Originally posted by Zippy

I just gained some respect for Bioware.  Any player should know its an exploit to loot level 50 gear when they are a low level.  If they can get to Illum they should report and bug it, not exploit it.  BW did the right thing giving them a short term ban.  More games should do  he same and let people know any exploiting will result in severe punishment.  They are lucky it was not a permanent ban.

Its not an exploit you can fly your ship there as early as level 16

Originally posted by Cthulhu23

Lmao...there is no way that story is true.  

But it's on the internet, it must be true.

lol... and I got banned for just talking above my level.  A friend of mine got banned for grouping with a non Sith.  The game is really strict.

Originally posted by RizelStar

Hey anyone mind testing this out?

 

And why FUCCK is Ilum not locked for people who are not in it's level zone?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

When a game company boast that their game is an open persistent world then one would expect there would be no locks or restrictions to lands or zones.

Wow, when the Hell did gamers get this damn gullible/stupid?  There's not a scintilla of proof for this ridiculous claim.  Did people really not notice the mistakes and poor wording of the supposed email?  I almost feel ashamed right now.

I don't even like the game (or EA for that matter), and it's still painfully obvious that this is all designed to stir the hive.  I guess successful troll is successful?

I tested this, a few times.  It's a pure lie.  No ban.  No warning.  No problems.   Duhhhhh.....

Originally posted by mgilbrtsn

 A friend of mine got banned for grouping with a non Sith.

Well, he kind of deserved it then, no?
 :D

Is it bad I can sort of believe this? Makes sense if you consider gold sellers and them not wanting to cash in on doing that. A rather primative way to address possibly ways to exploit that the game creators didn't get time to code to stop, or simply might not of known how to. It would be a step mostly against gold sellers though also trying to limit regular players from amassing cash.

Dont believe this not one bit, not even EA would ban people for nothing more than traveling to a zone that is not meant for your level, ya your not supposed to be there but, the only thing that happens to you is the same thing that happens in any mmo when you go to  a place higher level than you, YOU GET RAPED by the enemies there. Bioware or EA would not do this, and I just read the eula and i'm not a lawyer but i didnt see anything in there that would even give them the right to ban someone over the story that was listed.

Originally posted by gorgondo

Wow, when the Hell did gamers get this damn gullible/stupid?

As soon as a game came out that they didn't like.

Bioware didn't create pre-CU/pre-NGE SWG 2.0. They didn't create a Star Wars version of EVE. They created the game they wanted to make, so of course, now we're going to be subjected to a bunch of idiocy and trolling over it. It's the nature of these forums.

BW is not that stupid, I dont believe it.

Originally posted by tort0429

I tested this, a few times.  It's a pure lie.  No ban.  No warning.  No problems.  

Exactly. There isn't anything in SWTOR that would lead Bioware to ban a player for going into a higher level zone and harvesting something. The whole premise of the OP is ridiculous.

If you've got the harvesting skill to do it, and you're brave enough to try and go to a higher level planet to try, go right ahead. There isn't anything stopping you from doing it.

Originally posted by dubyahite
I got banned for soloing a heroic 2. :(

 Which one and what level were you?

Originally posted by tort0429

I tested this, a few times.  It's a pure lie.  No ban.  No warning.  No problems.   Duhhhhh.....

 

Video tape it.

I can't believe you just like I don't believe the OP either, I dob't know if you tested it or not lol,

Duhhhhh.....

It's funny how I can put money how people actually will believe your word yet immediately bring the op down, yea I know it's the way of life.

Tragic.

The TOS states that you may not :

Abuse or exploit bugs, undocumented features, design errors or problems in the game. 

If and When they (EA \BW) decide that your game play is an abuse or exploit, then you will be in viloation of the TOS.  So don't be surprised.  You signed a contract, you may not have read that contract, and even if you didn't you may not have understood that contract.  But none the lest you are bound by that contract.  To Bad, So Sad.

Durring Early Acces I made 6 Chracters, one for each of the crafting crew skills. I am a casual player, getting one main to max level in 5 days is not my play style.  I leveled 2 characters that first day to 11 and 9.  Any good gear I mailed to my Alt's to twink them.  On the second day I noticed that my mailed items where not ariving, as they had on the first day.  So I put in a ticket.  Three days later Customer Service replied, that the problem had gone away, and may have been fixed as a side event in a patch.  And twinking begain again. 

I suspect they had disabled my mail while they considered, if twinking would be a violation of their TOS or not.  They are not familure with the concept of mule or twink, and may have considered such activity to be an abuse or exploit.  I found TOR had many tiny flaws, that could be overlooked.  But as a whole these flaws say to me that EA \ BW are new and neive to the MMO market and don't know what they are doing.  The GTN (AH) was not made by or for someone familiar with MMO gaming.

It is obvious to me that the decision makers at TOR learned little from Warhammer Online.

Serves him right, in my opinion, assuming it is true. 

The game was advertised as a traditional MMORPG set in Star Wars environment . So yeah, if you intend to do "nonlinear" activities, then he should have picked a sandbox and not this game. His mistake, not Biowares.

Originally posted by InFaVilla

Serves him right, in my opinion, assuming it is true. 

The game was advertised as a traditional MMORPG set in Star Wars environment . So yeah, if you intend to do "nonlinear" activities, then he should have picked a sandbox and not this game. His mistake, not Biowares.

Not sure if serious...

Originally posted by adam_nox

Originally posted by InFaVilla

Serves him right, in my opinion, assuming it is true. 

The game was advertised as a traditional MMORPG set in Star Wars environment . So yeah, if you intend to do "nonlinear" activities, then he should have picked a sandbox and not this game. His mistake, not Biowares.

Not sure if serious...

Perfectly serious. If you purchase something, it is your responsability to find out information about what the game is and what it promises. If you then find out that the game doesn't work in a way you like it despite them fulfulling their promise, then it is your fault and not the company hosting a game.

Originally posted by Icewhite

Originally posted by fundayz

P.S. This could still be all BS, but knowing EA Customer Support I would not be surprised at all.

Crowd:
     Burn her! Burn! Burn her! Burn her!
BEDEVERE:
     How do you know she is a witch?
Villager #2:
     She looks like one.

Game forum public trials have such high standards of evidence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTdDN_MRe64