Players who’ve bought their chars…Follow

This is an honest question, not a flame or request to flame ppl that you think are idiots.

Last night I was pt’ing in Gar. Citadel’s basement with my 49thf. The party had just formed and when we arrived we set up a voke order… first voker was a lvl 50 DRK.

For the first 6 fights the DRK wouldn’t voke and hate ended up all over the place. We tried to communicate with him but there was no reply. (I do believe he was speaking English when we gathered in Jeuno) He would also keep soloing his WS even though he was a part of the SC.

We eventually got fed up and kicked him… strange thing is, he just stood there for about 10 min after we kicked him and starting to do emotes/says from a newbie macro palette. It was random stuff too like ‘I’m sorry I want to play solo right now’, /fume, /yes, no etc. and we weren’t even talking to him. Then finally he put his flag up.

My first thought is that he was a bot. I’ve seen the bot forums and know that they can get pretty advanced even to the point of lvl’ing a char to lvl 14 solo w/o even being at the keyboard. Although I’ve never heard of one created for that high of a lvl.

But then my second thought was that maybe he had bought his char from IGN or Ebay or something and just didn’t know how to play.

So my question is (since I’m new to the server) do any of you know of any players/chars that said they were quitting the game and the a few months later you see him/her walking around again maybe under different ownership?

I have to admit that yes I did purchase my account. Here's how I did it:

I went to my local video game store and bought the pc version of FFXI. Then I took that home and install it into my pc(which I also purchased) and gave my visa number to SE so that I can actually access FFXI. Then after having trouble with {Connection Problems}, I did the 3 day download. Then what do I find? That I got screwed over!! All I had was 6 level 1 jobs, some crappy level 1 Hume gear, a white belt and about 50 gil(maybe 60, I can't remember).

So why didn't I start out with a level 49 DRK? I mean come on...I didn't even have access to a level1 DRK much less a level 49.

What do you guys think? Should I call the store that I bought it from and ask for a trade or my money back? Or should I call SE and find out why I got screwed over?

(Please don't flame me for buying my account....it was on honest mistake.)

EDIT: I was kidding. This post was a joke.

Edited, Wed Feb 23 12:24:56 2005 by cyanjoeblake

I know someone who either gave their account away or got it stolen or sold it.

Kagemune was like 40something RDM I think when she was engaged to Kimary in game and they were getting their wedding date set. Then she went on vacation irl which we all knew about and then like a week later we see her running around and she doesn't know anyone or anything. They then said that the person who previously owned the account doesn't own it anymore. Now its some guy who owns it... we still dunno wtf happened.

damn... i should have sold my 70WHM with Moon Bauble/Raise 3, huh? bah, oh well. guess the US Army will be paying my rent yet another month. *sigh*

Funny, the RDM that i was in 2 parties with late night on the weekend, either had no clue how to play or was the dumbest player of all time.

Had no clue what refresh was, and almost no gear.

Maybe thats why i woke up monday and had 3K less experience :(

I was in Kuftal tunnel yesteday and this 52drk/war didnt talk a lick of english and didn't seem to know anything he was doing, was still Rank 1 and didn't even know how to use Last Resort and a TP report.
He had to have bought his account.

This was posted on the VN boards:

ok, i recently purchased this character BUT IM NOT A NOOB! lol i came from garuda a was a lvl 59 drk and i was sad to go but it was time to move on! i was originally from this server but i quit at lvl 19 of course im sure many of you know me lol. My character name was denkou and i was a scammer which i regret being and i am sorry for all the ppl i scammed while here but i paid them all back and gave all the stuff back. Ladyofhonor remembers me stealing her 10k in windy lol which im sorry for lol i was an idiot. the last person to own this account was omfg and from what i heard he was a jerk yet i really dont know lol. i love this server a lot and i am looking foward to playing with everyone on it and i could also use a pal to show me around and tell me a bit about the server =). im a nice guy once you get to know me and i am also lookin for a HNM LS =). if anyone needs help with anything (no i will not lend out gil lol) i will be glad to assist you. =)


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uh, well this guy is gonna have fun with this account he paid proably 600-800 dollars for, he is getting flamed like crazy on VN board.

Zack aka OMFG moved his character during the Remora switch. Supposedly, his account was hacked. They stole his Gil, threw away his AF, etc. He then, quit and got rid of his character. Then he started playing again. Before I know it, he was level 75. He said he didn't but it seems as if he bought that character. He quit again and sold his account...again.

I don't understand people like this. I talk to Zack outside of FFXI but I try not to talk to him about it because I don't want to butt into his business and bombard him with questions like "What really happened" and such.