Banned From Funcom Forums

I guess Funcom doesn’t care to take helpful feedback regarding their game. This is probably why their stock has dropped from nearly $50 per share down to $4 per share.

Message from Funcom Forums

It is funny though that any post pertaining to particular characters still get nuked, I saw posts like “Hey William, I would like to duel you later tonight” get nuked. I was also amused by the floods of secondary and trinary posts asking where certain threads were, even posts that were along the lines of ‘Hey everybody, did you know heartseeker bow damage is different in 1.5″

I find it hilarious the petty games Funcom playing when they could be spending their remaining operating hours on something usefull; perhaps say, on how to fix Age of Conan?

And while on the topic of how Funcom handles cheaters and exploiters in this game, here is an email I received from one of their GM’s in response to my intial video footage ( 30+ minutes worth ) of Velox Nex exploiting the PVP xp system….

Subject: [Funcom Support #1100084630] Velox Nex
From: “Funcom Customer Support”@rt3.funcom.com

Greetings,

Thank you for contacting Age of Conan Exploits Team. I’m afraid the links you provided did not allow me to view the information. If you could please reply with a different link I will be more than happy to look into this matter.

Rest assured that we are constantly investigating and keeping our eye out for new exploits in Age of Conan. We are working hard to prevent the use of exploits to maintain a level playing field for all our players. A large part of our investigation process comes from reports from players.

If you do encounter any issues you believe to be an exploit/program you wish to report, please let us know and we will be happy to look into them. Should you require additional assistance or would like to provide more information on this matter, please reply to this email without changing the subject line.

Regards,

William/GM-Baenne
Funcom Customer Service – Exploits
http://www.ageofconan.com
http://www.anarchy-online.com
http://www.funcom.com

This was no problem for me, I sent them a another message with updated links, and got this response almost immediately

Subject: [Funcom Support #1100084630] Velox Nex
From: “Funcom Customer Support”@rt3.funcom.com

I’m afraid will be unable to provide you with a definitive answer on this issue. Our Rules of Conduct can be found here:

http://support.ageofconan.com/article.php?id=169

and more specifically the Exploitation section is as follows: . . . [LONG EXCERPT REMOVED]

And here is some more email from Funcom regarding the almost unanimously agreed upon cheater Lhisborn:

Subject: [Funcom Support #1100087718] LHISBORN
From: “Funcom Customer Support”@rt3.funcom.com

Greetings,

Thank you for contacting Age of Conan Exploits Team. Rest assured that we are constantly investigating and keeping our eye out for new exploits in Age of Conan. We are working hard to prevent the use of exploits to maintain a level playing field for all our players. A large part of our investigation process comes from reports from players.

If you do encounter any issues you believe to be an exploit/program you wish to report, please let us know and we will be happy to look into them. Should you require additional assistance or would like to provide more information on this matter, please reply to this email without
changing the subject line.

Regards,

William/GM-Baenne
Funcom Customer Service – Exploits
http://www.ageofconan.com
http://www.anarchy-online.com
http://www.funcom.com

And when I got even MORE concrete footage against Lhisborn I received another update from our all too familiar friend:

Subject: [Funcom Support #1100087718] LHISBORN
From: “Funcom Customer Support”@rt3.funcom.com

I can assure you that this matter is being looked into. If there are any other players that you feel require investigation, or if there is any additional information you would like to provide please reply, and I will do all I can to confirm your claims.

Regards,

William/GM-Baenne
Funcom Customer Service – Exploits
http://www.ageofconan.com
http://www.anarchy-online.com
http://www.funcom.com

And it has now almost been a solid month, Lhisborn is seen logged in every day and Velox continues to bot. It has gotten so bad that on a nightly basis I can see 50 toons in purple lotus swamp at 4am PST, around 20 in outflow, around 15 in cannibal caves, and even more in Poitan and Lacheish no doubt botting as well….

But rest assured every body, Funcom is ‘investigating and the matter is being looked into’

Needless to say I will still make posts to CSI : Hyboria