CCP Taking Isk from Players?

jpyrich

I had a similar experience with a better resolution.  I sold a time card and shortly after the sale the isk for that time card was removed from my account.  After contacting a GM, I was told that the person who bought the time card was a scammer and they had reversed all transactions made by that account.  My isk was then returned.  The GM that I dealt with was courteous, helpful and apologetic.  If I had gotten no explanation, and then the GM refused to escalate the issue to a senior GM, I would have filed another petition against that GM.



This is not to say that the OP is not telling the truth.  With the way that CCP has been dealing with its customers lately, it's quite likely that it happened just as the OP stated.

Drafell

Unfortunately this is the side effect of external ISK trading, and it can permeate to most tiers of the game. It doesn't matter if the friends were directly involved, but if CCP can trace the origin of the ISK they are within their rights to take action to remove it from the game.

damian7

Originally posted by PnHobbit

Buying isk, expensive.



Getting caught and complaining on the forums, priceless.

being able to read with comprehension, impossible.

damian7

Originally posted by demolishIX


Your friend probably was payed with isk bought with real money,CCP tryes to eliminate illegal isk selling in Eve by adding GTC trade for isk they eliminated quite abit of the illegalities,but some people still buy large ammounts of isk.People that buy alot of isk online usualy buy a 2nd eve account and then start laundering the money in a attempt to hide their tracks and protect their main char.They get the isk on the 2nd account,than they transfer it to 1-2 chars from their other account via trades etc. than finaly it reaches their main account char wich uses it for whatever purposes he pleases.If CCP were to ban the isk seller and isk buyer's account that wouldnt solve much,cause the money is still in the system,soo basicly they have to remove all of the isk that got into the Eve illegaly.Your friend might have being innocent,but CCP cant tell if the last isk destination char is the original buyer's char or just a hard worker.Soo to not directly punish someone not involved they just remove the illegal isk.
If that make any sense... anyway this is how eve isk selers do it (someone posted once somewhere how they bought isk online and shuffled it arround to try to hide his tracks)

amazing they (ccp) can find the time do all that, repeatedly, on numerous suspected folks , but they can't trace back dev spawned t2 bpos, plus actually find all the extra things he did, and take back all the money/advantages that (multiple) staff cheating introduced into the game.

but, what can you say?  a bunch of cheaters on staff and enough people paying realworld money to support their continued cheating.