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Wicaa
Member Posts: 101
And the reason is simple.
GOA the Company has fraudulently taken money out of peoples accounts too many times and has been investigated by the big banks. I myself work in Fraud and GOA is scaled to Red/Black meaning that banks now do not deal with this company for fear of fraud on their customers accounts.
http://forums.freddyshouse.com/general-discussion18/223639-fraud-investigation.html
So you will go out and buy your big box of warhammer but won't be able to play it because your bank will refuse to hand over your money for it.
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We won't be able to play it... now there's a new one
Get real wic.
GoA like most other company have the billing handeled by somebody else. What actualyu happened there has ofcource been warped and twisted by the flame monkeys.
Listening to and believing any flames posted on Freddys is like thinking the VN boards are a place of usefull informative infomation. Goa have cocked up alot in the past, but there not fruadsters.
Come back when you got real sources, mate.
Wic does have a point, although this is new information to me. Awhile back, SOE was doing the same thing to people's accounts after people had cancelled their accounts. Certain banks and Credit unions would actually hault processing of payment before a confirmation e-mail or phone call was sent out to the bank member.
Now I don't know if anyone else has had notification of this but in response to this SOE has also banned some accounts saying their was a problem with fraudelent billings (was listed on their site also under account thefts) so it is a possibility that this could be true.
Ah, the fun of buying services which do not have a physical presence over the internet via a credit card. Where a company charges you 3 times for somethign instead of once (and then you complain to your bank) and where people buy it once and then complain to the bank once again, to get their money back
A lot of companies that were providing services over the internet(especially during the boom of internet aroudn mid to late 90's) lost their merchant accounts. So meh, besides, 3rd party companies will step in to process credit cards even if that's true, not really a problem lol.
Yes, goa will sell war boxes but won't be able to get payment from your cc and as such won't be able to operate... yes right, aside from the fact they are doign that just fine with daoc, you'd think goa has smarter people in control than thread starter so they were on top of this long before thread starter even learned about this "problem"
I am using that source because I cannot post sensitive data from my bank for fear of being investigated myself. What I can say is what I originally posted.
GOA has made a hatchet job of at least in my experience the UK European servers. They do not have the mental capacity/resources/attitude to run the Warhammer EU UK servers. The DAOC Eu UK Servers do not have 30 people capped prime-time. It is a ghost town.
If I play the game I will get a US box, this is from my and others EU UK experience of the company. I am just here warning those from my country not to get involved for many reasons including the very serious billing issue. I warned you here first.
The EU servers will probably serve the french and germans better but there is no good reason why people like now should not play on Mythics US servers.
Sorry not once have i had a problem with my billing on the Europe servers, no idea what your on about
I am using that source because I cannot post sensitive data from my bank for fear of being investigated myself. What I can say is what I originally posted.
GOA has made a hatchet job of at least in my experience the UK European servers. They do not have the mental capacity/resources/attitude to run the Warhammer EU UK servers. The DAOC Eu UK Servers do not have 30 people capped prime-time. It is a ghost town.
If I play the game I will get a US box, this is from my and others EU UK experience of the company. I am just here warning those from my country not to get involved for many reasons including the very serious billing issue. I warned you here first.
The EU servers will probably serve the french and germans better but there is no good reason why people like now should not play on Mythics US servers.
What no more than 30 people? please i was on about 3 months ago and there was at peak time about 1000-1500 eriously your making half of this up
I do remember GOA having problems before but from what I remember it was a very specific game and affected what overall is a small percentage of customers. Don't kid yourself if banks had to pay back tons of money to thousands of people they would have taken GOA to court to reclaim their losses.Also if this was the case GOA would have simply folded by now because if banks refuse to deal with them they don't make a profit, pretty simple economics really.
I've never had a problem with them and like someone else said the whole incident was blown out of proportion by flame monkeys and trolls. Although I did have a major issue with my WoW account which was cancelled THREE times but kept renewing until I got the bank to stop the payments, got my money back from the bank but Blizzard (aka the Gods of MMO
) still deny any problems.
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for sure i won't play WAR on EU servers , i won't make this mistake again .( i played LOTRO on EU , now i m playing on US , and u can compare the feeling , much easy find partys for quest , much more players involved in PvP and crafting industry is more than ok on the US )
First , customer support suks on EU , second u will always see much more players on an US server than EU one . Also why should i pay 12 (almost20$)euros/ month when i can play on US and pay only 12$ .I hope many europeans players will chose to play on the US one.
I know US version is not available for EU but there many websites who are providing CD-keys ( or will , when they will be available) and will give the game via download , and same if u won't be able to pay with credit card u can buy game time cards , bacause will be a key and even if u purchase from US store they will provide the key in u e-mail
So i hope i will see a lot of eu players on the us servers .
PS: if u are from EU and having problems getting the US version of the game , send me a message and i will tell u online stores from where u can get the US version. I m not saying in here cause i don't want to make advertise .
After having experienced the intolerable crappy european website, I really don't feel like writing my card number in there.
The thread you are quoting begins with a post on 25th October 2007 and on the very last page the very last post is dated 20th November 2007.
As far as I can tell, you are trying to resurrect some year old topic on a message board and declaring it "news".
I'm sorry, but you are obviously trolling.
Didn't those those guys say they did a complete reorganization after all those problems?