Aion's banhammer system includes volcano-summoning rabbits

True.


When Aion was first in beta... a lot of 'haters' were complaining that Aion would be full of gold farmers... well BAM.

At the very least it will serve as an example. They may not get them all, but it's better than not doing anything. Of course if people were just apathetic simpletons like yourself, nothing would ever get done.

give me a break, it wont do anything, i don't care how smug you want to be to me.

all that will happen is that the gold sellers go onto the next account they have in line, or go and hack more accounts and do it again.

this wont do anything, and obviously Aion hasnt hired full time GMs to go and ban sellers, after a few hours it will be back to normal.

gold sellers have been around since MMOs have been around, and they will always be there.

i find it hilarious that that got downrated.

it's simple fact, one GM putting on a show for a couple of hours won't do anything, it will provide good entertainment for a while, but after that, it will go back to normal.

Look who's the smug one.

"So tell me how you got banned again?"
"A HUGE Epic type rabbit creature spit at me and I was engulfed by a volcano!"

ADD? They are usually the ones having problems concentrating..

You need to be able to condense your thoughts to concentrate. Here we got 45 hot keys, 3 different status bars, and 80 people all talking at the same time on the screen. ADD people have the energy to keep up with all that.

That's ADHD

Thats my issue. I hate watching mmo videos because I theres always so much shit on the screen.

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons?

ADD was the original...before ADHD got all the attention. To all of you who don't remember the good ol' days...its the same thing.

ADD - Attention Deficit Disorder
ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

...and no, you don't have to be hyperactive to have it. Many adults learn to cope or cover their symptoms without showing signs of hyperactivity.

@Durden
You are not the only one to hold this opinion.

I was just a normal guy with a life and friends. I played casual video games on the consoles and was mainly involved with Halo 3, other shooters, and sports games. Then one day my frat brother told me about his glory days Everquest and WoW. So expecting to think it was a horrible, boring game, I downloaded the trial of WoW. The trial was pretty boring and there was not much to do, but for some reason it left me wanting more.
A few of us ended up downloading an illegal version of the game and played on wowscape, a private server. There were a bunch of bugs, but I got addicting to leveling up. I played for about 4 months but I was never a very good player and I quit the game for good because it was ruining my social life/school work.
Then for some retarded reason I decided to play the trial again, and once again I wanted to play the full version. This time, however, I bought the retail version and started playing on a retail server. I once again became addicted to leveling up, but it was just the beginning. When I reached the max level I soon found myself constantly searching for strategies to get better and I spent all my time playing the game. I stopped going to class, I stopped picking up the phone when friends/family would call. My life basically was smoking pot and playing WoW. I played for about 11 months and I was one of the best PvE mages on my server. Then one day I realized that my life was significantly worse and I was depressed as fuck and it was all because of WoW and smoking pot. So i quit both and my life has been improving ever since. Its been about 4 months since i quit and i've never been better.

Wow Donny. Your story reminds me of that doc Joystiq posted about a few months ago. I'm glad you put it down.

at least smoke pot with others, that way you still keep the social bar and the fun bar full.

I guess you could say...

*sunglasses*

he got fired.

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(in the style of won't get fooled again)
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

[GM]Dave's blog is their training manual

Arcter, I'm almost positive what's actually happening is GMs are hunting for Goldseller accounts behind the scenes using special software, banning en masse akin to the 10k+ they banned recently, and then when they get a petition from the players that "so and so is gold-selling", they rain fiery justice from the heavens as a form of community involvement 1) for the entertainment value, and 2) just to show players "No really, we actually ARE doing something". It's a great way to give the players something for their trouble, while still accomplishing something worthwhile.