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Originally Posted by Bardalicious
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I take solace in the fact that there are people reasonable enough to see how unreasonable this situation is. If nothing else comes of this thread, let it serve as a warning to others that the GM's have no real intention of working to help you if something goes wrong.
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I've had GMs help me more than a few times. I don't think I'm unique in that respect. So, while I get your frustration, its just not true that "GM's have no intention of working to help you if something goes wrong."---all your situation proves is that they have no intention of helping
you in
this situation for
specific reasons. Extrapolating past that is not valid.
You
might be right about being the rightful owners of these disputed accounts.
There really isn't enough information provided on the agreement(s) made during the sales that took place. Without knowing the exact terms of each deal (of which there are several chained together to bring the story to this point) or what the guidelines are for enforcement then there is really no way of sorting it out correctly each and every single time. The problem with resolving cases like this (not just yours) is that the type of evidence needed to deprive someone of account ownership has to be EXTREMELY high for the GMs to intervene; often this type of evidence simply can't/doesn't exist. But the precedent of erring on the side of caution before forcing ownership of accounts to change hands makes prudent sense to me.
I've been on this server from the beginning. Transferring accounts has been, at best, a very risky and not officially supported marketplace by the staff. Situations like these are certainly part of the reason why the prudent decision of the staff was to make account sales for virtual goods against the rules.
There is an interesting question about the SMS changes creating what were probably unintended issues for past-sold accounts that would have previously been insulated at the time of the sale now being unprotected.
The only lesson here for other players is really not to give out account information, ever.