At the very least, I wouldn't worry as long as you have the item in your inventory, proving you purchased it, so if it never redeems you have proof to use when contacting support. If it disappears from your steam inventory on launching the game and you still don't get the AC though, then I'd say you definitely got a problem.

fwiw, I read that and assumed the main cannon battery just meant the two frontal guns, because until looking up this quest I didn't know vardersoma actually had a giant cannon like big varder, because I always killed it too quickly for the cannon to pop out.

@gnepyon13 said in Why are y'all surprised you got banned?:

@SuperND420 Makes me wonder if any of them even know anything, for one why would you need to buy meseta? hell theres an NPC dedicated for giving quest that gives lots of it, man I miss TACO days

I assume basically all of them know that the weeklies + the daily quests exist. What makes RMT tempting in games isn't that people don't know you can make a bunch of money in-game if you put forth the effort, it's just that the things you do to make that money are oftentimes boring or time-consuming, and spending IRL money ends up as less of a commitment if you're given the option.

If I did all of today's dailies, it'd get me 500-800k meseta (according to the pso2fleet discord bot), and probably take half an hour or something. Alternatively, I've seen bots advertising meseta at a rate that would get me 10 million for the equivalent of 2 minutes of work at my IRL job. If there was a legal+official way to get meseta at that rate, yeah I would do it. A lot of people probably would, and it's the subset of those people who think they can get away with it/don't care that it's against ToS/don't realize it'll probably get their credit card info stolen/etc that end up buying meseta from bots.

@condor said in Why are y'all surprised you got banned?:

With all that in mind, you should realize that it is hard for someone reviewing your account to understand the real intentions and going through each and every appeal is time consuming, so I guess SEGA decided to perma ban everyone and call it a day.

Sure it's hard, but shouldn't that also be part of the job? If the evidence against someone is circumstantial it seems like the better move to not permaban the potentially innocent player, rather than to just go scorched earth and chalk the mistakes up as collateral damage.

Most online games have "we can disable your account at any point for whatever reason we want" in their ToS in some form just to cover themselves, but that doesn't mean a company should be defended for permabanning people just because they didn't want to put forth the work.

But also, this all hinges on whether or not "all I did was buy from player shops" is actually the truth, for the people who say it is. While I realize that the specifics of what got exploiters banned should be kept secret so that they can't circumvent it, when it comes to something that's potentially a completely innocent behavior like buying from a player shop, yeah I do think SEGA should say something about it to raise awareness. But with how little feedback we've actually got from SEGA about mostly anything, I doubt we'll hear anything about this either (which is honestly the detached treatment that makes me believe it's actually plausible they'd do something like first-strike permabans for buying from bot player shops vs just item deletion).

(Also note that I'm not bashing whichever low-level SEGA employees had to carry out the investigations here, but SEGA's PSO2 Global treatment as a whole. I know the GMs here say they pass along the concerns on the boards, but they probably also lack the authority to make formal statements like this so their hands are tied, like whoever carried out the bans was probably just working on orders from not having sufficient staff to be more thorough or something)

That's kinda surprising, since Mateus is the unofficial RP overflow server for when Balmung (the unofficial RP server) is full. But ERP's everywhere regardless of your server, sometimes people from other servers will even server-hop to advertise their ERP across their datacenter.

@FANtasyStarOnline said in Account suspended permanently:

@n_n Actually, my Alliance leader told us something similar to this! A guy in our Alliance, (name withheld cause I ai'nt a snitch, lol), said he bought as many of certain techs at super low prices early and sold them for a higher price when crafting came around. I don't think he was trying to intentionally fund RMT but... well, he thought he was making shit loads of Meseta legally. Is it possible these other innocent players got caught up in this?

I doubt what he did had an interaction with RMT even unintentionally tbh, that just sounds like playing the market and knowing that most players don't prepare for things even when they know what the future roadmap's like. The people selling those cheap techs are just people offloading all the tons of discs they got in quests, and the people buying them for higher are just the people grinding crafting (which I doubt any RMTer would do since it's a lot of investment into a single bannable account).

@SuperND420 said in Account suspended permanently:

imo sega gave us plenty of warning, play by the rules and be smart don't get banned also why do you whine for every thread to be closed it looks really childish

Take a look at his signature and you'll get why he always makes the posts that'll get him attention, whether bad takes or lock-complaining.

@Kurumi-Tokisaki said in Account suspended permanently:

@Tri-Edge said in Account suspended permanently:

alot of the times, there were other people undercutting the bots. I was buying alot of items for my clan raffle, so of course i bought w/e was cheaper, even if it was like a 10k meseta difference lol. But it's whatever now, they said i can't appeal it, so i'll just be moving on.

You likely bought way too many items that were from bots then. You should know by all the stuff in the forum and what people say in-game on populated lobbies that bots selling items are rampant, other people's shop ads even say don't support the bots, ETC... There's way too much information to miss.

There's also been posts on this forum whenever people bring up shops with massive numbers of items where people just go "oh that's just whales investing in specific items to reduce shop bloat", it seems kind of ridiculous to me to permaban someone from the game rather than issuing a warning or something because they performed a totally legitimate in-game action that happened to interact with someone who happened to be a bot.

If it becomes known that buying from PN names without symbolart gets you banned, what's to stop bots from just randomizing an account name + using a generic symbol art then? Would players just be expected to know what symbolarts bots choose and avoid those shops?

@Zoe said in To all of you level 70+ players not registering lookbooks...:

For some characters, I'd need old mission pass items to catch the vibe of the intended design, for others, the items are available but prohibitively priced and for yet others, the items needed simply don't exist (yet).

Fwiw, I'm pretty sure you only get one lookbook per account, I've been on an alt and checked my lookbook and saw my other character pop up.

So you only need one char to be presentable for the lookbook, and if anyone tries to lookbook your alts they'll just get that one instead.

If you do it through the MS store itself, you'll have to have a secondary steam install and have two copies of the game simultaneously for the link. But if you use the tweaker, and install to a user-controlled location (not windowsapps, not programfiles, just some folder you make in your drive), you can do an install that links to the MS Store and Steam at the same time. So you can log into the MS Store version, get the linker code, exit the game and switch to the Steam version, which takes a few seconds or so, and then log into that version and put in the code. Then since you have your account linked, even if you stop using the tweaker and just go native Steam, you'd still have account access.

Pretty sure the Steam version's supposed to be a lot more stable, but I've also had no issues with the tweaker version ever even before Steam, so I don't know if whatever problems you're having would persist.