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King Sigerius 
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 Posted: 26 Mar 2018 at 17:49 |
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Did you get the guy who was selling his accounts? Or just his messenger?
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GM Stormcrow
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Posted: 26 Mar 2018 at 16:45 |
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Hi everyone,
It's come to our attention via a player petition that there's some Real Money Trading (RMT) going on in Illyriad. We've investigated it and - in association with our partner PayPal - have confirmed that it's true. RMT is where players sell goods or services in game in exchange for Real Money, paid directly to them via PayPal, Steam, eBay etc. RMT is specifically banned in our Terms of Service (2.2 "You must not sell, rent or sub-licence material from our website" and 2.4 "You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for a commercial purpose;"), and is - as everyone knows - also prohibited by pretty much every MMO out there, so there is no possible "innocent" explanation here. It's always been a sign of a game "coming of age" when there is both a demand and a supply of RMT; so it's peculiarly flattering, in a way, that this niche browser-based RTS has attracted RMT sellers. The reason RMT is banned in pretty much every MMO out there is simply because we, the providers of your entertainment environment, need to be fed and watered, keep servers running, bandwidth flowing etc - and RMT not only undermines our income, but also allows players to unfairly profit from our enterprise, our work and our intellectual property, developed over many, many years. It's taken our time and development to make Illy and RMT undermines our ability to keep it going. We've uncovered and permabanned the obvious main culprits, but are digging deeper, and may be permabanning others in due course; it appears that different front end accounts were used to negotiate sales versus actual gold transfers. Not only was gold up for sale, but accounts as well, and we'll be delving into these over the next few hours and days. Recipients of RMT accounts will have those accounts removed from the game. We've decided not to permaban the recipients of RMT gold, but we're 100% aware of who you are, and we want you to know that we're now actively monitoring your accounts for misbehavior of this type in the future. Cue petitions from RMT recipient players saying 'omg, I had no idea this was illegal, but I was absolutely fine taking the ingame mails and private convo price negotiations off to slack'. Thin ice, you people; very thin ice. Selling anything in Illyriad for your own real money gain is strictly prohibited. Please be warned that we have no tolerance for this, at all, ever - and from now onwards will also be permabanning the recipients of any RMT transactions whether for gold, or accounts, or something else. Regards, SC EDIT: Typos, addition of 2.4 from the Terms & Conditions
Edited by GM Stormcrow - 26 Mar 2018 at 17:27 |
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