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Originally Posted by Felix12g
Naw, they wouldn't ban by card. That'd be bad business. Also you're forgetting other uses of the card, 3-4 on a single card to pay for their accounts? All seperate people, not legal to ban them all. That's just one case.
An interesting thing to do however is to flag anybody using the same ip/card/accountinfo if they were banned. They come back, they've got a flag up and take some extra watching or have a monitor set on their account. Their accuracy is too high? Another flag, and a reban. They go get yet another? Webzen licks their lips and watches the money roll in.
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They wouldnt give a damn if 3 or 4 people used the same card, hacking will lose them customers faster than any other issue and all MMOGs come down like a ton of bricks on anyone they catch. Allowing them to resubscribe at the risk of hacking again will mean they will watch the subcriptions roll out and therfore their income.
A full ban on all those options would be reasonable and easy enough to do. If someone is stupid enough to apply for loads of credit cards purely to hack an MMOG then fair enough (despite the fact it will ruin their credit rating and cost them a fortune).
There's a thing called an End User License Agreement ( EULA ) that all MMOGs have, and its been well documented that this can change at any time - for example you have to click accept to it everytime it changes in WoW or any SoE game. There was a lot of fuss surrounding the EULA because it basically means that the developer can do whatever they like, wich is why SoE were able to radically change Star Wars Galaxies, deleting characters and character classes with impunity because there was nothing the player could do about it as they had agreed to an EULA that allowed it. All Webzen have to do is specify their control methods and they are secure.
The loss of 2,3 or 4 accounts over one case of hacking is nothing compared to the loss of hundreds over it because they didnt stop it. Blizzard have regular purges of their accounts, banning as many as 10000 in a single go.