Someone hacked one of the accounts of one of the guys in my guild on WoW. Now, I know what yer thinking, and I don't blame you cause you don't know him. I trust that he didn't do something bad. Anyway, they cleaned out the guild bank, sold everything all of his toons owned, deleted some of them, and moved the two level 70 ones to another server.
He is currently in the process of working with Blizzard to get back what he can, and they are being very responsive. Their customer service is usually pretty good.
Blizz says this is common for gold farmers. When the toons were found, they were stationed outside an instance will a few items that our guildie didn't own before the hack. I used to be ambivalent about gold farming, figuring it really doesn't hurt anyone for me to sell my fairly and reasonably earned gold to someone else. However, hacking someone's account to get at their stuff is plain wrong.
On another note, I tried Age of Conan recently. If you haven't purchased it, I'd wait awhile. Seems to me like I paid to participate in the beta...it runs like complete poo and has latency issues that make it practically unplayable. Give a few months and maybe it will be better. Me, I am going to let the 30 days go and cancel my account. I've no interest in paying to run beta software. I was in the release of WoW, and I don't remember it being anywhere near this bad....it might have been during beta, but it's hard to remember it's been so long.
Print | posted on Monday, May 26, 2008 3:35 PM