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How I got pwned by BioWare OR a REAL reason to unsub

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How I got pwned by BioWare OR a REAL reason to unsub

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Kilora
05.21.2013 , 10:54 AM | #71
Quote: Originally Posted by Gradivus View Post
This is truly awful. Painful to read. I love this game to death but if something like that happened to me an I was waved off by support like that, I'd quit as well.
I do hope someone from Bioware reads this and it gets settled, though. Otherwise, it's really inexcusably bad service. No matter what the companies policies are - that's inexcusable.
No, it isn't. The policy is well laid out, and the OPs post doesn't even sound realistic.

But, as others have said -- plenty of people have had items restored with very little hassle. If they are actually saying there are no logs of him having the items, guess what?

It means he never had the items.

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HoloTweed
05.21.2013 , 11:15 AM | #72
Quote: Originally Posted by Kontraz View Post
I worked customer service for a large corporation for six years. Yes, some of it is up to the CSR. However, if policy enforced is not identical (or nearly so) then it is a viable claim for discrimination or cherry picking, neither of which bodes well and is potentially illegal, pending the exact details of the T&S
Discrimination? You're REALLLLLLY reaching to pull that out of your helmet.

Not likely.

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Pistols
05.21.2013 , 11:23 AM | #73
And another subscriber lost...sorry to hear OP, but don't blame you.

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MSchuyler
05.21.2013 , 11:33 AM | #74
When you go on vacation you take care of stuff first. You turn out the lights, maybe turn down the furnace. You make sure bills that will be coming due while you're gone are taken care of. You hire someone to come in once a day and feed the cats. You make sure the windows are closed and the doors are locked. You take care of business.

But you DIDN'T take care of business, did you. You just left. And your claim is fishy. The maximum amount of time you can put something up on the GTN is 2 days. After that it gets mailed back to you. Lots of people say you should never put anything on GTN for more than one day because it's too easy for someone else to undercut you. In any case, it may be that your mail got wiped, but that's not what you said. You said it disappeared off the GTN. And that makes no sense.

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hippiechick
05.21.2013 , 12:01 PM | #75
Quote: Originally Posted by chuixupu View Post
Some situations are easier to deal with then others when it comes to lost loot. Any time that I've had an item accidentally get deleted or lost, I've had them restored. Heck, they even gave handing my guild out gear and coms through the mail last week because a boss bugged out and vanished after it died.

It seems like stuff getting lost in the mail tricky. Recently in WoW, I had mailed off a bunch of Heirloom gear to alts, forgot to pick some of them up, and they vanished. The GMs would not restore them to me for the same reasons (couldn't prove they exist). I didn't unsub from WoW because of that, though it sucked. I twas ultimately my own fault for not retrieving the items.
In wow the mail sits for 30 days, then goes back to the sender for another 30 days. So you must have left it sit for that long. That being said Ive found Blizzard CS to be the best in the industry. And Ive played just about every title out there. The CS here isnt the worst, for sure, but its not that great either. They should have done SOMEthing for him....

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chuixupu
05.21.2013 , 12:09 PM | #76
Quote: Originally Posted by hippiechick View Post
In wow the mail sits for 30 days, then goes back to the sender for another 30 days.
Mail goes back to the original sender in SWTOR too. But in the OP's case, mail coming back from the GTN has no where to go back to.

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So you must have left it sit for that long.
Yeah, that's what happens when you play too many alts and forget about them, lol.

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That being said Ive found Blizzard CS to be the best in the industry. And Ive played just about every title out there. The CS here isnt the worst, for sure, but its not that great either. They should have done SOMEthing for him....

M
My in-game CS experiences between wow and swtor have honestly been about the same. Blizzard is definitely much better over the phone, though.
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Athrandiel
05.21.2013 , 12:10 PM | #77
Quote: Originally Posted by SleepyJoeFriday View Post
The odd thing here though is that items posted to you by Bioware remain in your mail folder seemingly forever and yet any item mailed by a player gets removed after 30 days.

As for people saying that it's the OPs fault for not removing items from GTN, get real.
We don't know the reasons why the OP was unable to play SWTOR within that 30 day period, but real life wins every time.
true..and what happened sux.. but 30 day mail deletion is here forever and also in other mmo's so u cant blame bioware... its a missfortune that he put it up just before going...

Also dont be mad but i dont believe the 30+ day trip was THAT urgent that did not have time to log on and cancel everything..u just havent remembered
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Shoogli
05.21.2013 , 12:18 PM | #78
Quote: Originally Posted by iFruit View Post
I'll post the 4th and last ticket when I get home.
Regardless of the result I'll make screenies of all four and post them here afterwards.
I don't need to lie to get anything I want, but I certainly don't tolerate being had like this either.
If you have hit the unsub button maybe your 4th ticket will now go through in a more positive way for you am guessing...

Do tell us if it happens, am curious about it...
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AshlaBoga
05.21.2013 , 12:26 PM | #79
Quote: Originally Posted by Kontraz View Post
would it be possible to get more info on this? Such as the CSR name, ticket number, server, etc? If they are able to do it at will for some players, but refuse to for others, that is discrimination and a breach of T&C on Bioware's part.
I'll look into to it for you.
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Omisri
05.21.2013 , 01:05 PM | #80
I had a stack of those cartel market certificates completely vanish after I tried to ctrl-click an armor piece in my inventory that was slightly covered by the dressing room window. Unknowing that it had selected this stack of certs instead I also clicked into the distance to clear my current target. as I clicked I saw the items selected vanish. No "do you want to destroy these" message box... Just gone.

I filed a ticket askin if they could be restored and the first CS I got said "we have no record of you receiving these items, thanks for playing!

I filled another ticket and the second CS I got, within the hour, came back and said "We see that you had them and then our records show that they just vanished. We don't know where they ended up. We have refunded your" etc etc etc

Guess it depends who you end up speaking to. At my work place if you get through to my colleague they will forget you can pull a report from X and instead pull from Y on the database
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