16,000 players banned from MMORPG AION

[Zeus]

A community manager has confirmed that 16,000 players have been banned from MMORPG game AION. The reason why such a large amount of users have been banned is due to bottling and illegal virtual gold buying/selling.

<blockquote>As you probably noticed, we've completed a server wide reboot without much notice on a day that we typically don't perform maintenance. It's only fair that we keep you in the loop and make sure you know what's going on. Over the last week we've been working on a list, we've been checking it twice, and today we found out who was naughty or nice. Ban Hammer Claus just came to town. When the servers come back online, nearly 16,000 accounts will have been removed from the game. If your account was banned, please read the following FAQ.</blockquote>

News Source: <a href="http://na.aiononline.com/forums/general/view?articleID=9140" target="_blank">Aiononline</a>

[Neptune]

Yay, finally these f'ers are getting banned. It is annoying to log in and see nothing but spam in the chat windows and have my mailbox full of spam

[DEDDOA]

Good, i wish all companys would do this, it's a pain in the arse getting whispered every few mins on WoW and annoying that new players struggle to mine in the high security systems in Eve-online (or at least it used to be like that with all the belts mined out) due to gold farmers.

The only problem is the damn farmers tend to use hacked accounts so that they can't be tracked or pay actual subscription costs, so a good many people banned are already suffering from being hacked.