'T GO THERE.

>>123095158
So, using the economy is forbidden?

>>123095158
>banned for playing the AH

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

Is anything being done at all to stop this? Because the way I see it, you guys are bitching about it here and on the forums, but not actually doing anything.

>>123095158
>>123095158
What?

>>123095863

What are we supposed to do?

We're already not giving bioware our money

>>123095863
They spent 300 million apparently.
I'm a broke ass college kid who plays video games as a hobby. I'm not motivated to crusade against bioshit in the least.

>>123095158
that's pretty special
at what point does making money from the economy become exploiting the economy?

>>123095158
Because making money off other players is evil.

>>123095669
Uh, that's like the exact opposite of what botters do you fucking idiot. They have high level characters grinding away in lower level zones where the bot can play on auto pilot without any troubles. As a low level in a high lvl zone, you have to be extremely cautious of your surroundings and auto pilot would get you killed instantly.

>>123096018
The point which bioware has set for the day, if you are getting money too fast it's an exploit since it'll cut the grinding time of the game short and you'll probably realise the game has no substance very fast if you haven't done so already, thus you get banned to safeguard their games longlivity (lol).

>>123095158
>permeate

I'd post inigo montoya but i don't have that image.

>>123096191
Is it possible to be this retarded?

>>123096191
Unless of course you're bioware, then milking players for money is not only perfectly fine, but a god given right and you question it you're an entitled cunt.

>>123096191
>Be sith
>get banned for ripping off people

Bioware.

>>123096277
Of course, you just have to be an average biodrone.

>>123096191
>>123095158
I just forwarded those two screenshots to my friend who loves playing the auction house, and who always has max gold in nearly every MMO she plays.

There's another $60 you won't be getting, Bioware.

>>123096352
>Be sith
>get banned for ripping off people

Oh God my sides

>>123096378

>>123096378

why

They did it..
They actually fucking did it..
They saw what they wanted and my GOD they didn't stop until they got it!
They've actually become a worse fanbase than the Sonic fanbase!
How is that even a thing?!

>>123096317
Of course. Bioware deserves every cent they get and more.

>>123096378

>problem with a core element of the game

>this part of the game is not intended to be played. So stop complaining

my god

>>123093863
You can see her left areola

>>123096936
I meant right

>>123096615
Not there just yet. Lets wait until we see a couple more pieces of fan "art", then we will see who the boss of this gym.

>>123097181

that's the third time that has been posted
is the /v/ anti-bioware group really this pathetic?

to be honest i'm quit shocked...
i've read this whole thread and i know at least two of my friends playing swtor
but whattheflyingfuck?
you can get bannend if you use the eco ingame?
i used to do this in wow back then and made good gold not a prob
my god
this game is worse then wow

>>123097401
go offline, ray

>>123094665
Again, that's not why he got banned you fucking piece of shit. He exploited stuff in the zone because there aren't enough high level players to occupy it.

Fucking cocksucking idiot.

>>123095677
>Using a glitch to restock all the containers over and over and over and over

>>123099361
No, you are trying to mixing things up, the exploit that requires a lot of work is something different and have not relation with what lvl you are. This guy was banned because he went to a high lvl place and loot chest there, nothing more, stop trying to defend bioware.

>>123099967
Dude, I don't even play Bioware games. Hell, I hate MMO's with a passion.

But if you read a little about this you realize that he looted the chests, then did some player faction thingy which restocked the chests, then looted them again. Which is a fucking exploit.

>>123099967
Yeah, right. I hate bioware and tor as much as the next person, but do you honestly believe that he just happened to casually go into a high level area with maxed splicing (yes, you need to powerlevel your splicing[lockpicking] with tons of money that low levels don't have to actually unlock those chests), looted a few chests and went on his way?

He's just trying to get sympathy points to get himself unbanned.

>>123100331
So you are saying it should be a bannable offence to have a lot of money on a low level character?

>>123100213
You do play, because is really the only way to know about that exploit.
And no, read the mail, nothing of what you are saying is there, the situation is quite clear, a guy went to a high level area and loot a container, he didn't use someone of another faction to reset it or the mail will say that too.

>>123100422
He sent money to a low level alt.

He used that money to powerlevel his splicing skill(which has no point normally, as you'd only need to powerlevel it if you specifically want to open higher level chests than you are).

He went to the exact high level zone that just happened to be mentioned in the exploit. Out of all the high level zones, he went to Ilum.

He then opened a chest, getting tons of XP from using his powerleveled splicing.

COINCIDENCE, AMIRITE

>EA

>>123100331
Why not? that's what the game let you do, there is a problem in wanting to make money?

>>123100680
so he power levels a character within the game mechanics using only the game and was banned?

lol

Why didn't Bioware just cap profession levels like WoW? I mean, rogue's lockpicking is level capped?

Christ. Bioware, could you be more fucking incompetent?

>>123100680
Is not coincidence, i'm sure the guy did it wanting money and knowing about how, what is never mentioned is any sort of exploit, he just did what the game let him. Now you are trying to make him sound like a child rapist in order to defend your beloved bioware, that is way worse.

>>123100485
We've been through this shit yesterday with forum posts from TOR and players that actually play on here. There are faction specific nodes that, when looted, cause a spawn for the opposite faction.

The emails are based on 5-6 stock replies that are intentionally vague so they can cover several issues.

Do not post about something when you are an ignorant cunt.

>>123100822
He was most likely banned before his friend got there.

The last part of the exploit is that you open a chest and get lockpick XP, but don't loot it. Then your friend who plays an opposite faction character opens it too, but he doesn't loot it either. For some reason, the chest will become locked again for the first character. He then lockpicks it again, and gets XP for it the second time. They alternate like this for infinite XP for unlocking a single chest repeatedly.
It's an extremely obvious exploitation of a bug.

If you honestly believe that he just powerleved his splicing just to open a chest or two and walk away then you're extremely ignorant.

>>123100485
For fuck sake, read the thread. It's mentioned like 10 times just in here. The exploit that is, that's how I know about it.

Jesus christ, how retarded are you?

>>123101125
TEAMWORK IS BANNED

>>123101021
>stock pile
The mail sounds really precise to me
>NOOO BUT THE GUY ACTUALLY USED A EXPLOIT BUT IS NEVER MENTIONED, THAT'S TOTALLY HOW IT GOES
Yes i'm sure bioware will forgot to mention the whole reason of the band and instead will say stuff that have not relation with it(like being lower level). I guess when you spend money in something you have to defend it, never accept your buyer remorse!

>>123101268
Repeatedly and knowingly exploiting a bug that lets you get infinite XP is a bannable offense in every single MMORPG.

>>123101125
I know what the exploit is, i play the game too, THAT'S NOT WHAT THE MAIL SAYS.

>>123101268
>Two opposing teams
>teamwork

>EAware in charge of an mmo

I hope he bought the collector's edition

>>123101431
>infinite XP
>implying there's a limited ammount of XP in the game
that's like banning in wow because a friend boosted you through a dungeon

>>123101196
And you take their word for it, without checking it? why you will even care if you don't play it? it doesn't give you more credibility to be discussing something you don't have any idea about

>>123101574
Men, I'm betting the faggot who got banned got a few warnings for shit before that mail.
>intent to exploit the game
Basically, like how you can get caught for planning a murder.

>>123101623
And you can get banned for that, so everything is in order.

>fake reddit emails on my /v/
>250images 611posts omitted
oh how you have fallen

>>123101745
OH HE WAS INTENDING TO EXPLOIT THE GAME!! BIOWARE MUST HAVE THE BEST INVESTIGATION TEAM IN A MMO EVER, THEY CAN EVEN READ WHAT PLAYERS WILL DO, BEST DEVELOPER EVER

>>123101734
Why should I bother? If people claim there's an exploit, and even provide links which I check through quickly, I believe that they know what they are talking about and yes, in cases like this where it's about an exploit that seems to be well documented, I believe them.

Furthermore, I'm bored at work so I'm literally open for discussing anything, even stuff I don't know shit about. And I'm mostly in TOR threads because I got a stupid ass friend who plays it, so I'm learning as much shit Bioware is doing bad so I can bring it up next time he brings TOR up.

>>123101913
It's a real email, you fucking retard. EA is just incompetent, and uses nebulous banning emails. The person actually got banned for abusing a certain game mechanic.

>>123101913
Now is also fake, oh boy the defense team get better and better with their arguments.
I heard the guy was actually selling drugs, he should be in prision!

>>123101963
Do you know his story? Do you know if he got warned a few times before he got banned?
How do you know he did not exploit the game before and got a warning?

>>123101913
>fake email
Bioware's dick must be very tasty that you like it so much.

>>123102043
>>123102063
I got a question, is there anymore proof of this other than the screenshot of the mail? So far, all I've seen is warnings, not actual bans.

>>123102043
So they are very specific about the zone, the lvl and what the guy did, but not about the exploit, sounds about right

>>123102097
I don't know, how you know he did? because you sound quite convince that's the case, is just your wild guess?
I'm basing my opinion in factual evidence, you are basing it in your love for bioware.

>>123102213
It is right. EAware is fucking retarded, remember?

>>123102204
google Ilum xp glitch

>>123102386
Yeah, no, as much as i hate EA, trying to defend bioware with it is dishonest at best

>>123102338
Oh, come on, now.
So now everyone who is against blatant exploiting in MMORPGs is a Bioware lover? What's next, people who don't like fags using aimbots in CS:Source are Valve fanboys?

>>123102338
>love for bioware
There we go again, making assumptions.
First off, the only Bioware game I've tried was Mass Effect 2 and it wasn't my cup of tea.
I hate MMO's and I think that Bioware raped Star Wars with what I've heard/seen of this game. I would've probably tried the game if it would've been something like the first 10 levels you we're just a force sensitive, and depending on your actions you became sith or jedi. Anywho.

>factual evidence
So this screenshot is now FACT? It's nothing that could've been faked? Look, I think EA is a bunch of assholes, but seriously, if half of the shit people claimed about them would've been true, they would've been out of business by now.

>>123102612
You didn't answer any of my questions, i wonder why.

>>123092901
LOL
>mfw they're still attempting to make a WoW

>>123102707
You change your argument all the time, IS FAKE, NO, THE TEXT IS ACTUALLY WRONG, NO THE GUY WAS EXPLOITING!.
Yes, unless you can provee it wrong, i will take the screen as fact, is way better than take your word for it.

>>123102722
Actually, I'm the one you quoted and here's my answer >>123102707

You're assuming a little too much.

>>123093651
Maybe your sister shouldn't have been a sand nigger loving communist?

>>123102910
You do realize you are worse than the biodrones? I mean, at least I find them funny. I just don't get it how a person can believe anything they read on the internet as blindly as you haters do. It fucking boggles my mind.

You're almost like religious fanatics and screenshots of alleged mails are the big bad spaggeti monster you believe in.

>recommended

Isn't that supposed to just be, you know, a recommendation, as in if you're up to it and have the skill to pull it off you can still do it at a lower level?

I mean it says recommended level not required level so how is it fucking glitch exploiting?

>>123102985
You mean like saying:
>Do you know if he got warned a few times before he got banned?
>How do you know he did not exploit the game before and got a warning?
Yes, i agree that's too much assumption

>>123103122
Cool, now we start with the ad hominem, i wonder if strawman comes next

>if it didn't get released now... we wouldn't even have it right now

>>123103267

It's not ad hominem if his argument is to attack your character, retard.

>>123103200
But I'm not stating those questions as facts, I'm just asking questions.
I'm not saying he got warned before the ban, if he got banned, I'm saying I don't know but I'm at least asking the question and leaving the possibility open that something DID happen before the ban.

You're blindly believing nothing could've happened, you're not even stopping to think "WHAT IF". I don't know shit what happend, so logically I ask myself and you people questions, what if scenarios, but you can't even do that because you have one picture, which we don't know if it's real or not, as "fact".

>>123103478
I didn't know my character is in discussion here or have any relation to what i was saying, i though the topic and that particular post was about something else.
But i guess is better this way, so you don't have to deal with real arguments, let's see what you think about me?

>>123103758

I don't really give a fuck, fuck off. I'm just here to hate SWTOR

>>123103585
Of course you didn't state them as facts, that's what assumption means, now that doesn't mean is ok to just make a bunch of shit up when you don't have anything to back it up.
And i Blindly believing?
>someone provide proof
>there is a lengthy thread in TOR forums about the subject
>in contrast i have one guy making bullshit excuses with not proof
You don't know what Blindly means don't you?

>>123103947
I though you wanted to discuss my character, i was starting to feel special

>>123104088
Yeah, and I'm pretty sure a lot of the people posting about this aren't subjective at all, right?
I'm sure every person that got banned never did anything to deserve it, I'm pretty sure every person on this planet would never exploit anything.

Look, I'm not saying EA is handling this good, but just because there's a screenshot of a mail and some people screaming on the forums about it only gives you one side of the story. Do you really expect that 17 year old kid that used an exploit and got banned to go to the forums and calmy talk about it? No, they create a shitstorm that turns into a shitcyclone.

I mean, I guess I'm just overly posivitive but I have a hard time accepting one side of the story as facts, when I don't have the full story. What I do have right now, is a bunch of screenshots, some angry nerds at a forum that got banned.
Chances are, they deserved it. Perhaps they didn't, but right now I don't know so I'm not jumping to conclusions without the full story.

>>123102707
> So this screenshot is now FACT? It's nothing that could've been faked?
Go ahead, check the DLCware forums.

It's facual.

>>123104943
But we still don't have the entire story, we have half the story which is angry nerds that somehow got banned.
We don't know why, except a vague mail. We don't know if this is the only mail that was sent, we don't know if there was a follow up mail or a mail before it.

When people get banned, they tend to hide everything that might show why they got banned. For all we know, anything could have led up to the banning in the screenshot.

This is hilarious, it's DA2 all over again
> NO THEY DIDN'T DO THAT! SCREW YOU THEM ADMITTING TO IT IS NOT PROOF! FUCKING /V/ JUST BANDWAGONING ON A GOOD GAME CALLING IT SHIT JUST BECAUSE IT DOESN'T MEET THEIR UNREALISTIC STANDARDS!

>>123105233
> We don't know if this is the only mail that was sent, we don't know if there was a follow up mail or a mail before it.
Yes lets grasp at straws some more please.

>>123105348
Yes, it's better to believe angry MMO playing neckbeards who managed to get banned somehow then to actually try to be logical and try to at least THINK that something might bave preceeded the banning.

Cause you know, an angry MMO neckbeard is very trusty-worthy I heard. And not at all subjective, right? If they were to get banned they would come clean with everything they did preceeding the ban, every little exploit they used instead of going to the TOR forums and scream, right?

>>123105612
And EAware has been soo trustworthy and has nooooooooo history of shady (an understatement) bans at all right?

Like banning people for (gasp) swearing, or saying mean things about their games.

>tor thread
>everybody talking about how bad it is
>suddenly out of nowhere 10 guys who type the exact same way halfway through the thread
>every single time

it's like bioware has employees googling their game at all times for the exact purpose of defending the shit online

>>123105348
It's hardly grasping at straws. They were probably warned, or at least it's fair to assume they were warned. And they continued to do it. Hell, even if they weren't warned, it was obviously an exploit, and they knew it.

They couldn't have possibly thought they weren't breaking the rules, end of story. And as I said, they were most likely warned. Break the rules and get banned, not hard to grasp.

>>123105816
Bitch EAware made me a firm believer in astroturfing.

>you have been banned, reason: Being good at video games
TOR is the anti eve, where any shrewd marketing and clever game play is punished with a ban.

I am monitoring this thread. Your behavior is inappropriate, we are tracking your informations and you will be banned from any fine EA games you have purchased.

It is our game, and we know how to run it.

-----------------------------------------------------

Be excrement to each other.

>>123105841
> It's hardly grasping at straws.
it outright is grasping at straws, going on about how "oh they might've gotten another mail at first and then this one".

Do you even realise how stupid it sounds?

>>123105913
Sorry, how is exploiting the game economy and subverting the intended flow of the game being "good at games"? If you played the game you would give a shit what this does to a server, but you don't.

Can someone post that image of the cities looking exactly the same as WoW's or something, but in space?

>>123105799
See, without knowing the full story we can't really know who to trust, can we?
Although I agree, I'd rather trust the neckbeards than EA, but since I don't play TOR or ever will, I don't really care that much. This is just a great way to kill time at work.

Thanks for the discussions people, but I really got to go back to working now.

> cornered the hunter ammo market
> no one else but me
> make plenty of dosh

Here it seems I'd get banned.

>>123106035
You're missing the point. IF they had received another mail before this one, telling them they were breaking the rules, and then they continued to do it, and then got banned, they have only themselves to blame. Don't try to make EA/Bioware out as the bad guys in this situation. If they were told to stop and they didn't, then whatever happened after that is on their shoulders, not the other way around.

>>123106231
Yes, you are evil, anyone but bioware profiting (even digitally) on a bioware game should be punishable by death!

Why did the Breivik-pictures stop?

Star Wars franchise has existed since the 1970s.

World of Warcraft launched only years ago.

What you imply makes no sense.

------------------------------------------------------------

Be excrement to each other.

>>123106361
> Don't try to make EA/Bioware out as the bad guys in this situation.
Why shouldn't I?
> You're missing the point.
The point about how fucking stupid your argument is? No I got that one.

>>123106509
Alright, let's just pretend for a second that he did get mails before with warnings.

Do you think he would've posted those as well? Or would he just have posted the "you're banned" mail?

>>123106509
Nice strawman you've got going on there. Better than trying to argue against reason huh?

>>123106691
No, if he was abducted by aliens I don't think he would've posted pictures of them either.

>>123106737
> Better than trying to argue against reason huh?
> reason
> biodrone chanting about how he's withholding e-mails because apparently dozens of e-mails are sent out regarding the same ban
> reason

No reason in your "arguments" I'm afraid.

>>123106812
It's like I'm really discussing with my 6 year old nephew.

>get banned from shitty game

He aught to send them a thank you letter.

>>123106898
>are sent out regarding the same ban

Not even a biodrone here, but I've seen multiple pictures of "warning emails" that stated they will get banned if they continue whatever they were doing. Hell, there's a few in this thread I think.

>next generation of PC gamer

>>123106898
To use other MMOs as an example (WoW): if your account is banned, you get no less than 3 emails. One detailing that your account is suspended pending investigation, one informing you of your ability to either appeal or your inability to appeal, as well as one stating the length of the ban. And again, using WoW as an example, if someone is banned they almost always get a warning beforehand, unless their account was hacked/botted. Either way, yes there would be more emails, and yes, it is likely that OP is holding out on other emails they were probably warned in.

>>123106924
Because your entire argument is nothing but IF, IF he got the email earlier, IF he had recieved warnings. IF IF IF IF IF. It's all hypothetical and unproveable so why should we take it seriously?

>>123107199
....

>>123107245
But you're argument is just IF he didn't get anymore mails, IF he only recieved that mail, all of which you cannot prove either and like >>123107239 said, if TOR is copying WoW so much they probabaly send out more than 1 mail as well.

I have examples of other MMO's sending out multiple mails about bans. What do you have to show that they only send out one?

>>123107199
>Qudra

>Mfw

>>123107245
You're claiming that it's unimportant whether or not OP was warned, when the whole issue here is "Oh lord my butt it hurts, I was banned for exploiting the game WITH NO WARNING WAAAHHH"

Also, anyone else notice that "Bioware" spelled Illum wrong? It's spelled Ilum.

>>123107199

Someone got a link to the SWTOR forums?

I need to see the retardation with my own eyes.

Late to the thread, but what exactly did he do? The e-mail sounds like he just went to a planet earlier than BioWare had planned.

>>123107608
>Also, anyone else notice that "Bioware" spelled Illum wrong? It's spelled Ilum.

I don't even play the game so I never noticed, but if it's true... That's a pretty intresting turn of events.

>>123095048

>People still giving money to BiowarEA after reading this

Wow...

wait, who am I kidding, you fucking kids don't have the attention span to actually read this, especially if it's from reddit

>>123094944

>>123107728

So let me clarify the situation with the banning in SWTOR. This is what is REALLY happening. In Illum, there is a PvP zone. In this PvP zone, there is a node to gather. As soon as Republic gathers it, it INSTANTLY spawns for the Sith. Since the zone is completely dead since PvP is 100% broken, a level 17 who got his ship flew there and simply gathered it back and forth to power level his "slicing" profession up.

That got him a perma ban. Pic related.

Their definition of this rule is so incredibly vague, you can also get banned for the following:

>Having a bank alt
>Having any item over your item level
>Leveling your professions to a level higher than is recommended for your level

Furthermore, know what else you can get banned for? Buying low and selling high. That's right. If someone puts something REALLY cheap on the AH, like they want to just get rid of it or something and you buy it for like 10% worth and you put it up there for even more to get some money back, and a GM catches you, you WILL get banned for "exploiting the economy." The same goes for crafted items. If you sell something more than it is decided it is worth after you craft it, you WILL get banned. This leads to such a deflated market, that people are literally selling things at like 30% value.

Oh yeah, one final note. If you get banned, you can NOT cancel your subscription. They do not let you.

>>123107673
We don't really know. But on that planet there is an exploit which gives you unlimited XP, loot n shit.

>>123107673
Basically there is a glitch (read: It's really not a glitch, it's working as intended).
You can keep opening something for exp.
The other faction can then open it too, and it would swap.

Bioware, not thinking ahead, didn't make using nodes level capped. They're now banning everyone who does this.
It really is Bioware's fault.

>>123107673
Went to the planet, and looted crates for that planet about, what, 30 some levels early?

Granted there was no specific rule saying "don't go to other planets early", but I'm guessing if they were clever enough to know that better and more valuable loot existed on a latter planet, then they've probably played an MMO before, likely WoW. And, if that's the case, they knew they were exploiting the game, or the intended flow of the game. Whether or not this is ethical is an entirely different discussion, but the main point is, break their rules and they can ban you. They don't even have to send out warning emails, but they likely did. It's their game, and they can do whatever they want. Blizzard does it, everyone else does as well. It's in that bothersome EULA and TOS you signed when you made your account.

>>123107673
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/01/swtor-ban-for-high-level-looting-unlikely/

Read that.

>>123107832
>Oh yeah, one final note. If you get banned, you can NOT cancel your subscription. They do not let you.

If you can't realize how to do this even after you've been banned, like through the bank or whatever, you shouldn't even be alive.

>>123108104

Yes, I can cancel my bank account or contact my bank. However, that's fucking BULLSHIT that I can't just do it through their website.

This industry.
This whole fucking planet.
I'm going to look up what games Bioware and EA are coming out with so I know what to pirate. They don't deserve money. They deserve a shotgun to the asshole.

To throw this into WoW terms

It would be like if a level 1 ran to STV in WoW to the Gurubashi Arena and he logged in every day at 12AM Midnight when no one was around and took the chest that spawned there and Blizzard banned him.

>>123108104

Why should we have to go through that hassle because EA is retarded?

>>123108163
>cancel my bank account.

Wow... just wow. Really, how old are you? You know you can just call the bank and block the payment?

>>123107777
Holy fuck you are insufferable. Let me guess, you had to walk 15 miles in the snow uphill both ways to get to school and go back home?

>>123108278

So you're justifying them not allowing to cancel my subscription to them because I can cancel my card?

And who is underage here?

This thread...

So much rage...have fun knowing you guys can do nothing about this

I swear if Bioware takes over anymore good games we should just nuke their promotional websites and servers constantly

>>123095048
This explains a lot

>>123108266
No, it isn't. Assuming that the flip exploit was used, which is a a fair assumption, because there apparently have been several people going to Illum at a low level without being banned, the closest thing it would be comparable to is win trading in arenas / BGs.

>>123107902
>hey're now banning everyone who does this.

Really? I've seen one screenshot of one mail where this happened, and a bunch of neckbeards screaming on the TOR forums. I'd hardly call that banning everyone..

>>123108344
You don't cancel your card dipshit, you call the bank and tell them that an incoming charge isn't authorize and to block all further iterations of that charge. Fuck, where do you bank, Wal-Mart?

>>123108266

But that's completly okay and everyone does it

>>123108436

How the fuck is it an "exploit" if it was intentionally coded to be like that? As soon as a Republic gets the node, it spawns for Sith and vice versa. Since the zone is dead, people are just taking turns taking it on both sides.

That's "exploiting"?

>>123108344
But you don't have to fucking cancel your card you fucking moron. You can just block EA/Bioware access to withdraw money from your card..

Jesus christ.

>>123108529

Sounds like you're trying to justify them not allowing me to cancel payments to them on their websites.

How's that bioware cock up your ass feel?

>If you get banned, you can not cancel your subscription
>JUST CALL YOUR BANK AND BLOCK THEM FROM YOUR CARD
>...That doesn't justify
>LOL FUCKING UNDERAGE KIDS I SWEAR

Stay classy /v/

This picture NEVER gets old.

>>123108623
Well, first off. I'm not him, and I don't even like Bioware.
Secondly, you did accept the fucking TOS, and yes, it's shitty that you can't cancel the subscription from their site. Perhaps you shouldn't buy 6 months in advance.

Let me guess, if you get banned on 4chan, you think you're allowed to still access the site? Because that's basically the same thing with their site. Follow the rules and nothing happens.

Or better yet, don't play a fucking shitty Bioware MMO that totally rapes Star Wars in the ass

>>123108707
Granted the inability to cancel via the website is a problem, but it's only exacerbated by getting banned. So, if you don't want to go through some difficulty canceling, then don't cheat the game by trading nodes and get banned, simple as that.

>>123108707
More like
>You can't cancel the sub if you get banned
>Yeah, but you did get banned and you can always take it up with the bank
>BUT I HAVE TO CANCEL MY BANK ACCOUNT
>No...?
>BUT I HAVE TO CANCEL MY CARD!?!?
>No... you just block EA/Bioware access.. It's shitty, but hey, it works.
>FUCKYOUSDFOISJEFIJSEIFJ

Hey /v/

I was just walking around today on SWTOR and some level 50 came up to me. He gave me some level 40 armor (I'm level 15) and said "Here bro, you can use this more than I will when you get up to the level"

I thanked him and went on with my day.

I logged off a bit later and tried to log on a few minutes ago. It seems I was perma banned by Bioware for acquiring gear that is "above my recommended level"

>>123109032

>Still justifying them not letting you cancel your card

God I bet you just love that Biocock, huh son?

>>123108569
>people are just taking turns taking it on both sides
Co-operation between two factions in order to get nodes much faster than intended.

Now let's compare that to win trading. Co-operation between two teams in order to get a higher rating.

Bioware obviously didn't intend it to happen. If the players doing it had had even a slight bit of common sense, they would've realized that it wasn't intended. It is exploiting.

>>123109089
>H-h-ere I go...

The worst thing is, somebody is gonna believe that and enforce it as "fact".

>>123109193
It's sort of like padding in BF3. It's "cheating" because it's not the way you're supposed to level up.

>>123109193

So tell me, why is it on instant respawn for both sides if it wasn't intended in any way? Why couldn't they just put a 20 minute respawn or something on it?

Players saw an opportunity and abused it because they are too stupid to block it off.

>>123103122
>That guy that brings religion into every post

>>123109193

I get where you're coming from, but this is nothing but Bioware's fault. Everything about this situation was their fault for letting happen. They should have taken away and rollbacked the guys char, not fucking banned him.

It's not his fault that the PvP zones are fucking empty because it's broken and there's such an obviously exploitable system.

>>123109287
So you see nothing wrong with Jedi and Sith working together which goes totally against the lore...?

I mean, it's not the way it's supposed to be.

>>123109412
>that guy that doesn't understand analogies

Seeing all these biodrone posts makes me wonder...
How can these people function iRL?