Pirates of the Burning Sea

This atricle has gone up in the news section at FLS
http://www.burningsea.com/page/news/article&article_id=10559

Account Suspensions for Grey-Market Gold Transactions

01.19.08 by Aether

This evening, Flying Lab Software staff issued a series of permanent bans as a result of gold selling activities by players of Pirates of the Burning Sea. Additionally, 24 hour bans were issued on multiple accounts found to have participated in the transfer of this illicit gold.

Please understand that we will investigate all reports of illicit transactions and we will following up with the appropriate disciplinary actions, which could include confiscation of the resources in question, and ultimately banning accounts that sell or buy these illicit resources.

In the future, if you are approached by someone seeking to sell you gold, you are asked to file a support ticket by typing /support in game, or by visiting our support site.

Customers are encouraged to share as much information as possible, including the characters name, the server where this occurred, the time of the incident and any links they may have shared with you during the solicitation.

Flying Lab Software has developed a host of resources to help us identify these illegal activities as they occur, and we will take swift and decisive action to protect and preserve the economic features of our game.

Best,
Aether

Just interested in comments and discussion here.

After witnessing the horror that is Hellgate London where general chat gets spammed every 6 seconds by someone named Yoitretfdskjtg selling their shit, im all for seeing them and the people who buy from them get perma banned the second they are caught.

Yep ban the buyers and perma lock their home address from the game.

Turbine take a similar stance with lotro.

Good for them both

Death to them no good macroing, gold selling/buying, spamming, scamming scum.

Ban them all!!!   Slap them all with fishes and lock them up in a pit!

Muhahaha!

[devil's advocate mode]

So, what really upsets you guys is the spamming?  Not the actual gold selling?
Isn't that a seperate issue?

[/devil's advocate mode]

Economic imbalance. Also, if I spend 20 hours working my ass off to earn something in the game and Richie Rich drops $30 on some farmer and in 5 minutes has earned the same thing, well, thats just plain wrong.