Wraithstalker wrote:
Why are people allowed to purchase accounts in this quantity and perpetuate this menace? Are these trial accounts? If that is the case then surelythere is a fix.If so give players the ability to turn off tells from trial accounts. I'm not sure I care too much if I don't receive communications from this section of the player base, especially if it's causing me to get tells which are making my play a lot less enjoyable, regardless of any filtering. I'm paying to enjoy the game, they are not paying to abuse the system. It's an option, as soon as the account are subscribed, they can do whatever they want, you can even turn this feature off for players who want to help lower level players or don't perceive this as an issue. Remember these are just trials, they should have as little impact on possible on the customers who pay to play.
If these are full accounts then you appear to be making a whole lot of money from them if they are banned. I imagine the income here would serve to increase the amount of customer service manpower devote to erradicating this issue.
I'm happier with these changes recently, but if there is anyway of making it better and erradicating selling of services or plat (especially on a SE server where other players are bound by very strict guidelines, and have to pay commission to SOE for using the service), you need to improve things accordingly.
Trial accounts have not been able to send tells/mail for many many updates now.
And as to your second point, no, credit card fraud does not yield a profit for us. It yields a loss. See Gallenite and Silverfrost's posts in this thread for a bit more info.
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