Fraudulent ESO Keys Banned [May 26, 2015, 4:42 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A post on
the Elder Scrolls Online website from last week explains that they've seen a
spike in the use of "fraudulently obtained" digital game keys for
The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel
Unlimited, and are deactivating all game accounts created with "such
stolen keys" beginning today (thanks
HARDOCP). They have a very lengthy list of places to obtain legitimate keys,
and say that they are contacting those whose accounts are being closed with
instructions on how to go straight, albeit with an additional purchase. They
also explain the issue with the keys being revoked:
The companies selling stolen keys make a practice of using stolen credit cards, or misappropriating credit card information from their own customers to buy codes from legitimate retailers. Often these companies have the lowest price available anywhere for the digital item they are selling. Customers who purchase from these vendors are at increased risk for identity theft.
Extreme discounting below the published prices on our website may be a clue that the digital key purchased for the game may have been fraudulently obtained.
Cutter wrote on May 26, 2015, 23:03:
Leave it you people to defend the corps and screw the workin' man trying to catch a break. It's no wonder this is such a shitty world. Perhaps you feel we'd all be better off as slaves instead of the indentured servants we really are.
I know the bigger picture of what your trying to say here but in this context it doesn't work. However yes Bethesda could have a better way to turn these potential customers into real ones. I don't think banning customers' keys outright is always in their best interest either.
Maybe throwing them onto a low performing/cheap/laggy server is better than banning them, or maybe there's another better way to deal with these situations. From a marketing perspective, these users have expressed interest in the product. They are high probability customers.
Perpetual debt is slavery.
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