Following this reasoning, all of the early birds from Malaysia who have been playing WOW since launch is guilty of this. It is no great difficulty to write a script to check account create date and cross reference it to IP address which would unearth all of those guys "circumventing the valid account procedure".

Continuing on from this logic, it will also mean that all the European account holders who signed up before the Euro servers where opened are also in violation of this rule and could also be banned, including American troops serving overseas logging into US servers. Would be a pretty big hoohaa if they did that, I would imagine.

Anyway, my point is that they can very easily catch and ban us all but they have not done so, and I belief, it wont be any time soon unless some big stink occurs to make them want to actively kick us out, e.g. tons of farmers with MY IP addresses causing problems and affecting their business.

Personally I think your case is that of a company whose customers have grown far beyond what they could have imagined and just got themselves confused with their own rules. Since the rest of us escaped, it would be safe to assume that is part of the (new?) vetting procedure for new accounts only and person doing the vetting followed the letter of the agreement a little too accurately.

To be fair, it is not stated implicitly whether Malaysia is considered to be part of "Singapore" mentioned in the Terms of Service even though there is an official distributor for WOW here. Anything which is not stated implicitly is often the cause for confusion - this happens in other businesses too, not just online games.

This post has been edited by limsk: Mar 22 2007, 06:03 PM

No offense, dennis but that rant about the server community is better served in another topic.

There are dumb employees in every company large or small that damage their reputations. I truly believe thats what happened to you. I dont think there is any intentional bullying here. Some dumbass employee who screwed up your account after getting confused by the rules of the free Trial pass which apparently is only applicable in those countries specifically named in the ToS.

You are the victim here and absolutely have the right to be angry and complain about the way you were treated. We really sympathize with you, but let's keep the discussion coherent and keep the prosecution complex out of it. To label Americans as crass and bullying is just ranting. Just like if we were to call all Indonesians criminals, or all Chinese cheats and liars, or all Malaysians rude and kiasu. That sort of attitude helps nobody and does you no credit.

This post has been edited by limsk: Mar 23 2007, 10:24 AM