January 24, 2008 – 7:06 pm
Tools That Allow Enhanced Character Movement
- December 21, Approx. 690 cases
- January 8, Approx. 480 cases
- January 9, Approx. 180 cases
- January 10, Approx. 120 cases
- January 11, Approx. 170 cases
- January 16, Approx. 360 cases
- January 22, Approx. 120 cases
Tools That Circumvent Game Mechanics With Timing of Ability Use
- January 24, Approx. 70 cases
Tools That Automatically Repeat A Particular Action
- December 21, Approx. 1,330 cases
- December 27, Approx. 1,200 cases
- January 9, Approx. 1,070 cases
- January 17, Approx. 1,440 cases
- January 23, Approx. 380 cases
Gil and Item Exchange for Real World Money
- January 21, Approx. 30 cases
- January 24, Approx. 1,420 cases
Monopolizing Areas or Monsters
- December 21, Approx. 130 cases
- January 17, Approx. 290 cases
Using Synthesis and Auction Houses for RMT Activities
- December 21, Approx. 510 cases
- December 25, Approx. 710 cases
- January 15, Approx. 1,190 cases
- January 21, Approx. 1,310 cases
- January 22, Approx. 270 cases
Accounts Re-Subscribed to PlayOnline
- January 24, Approx. 240 cases
Source: Accounts Banned (Jan. 24)
December 12, 2007 – 9:50 pm
Something that has been happening for a while, but have been picking up more recently where people will get their charcter’s kicked out of the game on Friday and their passwords already changed on them when they try to log back in.
Worse of all GMs will do nothing but say to call Customer Service when they open. Problem is that they aren’t open during the weekends so they have lost their character completely over the whole weekend. By the time they get a hold of their character all of their items are stripped as well as gil and any Rare/Ex items thrown out and more recently they change the character’s server to another one to change the character’s names.
Even more depressing when they call up Customer Service is that all of the billing and credit card information was swapped and because the person doesn’t have the current information they won’t help them. Even if they have the old information that was before it was changed on Friday.
Something came up that some people discovered was that a few very popular web sites had programs blocked by their firewalls trying to communicate back to these sites. One was FFXIAH and another was Somepage. I’m not sure if these have been fixed yet.
But for the most part what people have learned from basic investigating is that these programs would take a screenshot soon after Pol.exe was ran so they can get your Content ID number and either hope you used the password on any of the other sites that was already hacked or the program would log the keys you pressed and get your password that way.
The worst part of all this is that Square Enix will do nothing to restore your character even though the information is in the logs until you file a criminal complaint with your local police to get a subpoena before they’ll restore any part of the character. While Blizzard would look in the logs ban the players that hacked and restore the character back to the original state.
November 28, 2007 – 5:11 pm
After running around the first night I could play getting most of the Maws for fast transportation between the present and the shadow region (the past). Also started the missions to join the Allied Campaign for Allied Notes but didn’t get the time to do anything with them yet.
I joined the Iron Rams (San d’Oria) because that was the first town I came to and didn’t want to find my way to Bastok that night. Tomorrow I’ll see what I can find in the new areas after figuring out where the heck I’m going after I get all of the Maws and maybe mess around with the Allied Campaign.
November 27, 2007 – 5:03 pm
I finally got my expansion disk after it was delayed because of a manufacturing issue of printing Vista Only on the box so they had to recall all US PC boxes because they were afraid of being sued because it should’ve said “Vista Ready.” We’ll see how the new expansion stacks up against the other ones in the next couple of months.
Over all just 2 new jobs, Dancer and Scholar and no tank job that they promised in the past but interviews said that they couldn’t think of a new tank type job so they dropped the plan and by the end of the expansion they will have the same number of new areas that the original game came with which will be interesting to see what they come up with for mobs and difficulty.
November 14, 2007 – 6:21 pm
Over the last month they removed another 2 billion gil removed from all of the servers.
- Usage of tools that allow enhanced character movement.
November 6, Approx. 290 cases
November 9, Approx. 400 cases
November 12, Approx. 300 cases- Usage of tools that circumvent game mechanics with respect to the timing of ability use, etc. in certain areas or at points where Notorious Monsters appear.
November 14, Approx. 20 cases
- Using cheats to automatically repeat a particular action.
October 25, Approx. 760 cases
November 2, Approx. 20 cases
November 4, Approx. 780 cases
- Gil and item exchange for real world money.
October 26, Approx. 40 cases
October 29, Approx. 10 cases
November 14, Approx. 510 cases
- Instances of areas or monster monopolization.
October 26, Approx. 350 cases
November 2, Approx. 40 cases
November 4, Approx. 60 cases
November 7, Approx. 280 cases
- Usage of synthesis and auction houses for RMT activities.
November 1, Approx. 1,690 cases
- Accounts from people that were previously confirmed to have RMT connections, or that had violated the user agreements but re-subscribed to PlayOnline.
November 14, Approx. 60 cases
Source: Accounts Banned (Nov. 14)