Warning: Proud Beard

[Loziel]

I am sure there are Crackheads all over the world who loath their Crack Dealer for what they have done to them, but I am sure if that dealer comes along and says, hey if you like the shit I was peddling before, your gonna LOVE this new improved shit, they are gonna be all over it. Its the same principle

[hagun]

I am sure there are Crackheads all over the world who loath their Crack Dealer for what they have done to them, but I am sure if that dealer comes along and says, hey if you like the shit I was peddling before, your gonna LOVE this new improved shit, they are gonna be all over it. Its the same principle

Sadly, FFXI is crack and this anology is spot on. FFXI is just bad for us but we all keep coming back..

[BRP]

The thing is, no one cares what crackheads think. That's completely different from Blue Gartr.

[Ruzaki]

Shit is getting out of hand. Time for some "ferocious NA power"?

[Cesaria]

Jesus - they CANNOT fucking implement an insta-ban if you NPC stuff to one character without telling their playerbase... that's ridiculous.

It might explain why my gardening char's been OK so far - only has one of its mules in Bastok and I always go into the choco stables to use the NPC there to sell stuff to because I forgot the Galka was there.

We need to get the ferocious power of the NAs (including Allaka... despite what people may think of it) going here.

[Xellith]

I told my friend about this and he is going to log on and sell it stuff on his main account because he believes its just for trial accounts. I find that funny.

[Spira]

I npc shit to him all the time, first NPC i hit after FoV or a long session of meriting, we tele out and i repatriate..

its usually stacks upon stacks of wind crystals, colibri feathers and lotsa beaks lol

nothings happened to me so far

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Wow.. SE is SO fucking lazy lol wowow.

[Belgaer]

I npc shit to him all the time, first NPC i hit after FoV or a long session of meriting, we tele out and i repatriate..

its usually stacks upon stacks of wind crystals, colibri feathers and lotsa beaks lol

nothings happened to me so far

Same here. This is the NPC I hit after about 9/10 of my meripo/sky/whatever sessions. I only have my main character (no mules or alt's), so it's not like I could be forgetting to check one of those. Maybe it has something to do with the "?" icon? NPC shit there with the ? icon and bam. I dunno. It's probably not limited to this NPC alone. It's likely any quick access NPC in lowbie towns.

[Julian]

I love how in the past they always refused to ban RMT, or whatever else, because they didn't have enough "evidence," and yet, now they have a script to auto ban noobs who use an npc? Cause obviously no one new is gonna start playing and npc stuff to an npc.

[Belgaer]

Well, there are two possibilities here.


1.) They just don't give a shit anymore and changed the ToS so they can do whatever the hell they want and customer service can tell you to stick it and go back to Twittering and PLing their mithra internet bo...girlfriend in game.

or

2.) People are just continuing a rant fad, making up stories about SE's latest scandal to have something to rant about because even they're tired of complaining about SE's late streak of lame updates, but still want to bitch about SE. *catches breath*



You choose.

[Ragnus]

They just don't give a shit anymore and changed the ToS so they can do whatever the hell they want and customer service can tell you to stick it

That's been in the TOS forever.

[Starr]

Honestly what the fuck do they do with the $50M+ a year they make off account fees every year? cus they aren't employing people to work out who is RMT and ban them or not, they have 1 guy making programs like "NPC to Galka NPC = LM 17" and think it's fucking fine. P.S. I closed my accounts this month for the first time in 5 years

[Groovebox]

I sell fish to him all the time since my HP is in Mines. I'd be right there next to the RMT NPCing my fish, and my account is fine. Did the guy on allah post pics or something? Sounds like he's making it up.

[Hyan]

That's been in the TOS forever.

The correct answer must be #2 then?

Sounds about right to me.

[Beave]

I'm 100% positive if there is *any* merit to the OP at all with the ban for npcing items to Proud Bear, it's limited to trial accounts only. I have been using Proud Bear for my npcing purposes for months now, and have yet to see anything happen on my main, or level 5 mules.

[ronin sparthos]

I'm 100% positive if there is *any* merit to the OP at all with the ban for npcing items to Proud Bear, it's limited to trial accounts only. I have been using Proud Bear for my npcing purposes for months now, and have yet to see anything happen on my main, or level 5 mules.

Sucks for any legit players you know... trying to experience XI for the first time.

Probably banned and you'll never know why.

[Pharaun]

I started a new character less than 2 weeks ago and have npc'd tons of stuff to proud beard and not been hit with the ban stick. Not accusing Kaeko of lying about anything, but there has to be some other criteria than just selling to Proud Beard.

[Khamsin]

I started a new character less than 2 weeks ago and have npc'd tons of stuff to proud beard and not been hit with the ban stick. Not accusing Kaeko of lying about anything, but there has to be some other criteria than just selling to Proud Beard.

Well, you have a point. What else did the character do besides what was mentioned in the OP? Is there a more detailed transcript of events? I think it's important to have all the details in this case, no matter how small. Proud Beard may even had nothing to do with it, it's only the action that stood out the most in their memory of events.

Also, were any third party programs used during this time? e.g. fleetool, argus, windower, etc.

[chiyio]

Character name was probably based on "head meet keyboard".