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Aion’s CM Ayase gives away free loot over Twitter

I didn’t even notice this was going on, which honestly is pretty cool.

In keeping up with a deluge of good PR, Ayase started giving out random serial codes that you could apply to your Aion account and receive stacks of potions in game. So let me ask you guys something, is this kind of player-company interaction something you can get behind or would like to see more of?

Giving out a few freebees every once in a while that doesn’t break the game seems like an alright way to start mending the bridges that were half burned during the crappy launch experience.

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NCsoft starts mass account bans to stop RMT and FAILS

So NCsoft came in the dead of night over the weekend and dropped the wicked ban hammer on a lot of accounts. Now the purpose of this was to take advantage of their server lockdowns to wipe out a large amount of players that were violating the EULA. In other words, botters and gold spammers. But they failed. I give them an A for effort but ultimately there’s still a bunch of spam and still prominent and obvious bots in game, but there’s an added twist. It seems that somebody fucked up big time because a lot of players who didn’t do anything wrong also got banned.

Before you ask, no my account is pretty much bulletproof, but that still sucks. Can you imagine trying to log on and fidning your account banned? Worse off you never did anything at all against the EULA that would constitute a ban and you’ve never been reported by another player. That’s some fucked up shit folks.

Sound off, what do you think. How would you fix the gold spam and RMT problem without completely shitting on customer service. I’d like to get a bunch of replies to compile and forward them up to NCsoft.

Good morning/day folks,

A couple of threads on this topic appeared during the night and rather than replying to each one of them I thought I’d create a new one.

We have, as you know, recently banned a large number of users for violating our User Agreement. If you found yourself unable to log in after the night, that would be the reason.

If you are 100% sure you have not been involved with any activity that would violate our User Agreement (this would also include anything related to RMT), then we suggest contacting our Customer Support team at Support | NCsoft who will be able to look into your case.

We understand that the timing is very inconvenient and will make sure that inquiries on this matter are made top priority. Our GMs will be working through the weekend to sort this out as quickly as possible.

- Ayase

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