fallout of vendor exploit : SWTOR Discussions

If you took advantage of this exploit, be prepared that your account will most likely be locked and/or banned starting today. They have sent out mails that contain the following content.

Dear [Name],

We are contacting you regarding your account [Accountname] for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.
We wish to notify you that you are in violation of our Terms of Service.

From an investigation of your account, we can see that your character has carried out the following violation:
Credit Farming

As a result of this violation we are locking your account with immediate effect until we have fully reviewed your account.
We will be in contact with you shortly following our review.

Please note that violation of our Terms of Service may result in a suspension or ultimately a permanent account closure. We encourage you to familiarise yourself with our Terms of Service which can be found here:
http://tos.ea.com/legalapp/WEBTERMS/US/en/PC/

Thank you for your understanding.
If you feel you have received this ‘Account Lock’ in error, please contact us at swtoraccountdisputes@bioware.com

So you only did the vendor exploit? Credit farming sounds more like low level chest farming in ilum.

only vendor exploit

Well. If this is true, we will see how things go.

two other people i know also have been suspended so far, no idea of for how long yet

Hmmm, I don't see anything about credit farming in their TOS.

Yeah, I looked through it as well there is nothing in ToS that states credit farming.

Yep I got banned as well as a friend of mine who did it but 1 of them is still not banned probably soon ?

Were you guys low or high lvl or lvl 50s doing this ?

Do you guys think they will reinstate us soon if ever ?

Thanks,

Neo

Level 50 farming this exploit. Nothing yet.

Level 44 and was caught. Nice.

Greetings,

I am Protocol Droid M0-T0, Human Cyborg Relations.

We are contacting you regarding your account for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.

From an investigation of your account we can see that your account was used to violate our Terms of Service.

Specifically, this account participated in exploiting the vendors within the game to generate currency or items in a way that is unintended by design. Your participation in this exploit can create a negative impact on the economy within the game.

As you have violated our Terms of Service we will be applying a suspension on your account. We are applying a 1 week (168 hours) suspension on your account effective immediately.

Please note that for an Exploit of this nature we reserve the right to further investigate the matter and apply further sanctions if required.

We encourage you to familiarise yourself with our Terms of Service which can be found here:
http://tos.ea.com/legalapp/WEBTERMS/US/en/PC/


Thank you for your understanding.


If you feel you have received this suspension in error, please contact us at swtoraccountdisputes@bioware.com


Sincerely,

Protocol Droid M0-T0

Still nothing and over 200 million... did you all start buying stuff off the AH like mad the day after or during? Thats how I see them tracking all this so fast.

One of my guildies got caught. 1 week ban, same thing. He was only level 38 when he did it and only for 1.5 million... hahaha

I havent been banned now a guildie that was suspended (Was told to call CS) THE SAME NIGHT he was doing it... haha

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1-week ban here as well.

168 hours? Just enough time to log back in and pay them for resubs.

They didn't want to pass up the few thousand dollars (at least) @ 15/month (at least for 1 month subs, more for 3+) that they'd lose if the bans were perm, since we know a ton of people did this one.

That info was on the public non-members section of this site, and many others, and floated around guilds. A lot more people probably did this than we think considering how easy it was. It's not like you had to install packet sniffers and other manipulation tools.

So, who is going to be the guinea pig and pay the game resub fee when this ban is lifted to find out what they've done to our characters and their inventory?